<P> The film is set after the events of Captain America: Civil War . Florence Kasumba, Serkis, Martin Freeman, and John Kani reprise their roles as Ayo, Ulysses Klaue, Everett K. Ross and T'Chaka respectively from previous MCU films . </P> <P> The Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to battle Thanos, who is trying to amass the Infinity Stones . </P> <P> The film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers: Infinity War--Part 1 . In April 2015, Marvel announced that Anthony and Joe Russo would direct the film and in May, that Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely would write the screenplay . In July 2016, Marvel revealed the title would be shortened to simply Avengers: Infinity War . Brolin reprises his role as Thanos, and is part of an ensemble cast featuring many actors who have appeared in other MCU films . Filming for Infinity War began in January 2017 in Atlanta, and lasted until July 2017 . Additional filming also took place in Scotland . Avengers: Infinity War is scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018 . </P> <P> The film is set four years after the events of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 . Marvel has been planting the seeds for Infinity War since their early films, by introducing the Infinity Stones as MacGuffins: the Tesseract / Space Stone in Captain America: The First Avenger, Loki's Scepter / Mind Stone in The Avengers, the Aether / Reality Stone in Thor: The Dark World, the Orb / Power Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Eye of Agamotto / Time Stone in Doctor Strange . Additionally, one Infinity Gauntlet is briefly seen in Thor and another in Avengers: Age of Ultron . </P>

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