<P> The film is set one week 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 . The film's post-credits scene features a cameo appearance by Sebastian Stan, reprising his role as Bucky Barnes . </P> <P> The Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to try to stop Thanos from collecting all of 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 premiered in Los Angeles on April 23, 2018 . It was released worldwide on April 27, 2018, with a few debuts beginning as early as April 25 in a handful of countries . </P> <P> The film is set two years after the events of Captain America: Civil War . Marvel had 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, Thanos is shown holding an empty Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Age of Ultron . The Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger appears in the film, played by Ross Marquand instead of Hugo Weaving, and is the keeper of the final Infinity Stone, the Soul Stone . The post-credits scene features Nick Fury transmitting a distress signal on a device, which has the insignia of Captain Marvel . </P>

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