The box office-destroying movie’s sequel, for now tentatively known as Avengers 4, will definitely not include Adam Warlock.
The character – a popular fixture of the Marvel comics, and a character involved in the original Thanos plots – was initially teased in a post-credits scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 but nothing has been heard since.
Amid whispers that he could show up to help save the day in Avengers 4, Joe Russo has maintained that this isn’t the case.
“Yeah, [Adam Warlock]’s not showing up in our stories,” he told ComicBook.com.
“Look, our job as we said a million times is to tell the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not to do direct adaptations of the comics because we’re comic book fans.
“I have no interest as a director in telling a story that’s already been told or in seeing one that’s already been told.
“If I know all the events story as they’re going to happen then what’s the point of going to the film?
“We want to keep surprising audiences and continue the story that started with Iron Man […] a decade ago.”
One person who will be showing up in Avengers 4 is Captain Marvel.
Brie Larson’s introduction as Carol Danvers will come in her solo movie next spring, ahead of her involvement in Avengers 4 just weeks later.
The Russos recently explained why she did not show up in Infinity War, telling the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “We want to save her reveal.
Anthony added: “It was very important to us to commit… we wanted to commit to this ending very hard. We didn’t want to go past the ending very much.”
Joe continued: “And we considered not doing any tags. For that reason.
“Then we thought maybe it was too brutal. Everything’s about trying to find balance.
“I mean, all of these characters are [playing a major role in Avengers]. It’s hard to talk about the next one.
“We’re going to try to protect the secrets of that one the same way that we did on this one.”
Avengers 4 is out in the UK on April 26, 2019.
