Actor Anthony Mackie, one of the stars of Avengers: Infinity War, recently gave a hilarious summation of the movie’s plot while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Given that Mackie couldn’t say too much with the high level of secrecy surrounding the highly anticipated film, his summary left Fallon with more questions than answers.

Anthony Mackie first entered The Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: The Winter Soldier playing the role of Sam Wilson - a former United States Air Force pararescueman who was befriended by Captain America. Taking the codename Falcon, Wilson helped Captain America and Black Widow in foiling a plot to take over SHIELD. This earned him a place among The Avengers at the end of Age of Ultron and led to a fight at Avengers headquarters with Scott Lang during the events of Ant-Man. He was last seen among the imprisoned allies of Captain America at the end of Civil War.

The video of Mackie’s interview with Jimmy Fallon can be viewed above. The relevant section starts at around the 7:00 mark. In addition to describing the broad plot of the film, Mackie also discusses the proper pronunciation of the name of the film’s main villain, Thanos, The Mad Titan.“It’s tricky. So there’s a dude name Thay-NOSE,” starts Mackie. “Or Thay-NAWS, wherever you’re from.”

Mackie goes on to describe how Thanos is seeking The Infinity Stones. He also discusses how Captain America assembles the various heroes of Earth (not just The Avengers) to meet the threat that Thanos poses. Fallon questioned some of the dialogue that Mackie quoted. such as Steve Rogers’ request that they all “slide through, right quick…” “It was a rewrite! The original script is not the script you see!” exclaimed Mackie.

Humorous as Mackie’s description is, it tells us little that had not already been gleaned from the trailers or from the basic plot of The Infinity Gauntlet - the classic Marvel Comics mini-series which is believed to have provided most of the inspiration for the base plot of Avengers: Infinity War. While many comics have detailed Thanos’ efforts to acquire the six Infinity Gems and use their power for various schemes, The Infinity Gauntlet was the first and is still widely considered to be the best. We can rest assured, however, based on Mackie’s narrative, that The Avengers will “meet up with Thanos (and) give him the business” before the end of the movie.

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Source: The Tonight Show

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