The introduction to Thanos in Infinity War was once intended to be much longer, it has been claimed
In order to establish Thanos as a formidable threat, the film begins in media res with the character already in possession of one of the stones - the Power Stone - having wreaked destruction on the planet of Xandar to get it. He then uses the Power Stone to overpower Hulk, Loki and Thor and take the Space Stone from them.However, according to Starlin, the introduction was once intended to be much longer, showing how Thanos got the Power Stone in the first place.
"When I was on the set, [Christopher] Marcus and [Stephen] McFeely [the movie's writers] told me everything that they were doing in the two movies. They ran me down this hallway that had all the concept paintings up on the wall and so for a year and a half, I had to keep my mouth shut. "But about a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe saying: 'The 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we had it cut.' There was a whole sequence of him getting the first gem and they had to cut that out.
"They had shot it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn’t want the movie to be as long as the second one [Avengers: Endgame] was. They didn’t realise it was going to be quite the hit it was."
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