{"id":18755,"date":"2015-04-08T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=18755"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:31:52","slug":"russo-brothers-to-direct-avengers-infinity-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/russo-brothers-to-direct-avengers-infinity-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe and Anthony Russo Infinitely Join with Marvel Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=age+of+ultron&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em><\/a> comes out in less than a month as the last big Marvel team-up he helms (at least for now). Rumored for months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Marvel&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marvel<\/strong><\/a> has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/news\/movies\/24399\/joe_anthony_russo_to_direct_2-part_marvels_avengers_infinity_war_event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">confirmed<\/a> that <strong>Joe and Anthony Russo<\/strong> will direct <em><strong>Avengers: Infinity War \u2013 Parts 1 and 2<\/strong><\/em>, set to come out in May 2018 and 2019, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers directed 2014&#8217;s popular <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/em> and are currently working on <em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em>. They&#8217;re an obvious choice for the next <em>Avengers<\/em> films, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/anthony-and-joe-russo-are-best-marvel-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we couldn&#8217;t be more excited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Civil War,<\/em> the Russo brothers will have plenty of superhero team-up experience before <em>Infinity War<\/em>. Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Clint Barton are all set to appear in <i>Civil War<\/i> so far, as well as introducing T&#8217;Challa (Black Panthter). I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if more characters we already know also show up in the film.<\/p>\n<p>The Russo brothers are a great addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). They have an incredible understanding of its characters as well as how to tell a good story. That being said, it&#8217;s rumored that <em>Infinity War<\/em> will consist of a (mostly) new Avengers team, including Black Panther, Spider-Man, and possibly Bucky Barnes or Sam Wilson picking up the moniker Captain America. After all, contracts don&#8217;t last forever.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a long way out and anything could happen. It will also be interesting to see where superhero films stand in Hollywood by 2018 and if they&#8217;re still dominating box offices.<\/p>\n<p>The Russo brothers got their start in television, directing and producing shows like <em>Happy Endings<\/em> and <em>Community<\/em> (which is newly back with its sixth season on Yahoo!). They earned an Emmy for directing the pilot of <em>Arrested Development<\/em> and are currently producing an upcoming NBC multi-camera comedy from Aseem Batra. Busy is an understatement for the two of them.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited by this change of directors? What did you think of <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/em>? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon&#8217;s Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out in less than a month as the last big Marvel team-up he helms (at least for now). Rumored for months, Marvel has finally confirmed that Joe and Anthony Russo will direct Avengers: Infinity War \u2013 Parts 1 and 2, set to come out in May 2018 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[1841,2564,2565,3145,112,1842,1216,1215],"yst_prominent_words":[8128,8828,8827,8020,9923,19946,8116,6232,8826,8825,19949,12840,9171,14828,6073,19948,15784,19947,6692,8830],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68888,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions\/68888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18755"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}