Sneak Peek Of Avengers: Infinity War Played At D23 This Past Weekend

While I'd like to say that I was able to head over to California this past weekend for D23, I unfortunately was on the other side of the country.  It sounds like the people that were able to go were treated to a sneak peek of next year's Avengers: Infinity War and it was mind blowing.  One person that was able to see it was Eric Eisenberg, who writes for Cinemablend.com, and he broke everything down from start to finish.  Here it is in his own words:

Following a quick look back at the Marvel movies of the past, the footage began with the Guardians of the Galaxy flying out in space, with Mantis (Pom Klementeiff) telling the group that they are arriving at their destination. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) warns everyone to put on their game faces thanks to the danger they may face -- but as they slow down they realize that they're not seeing what they expect to see. Instead, the Milano arrives to space filled with destruction -- and the group is surprised when a body hits their windshield. Rocket screams, "Wipers, wipers!' but this is no ordinary body: it's none other than the God of Thunder, Thor (Chris Hemsworth).

Thor, who is still unconscious, is brought into the ship and put down on a table, and Mantis uses her abilities to wake the Asgardian up. As she does, he rockets up from the table, and has a serious look of concern across his face, asking "Who the hell are you guys?" As they continue to fly through space, Thor joins Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) in one of the ship's portholes, and as they look out, the former mutters, "Something is very wrong."

From there, the footage gave us a closer look at some of the other major things happening in the Marvel Universe -- primarily wrapped around the image of a giant ship seemingly crashing towards Earth. We hear a voice (possibly Mantis) explain that "Death follows him like a shadow." We see Loki (Tom Hiddleston) presenting the Tesseract like a prize finally won; the hair on the arm of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) standing on end as his spider-sense tingles while riding the bus; and the voice of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) explain that the one advantage they have is that "he's coming to us." As the aforementioned ship continues to fall, we hear some voice-over from Thanos (Josh Brolin), who notes "Fun really isn't something one considers while balancing the universe, but this does put a smile on my face."

As we see a few more clips, including Gamora (Zoe Saldana) in what appears to be the destroyed museum of The Collector, and Star-Lord letting out a seriously-concerned, "Oh man," we see a black cloud form with blue electricity around it. It's from this shadow that the Mad Titan exits. Thanos has arrived on Earth.

Getting seriously dramatic and thrilling, the footage got into some of the action, and it looks dark and intense -- from Star-Lord jumping around on what looks like platforms that Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is generating, to Spider-Man not wearing his normal costume, but instead the specially designed armor featured at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming. As Thanos says, "I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. But you'll fail all the same," we then see Captain America (Chris Evans) for the first time, sporting a heavy beard. A dejected, defeated, de-masked Peter Parker sits on the battlefield with Iron Man saying, "Tony, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, " and in a one-on-one battles with Thanos we watch Thor's head get basically palmed by the Mad Titan and twisted, and Iron Man get punched crazy hard.

The big showstopper arrived at the end of the footage, however, as we finally got to see the full power of Thanos. While people have joked about him just being a purple alien who sits on a throne, the last shot fully demonstrated his amazing power, as he literally pulls a planet/moon out of the sky and creates a giant wave of meteors raining towards Earth. "Run from it," Thanos says, "But destiny still arrives."


I would have loved to let you know what I thought in my own words, but since I haven't seen it yet, I'd like to thank Eisenberg for doing such a great job of describing it to all of his readers.  He's a great fan boy, and if you ever see his name come up, make sure you read what he's writing.  He also said that when the trailer was finished, his hands were trembling and his mouth was agape from his amazement at what he just saw.  It sounds like the Russo brothers have seriously outdone themselves with this film.


Avengers: Infinity War arrives in theaters on May 4, 2018.