Avengers: Infinity War trailer: An intergalactic threat looks set to end the Marvel Cinematic Universe

The team are ready for battle with long-teased baddie Thanos
Ben Travis29 November 2017
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Marvel has released the first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War – and it’s full of epic action.

The third film in the comic studio’s superhero team-up series teases high stakes, with an intergalactic threat that looks set to end the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it.

Infinity War pitches the Avengers – Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and more – against long-teased baddie Thanos, a giant purple cosmic warlord.

Thanos, played by Josh Brolin, is aiming to collect the infinity stones, a series of MacGuffins featured in previous Marvel movies, which will grant him immeasurable power.

The conflict looks to have dramatic consequences. The trailer teases a broken-looking Tony Stark, a dire fate for The Vision, and an epic battle on the fields of Black Panther’s fictional African nation Wakanda.

Elsewhere, the film is set to bring together recent additions to the Marvel universe, with Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner coming face-to-face with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange, and Thor meeting the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Meanwhile, Peter Parker seems to have developed Spider-senses, Loki looks to be walking in a pile of Asgardian corpses, and a self-exiled Captain America is back – with a beard.

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It’s epic stuff – and fans will get to see a whole lot more when the film arrives in cinemas on April 24 next year.

While Infinity War will set-up the long-awaited face-off between the Avengers, Guardians, and Thanos, the conflict is due to be concluded in an as-yet-untitled Avengers sequel in 2019.

Marvel Studios’ head honcho Kevin Feige has stated that Avengers 4 will be a major turning point for the franchise.

In the Marvel-themed cover story of the new Vanity Fair, Feige promised: “There will be two distinct periods. Everything before Avengers 4 and everything after.”

Avengers: Infinity War arrives in cinemas on April 24, 2018

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