Marvel's Avengers: Forever is a 2019 live-action superhero ensemble film produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios. It is the twenty-seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the culmination of every Marvel film that preceded it. It was released worldwide on May 3rd 2019.
Production
Since The Avengers was released in 2012 Marvel Studios had been teasing the arrival of Thanos and their desire to adapt the classic Infinity Gauntlet saga to the MCU. These plans began to truly solidify during Comic Con 2015 when Kevin Feige revealed the Phase 3's schedule would include two Avengers films that would star Thanos as the main villain and serve as the epic conclusion to the Avengers franchise. In 2018, the first film Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet was released and broke box office records around the world as well as ending on a cliffhanger where half of the universe's population was decimated by Thanos after snapping with all six Infinity Stones. This ramifications of this action were further explored during the end credit scenes of Ant-Man and the Wasp. With Kevin Feige even going on to state that none of the Avengers who disappeared at the end of Infinity Gauntlet would be main characters or be involved in the marketing for the next Avengers film.
At Comic Con 2018, the title for Avengers 4 was announced to be Avengers: Forever with Timothy Olyphant, Ruby Rose, and Jeffrey Wright all attached to undisclosed roles in the film. Despite the secrecy, speculation arose that the movie would take inspiration from the Avengers: Forever comic and introduce the concept of time travel. These theories appeared to be validated after Captain Marvel's end credit scene which implied Carol had time travelled to the future. Afterwards, the final trailer openly revealed Zachary Quinto's role as Kang as Conqueror in the movie all but confirming the presence of time travel.
Filming began in 2017 directly after Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet but was released almost exactly a year later on May 3rd 2019.
Cast
- Chris Evans as Steven "Steve" Rogers/Captain America/Vance Astro
- Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony "Tony" Stark/Iron Man
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
- Brie Larson as Caroline "Carol" Danvers/Captain Marvel
- Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool
- Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
- Zoe Saldana as Gamora/Umbra Requiem
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
- Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War-Machine
- Timothy Olyphant as Nathaniel Kang/Kang the Conqueror
- Ruby Rose as Terraxia
- Jeffrey Wright as Eternity (Voice)
- Josh Brolin as Thanos
- Angelina Jolie as Mistress Death
- Matthew McConaughey as Adam Warlock
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Beta Ray Bill
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts
- Michael Peña as Pedro Ortiz
- Kerry Kondon as Friday (Voice)
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson
- Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk
- Jeremy Renner as Clinton "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye
- Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S. (Voice)
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Jason Statham as Tommy Masters/Taskmaster
- Jeff Goldblum as En Dwi Gast/Grandmaster
- Pom Klementieff as Mantis
- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
- Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
- Rachel Weisz as Hovat
- Chris Pratt as Jason Quill/Star-Lord
- Bradley Cooper as Rocket (Voice)
- Vin Diesel as Kanoot (Voice)
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
- Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
- Kathryn Winnick as Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
- Rebecca Hall as Bethany Cabe/Rescue
- Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman/Domino
- Evangeline Lily as Janet Van Dyne/The Wasp
- Chloe Bennet as Director Daisy Johnson/Quake (Cameo)
- Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia (Cameo)
- Benedict Wong as Kan Wong (Cameo)
- Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta (Cameo)
- Michael Douglas as Hank Pym (Cameo)
- Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie Lang (Cameo)
- Letitia Wright as Shuri (Cameo)
- Angela Basset as Ramonda (Cameo)
- Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane (Cameo)
- Hayley Atwell as Agent Margaret "Peggy" Carter (Cameo)
- Sebastian Stan as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes (Cameo)
- John Slattery as Howard Stark (Cameo)
- Hope Davis as Maria Stark (Cameo)
- Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull (Cameo)
