{"id":640934,"date":"2026-06-16T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:02:11","slug":"tony-stark-nearly-killed-thanos-in-infinity-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640934\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stark Nearly Killed Thanos In ‘Infinity War’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n

Attending a recent screening of \u201cCaptain America: Civil War\u201d, Joe and Anthony Russo finally confirmed a very long-standing rumour about their original plans for \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d.<\/p>\n

That rumour suggested that Josh Brolin\u2019s Thanos was killed by Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Tony Stark\/Iron Man in the cliffhanger film and not the subsequent \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, that didn\u2019t happen, with Thanos proving victorious in \u2018Infinity War\u2019 and wiping out half the universe. He eventually got his comeuppance at the hands of Tony at the end of \u2018Endgame\u2019.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question at the screening, Joe Russo says (via CBR<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\u201cThis happens a lot in these rooms, right? We try to\u2026I\u2019m feeling the heat now. We try to investigate. We try to investigate all angles, right? Everything\u2019s up for grabs. We always say, \u2018Best idea wins.\u2019 And a lot of the [time] you gotta stretch\u2026We have to stretch the taffy a little bit, pull the taffy a little bit, stretch it, see where it goes.<\/p>\n

There was a moment where we thought, \u2018They\u2019re not expecting it. This could be the best place to possibly do it.\u2019 But then we\u2019d have to figure out how he could potentially still participate in the next movie. And then we went, \u2018F*** it, let\u2019s just do it in the next movie.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russos have been reportedly doing reshoots recently on \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d and are gearing up to shoot \u201cAvengers: Secret Wars\u201d.<\/p>\n

A poorly pixelated and apparently leaked clip from \u2018Doomsday\u2019 hit social media on the weekend, but as Disney and Marvel haven\u2019t bothered with copyright takedowns it has been widely dismissed as an AI fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Attending a recent screening of \u201cCaptain America: Civil War\u201d, Joe and Anthony Russo finally confirmed a very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}