Things We Didn’t See Today: The Apparently Amazing Avengers: Infinity War Footage

Published On: Sat, Jul 15th, 2017

Entertainment | By admin

At the D23 Expo, Disney’s massive biannual meeting of the Official Disney Fan Club, Marvel Studios shared some footage of Thanos battling the Avengers from Avengers: Infinity War. Unlike many other D23 reveals, it wasn’t simultaneously broadcast online – but it was apparently awesome. io9 said it “blows away even your wildest expectations“. MTV.com called it “spectacular,” and Polgyon wrote that “the Marvel we’ve dreamt of for a decade is real.” So…I guess this is a good sign?

If you’d like to read a full summary of the footage (it isn’t super spoiler-y, but I know people’s mileage varies), you can check out io9’s write-up or Vulture’s.

Disney went all-out today for the D23 Expo, so I apologize that the rest of these bullets are also mostly about Disney properties.

Despite how “difficult” some racists thought it might be, Disney’s live-action Aladdin has found its title character in Mena Massoud. Naomi Scott (Power Rangers) will play Jasmine, and Will Smith will play the Genie. (via Entertainment Weekly)
Production has begun on the live-action Mulan, but its release date was pushed back to accommodate a Nutcracker remake in which Misty Copeland will play the lead ballerina. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
NPR workers are reportedly close to a strike after management unveiled some pretty terrible proposed cuts. You can also learn more about the staff’s concerns and demands under the hashtag #WeMakeNPR
Disney also released a teaser for Mary Poppins.

Emily Blunt is Mary Poppins in the upcoming sequel, #MaryPoppinsReturns. The brand new film opens in theatres December 2018. #D23Expo pic.twitter.com/egxozrpRbr

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) July 15, 2017
Luc Besson is already working on two sequels to Valerian. “I’m just happy to write it,” he told Nerdist. “I’m enjoying writing it. So I don’t even wait. I’m just writing for myself. I finished the [sequel] already, then I [got] bored a month ago, so I said ‘let’s write the third.’”