A packed house at D23 Saturday watched most of the Avengers actors (and a few Guardians of the Galaxy cast members) take the stage with Marvel's Kevin Feige "Infinity War" and co-director Joe Russo to unveil our first look at next summer's blockbuster. The footage was epic, brutal, intense, violent AF, and, awesome.
Here's what we saw:
The clip opened with the Guardians aboard the Milano, flying through a bright part of the galaxy that is home to what looks like wrecked planets. Mantis says "We are arriving." Star-Lord, at the controls, peers out of the windshield and quips: "Don't forget: this might be dangerous, so let's put on our mean faces."
Our favorite shot comes next, when we find Peter Parker riding on a school bus and his "Spidey sense" manifests as the hairs on his arms sticking straight up. Iron Man suits up among the Guardians as Tony says: "We have one advantage... he's coming to us."
"He" is Thanos, who arrives in a steel spacecraft that looks like vertical boomarang. It stabs down through a yellow sky over a ruined planet, as giant metal rigs seem to protrude from the planet's surface. Cue the ominous music and Thanos' booming voiceover.
The final moments that really brought on the nerd shakes were: An unmasked Spider-Man, on the ground, wet eyes locked on Tony as the fallen hero says "I'm sorry." Thanos vice-grips Thor's head, and squeezes it. Thanos punches Iron Man in the face, launching him out of frame. Soon, a maskless and bloody Iron Man looks on as Thanos uses his badass Power Glove (aka the Infinity Gauntlet) to summon what looks like the moon out of the sky. Why? So he can use it to pummel the Avengers with as the planetoid crashes into the atmosphere.
Aaaaaand mic drop. The first half of "Infinity War" hits theaters May 2018.
