Yesterday, during an interview on the red carpet for the UK premiere ofGuardians of the Galaxy 2, actress Zoe Saldana seemingly revealed the mysterious title for the currently untitledAvengers sequel, which was previously known asAvengers: Infinity War Part 2. It has long been confirmed that all of the Guardians will return inInfinity War. The actress teased that the Guardians wrapped their part in Infinity War, adding that they’ll be back for “Infinity Gauntlet” later this year. While it certainly did seem like the actress let the secretive title slip, herGuardians 2director confirmed that actually isn’t the case.
After the premiere, during the press junket,Yahoo! Movies UKcaught up withGuardians 2director James Gunn, who also serves as an executive producer on theInfinity War movies. The director/producer didn’t hear that Zoe Saldana seemingly let the title slip on the red carpet, and when asked about the Infinity Gauntlet title, the director confirmed that is not the actual title. Here’s what the executive producer had to say, explaining that he thinks the actress merely misspoke.
“It’s not the title. My guess is that Zoe just misspoke. I’ll talk to Zoe today, but I would imagine that is just Zoe misspeaking and sayingInfinity Gauntletinstead ofInfinity War.”
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed yesterday that theAvengers 4 titlehasn’t been revealed yet because it is actually a rather huge spoiler forAvengers: Infinity War. It’s possible that the title won’t be unveiled until the post-credits scene ofInfinity War. Along with their regular tradition of debuting fun post-credits scenes, there are often brief messages after these scenes, stating that a particular character or a group of characters “will return.” At times, that message is followed by the title of a particular movie, and it seems that this brief post-credits message could be the perfect place to unveil the full title, possibly even the official logo for thisAvengerssequel. It hasn’t been confirmed that the title will be revealed here, but it’s certainly plausible.
Many fans thought theInfinity Gauntlettitle whichZoe Saldanainadvertently “leaked” did make sense. There are theories that perhaps the first movie would follow the epic battle between theMarvel Cinematic Universe heroesand Thanos (Josh Brolin) to merely gather all of the Infinity Stones, which could end with Thanos finally placing all of these Stones within the Infinity Gauntlet, setting up the epic sequel with the Mad Titan unleashing this incredible power upon the world. Still, we already know that Thanos has the Infinity Gauntlet, from the post-credits scene ofAvengers: Age of Ultron, so just naming the movieAvengers: Infinity Gauntletdoesn’t necessarily seem to be a huge spoiler, as Kevin Feige had previously suggested.
It was also recently confirmed that bothAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4will be shot separately, although both movies were originally conceived to be shot at the same time over what was believed to be an epic shoot that would span roughly nine months. Instead,Infinity Waris currently shooting now, and there will be a small break after that wraps beforeAvengers 4gets started, withKevin Feigerevealing that it was too complicated to “cross-board” both stories at once. While it may be quite some time before we find out theAvengers 4title, at least we know now that it isn’tAvengers: Infinity Gauntlet.
