Trailer for Home Release of “Infinity War”

We now have a trailer and official release dates for the home video versions of Avengers: Infinity War.

Word of its release on video comes from Chadwick Boseman, who plays T’Challa/Black Panther in the MCU. “Bring home #BlackPanther and the rest of the @Avengers when #InfinityWar hits Digital 7/31 & Blu-ray 8/14,” he wrote on his Twitter account, also linking to a minute-long video advertising the film.

Released April 27 of this year, Avengers: Infinity War is the nineteenth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and easily the biggest one yet—a culmination of nearly all the films that came before it, it featured an astounding 80 characters, had a budget of somewhere between $300 million and $400 million, and is currently the highest-grossing superhero movie ever with $2.040 billion.

In the film, the Mad Titan Thanos—played by Josh Brolin, and teased in the franchise since 2012’s The Avengers—finally comes to Earth, looking for the six Infinity Stones. If he collects them all, he will become nearly unstoppable and have the power to wipe out half of the universe with a single snap of his fingers. Fighting him requires the MCU’s many heroes to unite together, including the long-awaited meeting of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The trailer was good, though problematic for those who have not already seen the film, since it contains some small spoilers (which we will now discuss, so: spoiler alert). For example, while Thor (Chris Hemsworth) spends a good portion of his time in the movie trying to obtain a new weapon, the trailer show him using said hammer, Stormbreaker, on the battlefield in Wakanda. It also reveals that it is Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), not Tony Stark, in the Hulkbuster armor in that fight, as well as the humorous interaction between Groot (Vin Diesel) and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans).

Of course, most of the people who are planning to buy the home release will have already seen the movie in theaters; still, given that the trailer for the actual movie went as far as filming fake scenes unintended for inclusion, it seems a bit sloppy.

Watching Infinity War at home will have to tie over fans until the fourth Avengers movie, picking up from a huge cliffhanger, is released on May 3, 2019.