Avengers: Infinity War oli pitkä elokuva, mutta alkuperäisen suunnitelman mukaan sen piti olla vielä pidempi. Tarkoituksena oli aloittaa leffa 45 minuutin mittaisella jaksolla, jossa keskiössä olisi ollut Josh Brolinin Thanos.
Asian paljasti Thanosin luoja Jim Starlin Near Mint Condition -podcastissa, josta uutisoi Collider. Jaksossa Thanos sai itselleen sen ensimmäisen Infinity Stonen. Kuvaukset tehtiin, mutta tarvittavia erikoistehosteita ei pätkään tehty.
"But about a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe saying, 'the 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we had it cut.' There was a whole sequence of him getting the first gem and they had to cut that out. They shot it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn't want the movie to be as long as the second one [Endgame] was. They didn't realize it was going to be quite the hit it was."
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