The creator of Thanos in the comics reveals a 45-minute deleted scene from ‘Avengers: Infinity War’

The start of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ was a little weird. You may not remember it (only 5 years have passed, but since then the UCM has released more than 15 products between Marvel movies and series), so let’s refresh our memory: Thanos began his search for the Infinity Stones to carry out his evil plan to eliminate half of the living beings in the galaxy, but the villain the film began with the Power Stone without ever showing how he was able to obtain it.

During an interview with Near Mint Condition, Thanos creator Jim Starlin has revealed that Marvel Studios actually filmed a 45-minute scene showing the Mad Titan destroying the planet of Xandar. to get the Gem, but unfortunately, the scene was scrapped before any visual effects work was done.

At the end of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ (2014), the Power Stone is locked in a vault in Xandar, the capital of the Nova Empire.. As such, it would be logical to imagine that Thanos had to defeat the mighty army of the Nova Corps to get it. However, in the opening scene of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, we see that Thanos already has the Power Stone in his gauntlet while destroy Loki’s Asgardian ship to collect the Tesseract.

Thanks to her, the Mad Titan easily defeats the trio of Thor, Loki and Hulk and seizes the Space Stone contained in the Tesseract cube. It seems clear that Thanos destroyed Xandar somehow, but we never see how that could have happened. Starlin has revealed this week that this deleted scene would have added another 45 minutes to the duration of ‘Infinity War’, going up to 200 minutes (it seems like a lot, but it would have been only 20 more than ‘Avengers: Endgame’).

“About a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe [Russo, uno de los directores] which said: ‘the 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we cut it’. There was a whole sequence of Thanos getting the first gem and they had to remove it. They filmed it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn’t want the movie to be as long as ‘Endgame’ was. They didn’t realize it would have been such a success.”

Forty-five extra minutes seems excessive for a single scene, but the destruction of a planet like Xandar and the epic battle against the Nova Corps were well worth it. Even more curious is Starling’s explanation of how Marvel Studios was afraid to take the risk, since they finally ‘Infinity War’ managed to overcome the impressive barrier of 2,000 million dollars becoming one of the highest grossing films in history.

Perhaps the Nova movie (or series), the project that has been the subject of rumors within the UCM for years, can address the event through a flashback?