‘Avengers 4’: Benedict Cumberbatch is ‘thrilled’ with ‘ingenuity’ of film, Tom Holland teased Quantum realm
While promoting Patrick Melrose, Benedict Cumberbatch spoke in a new interview praising the new film, still called Avengers 4 for now, as the conclusion to the Avengers: Infinity War and ten years of Marvel’s films.
“I was thrilled. Thrilled, thrilled, thrilled and thrilled with the pitch for the second film,” he said of the cliff ending to the last film.
“And [I’m thrilled] with the pitch for it. And thrilled by the ingenuity of the whole thing. And to be in an audience and experience [the ending of Infinity War] was something else. I’ve been part of Sherlock, with a very famous cliffhanger. It’s a very brave thing for movies that are that big, bold and colorful.”
Cumberbatch teased a great story with Patrick Melrose.
“It’s the scope of one man’s extraordinary circumstances and the shift of someone who begins as a victim of child abuse and devolves into a drug addict, and the continuing trauma upsetting any stability within his own family,” he said, still silent on the planned Doctor Strange sequel.
Little is known about Avengers 4 and how the film “undoes” the tragic ending to many of Marvel’s greatest heroes. There is a brief tease in the Ant-Man and the Wasp mid-credit scene, something Tom Holland teased earlier.
“[Cumberbatch] has the most difficult lines, though,” Holland said in this April interview. “He has to talk about so much Quantum Realm stuff. I just have to talk about, ‘Yeah, man, that’s awesome.’”
Avengers 4 stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Tom Hiddleston. (all listed until otherwise clarified by Marvel).
Oh yeah, Josh Brolin stars as Thanos.
The Russo brothers direct from the film scripted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: Civil War),
Avengers 4 opens in theaters on May 3rd, 2019.
