We all remember how it happened. Thanos snapped his fingers. Marvel’s biggest heroes disappeared into ashes. Half the universe disappeared. Evil won the day.
That’s how “Avengers: Infinity War” ended. And, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, it was a complete ending and not a cliffhanger.
Feige opened up about the end of the film in the new book “Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame — The Art of the Movie,” discussing how the movie has a complete ending.
“One of the reasons why we don’t consider Infinity War a cliffhanger is because the end of the movie is not the heroes disappearing,” he said in the book, according to ComicBook.com. “The end of the movie is Thanos content on a planet in a rather shockingly idyllic environment doing exactly what he told us he would do: sit and look upon a grateful universe. He succeeded, and that’s the end of the film. Will the Avengers try and stop him? Maybe. They’ll try. But they didn’t have much luck before, and I don’t think he’s worried that they’re going to have much luck now.”
“Avengers: Endgame” writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told Backstory Magazine that Feige never wanted to see the “Avengers” films split into part one or part two, as reported by the Deseret News. He wanted them to be their own complete story, which is why “Infinity War” doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.
“No, the idea was to reinforce that this was a kind of reverse hero’s journey and we wanted to tag that it’s not a cliffhanger,” McFeely said. “Everything ended, and in fact it ended really well for the guy who was driving the story (Thanos).”
Markus agreed.
“The hero won, and he got to retire to his shack — just like every cop who’s one week away from retirement (in a movie) and usually gets killed,” he said. “Thanos made it all the way. He got his little fishing post.”