Infinity War Deleted 45-Minute Sequence Of Thanos Destroying Xandar & Stealing First Infinity Stone

Avengers: Infinity War cut a 45-minute sequence of Thanos destroying Xandar and stealing the first Infinity Stone, the Power Stone. Avengers: Infinity War was groundbreaking due to it seeing the coming together of several heroes from different MCU franchises to fight the Mad Titan. Josh Brolin's Thanos acted as the movie's protagonist, with Avengers: Infinity War following the villain as he traversed the MCU collecting Infinity Stones to eliminate half of the universe's population. Thanos getting the Power Stone from Xandar was not shown, and now it has become known that a 45-minute sequence of that event was cut from the movie.
Speaking with Near Mint Condition, Thanos' comic book creator Jim Starlin, who also came up with the story that inspired Avengers: Infinity War — "Infinity Gauntlet" — revealed that a 45-minute sequence of Thanos' decimation of Xandar, with the villain stealing the Power Stone, was cut from the film.
According to Starlin, a month before the movie premiered, he was told by Joe Russo, one of the directors of Avengers: Infinity War, that a 45-minute sequence of Thanos getting the Power Stone from Xandar had been cut from the beginning of the film. Starlin then shockingly revealed that the whole sequence had been shot. Check out the full quote below:

"But about a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe saying, 'the 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we had it cut.' There was a whole sequence of him getting the first gem and they had to cut that out. They shot it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn’t want the movie to be as long as the second one [Endgame] was. They didn’t realize it was going to be quite the hit it was."

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