Josh Brolin elaborates on Thanos' master plan in Avengers: Infinity War and it's quickly becoming clear that there's more to this villain than meets the eye, hence why we'll be revisiting his early years!





First of all, though, We've known since The Avengers that Thanos wants to get his hands on the Infinity Stones but what exactly is he planning? Yesterday, it was confirmed by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige that the Mad Titan is looking to wipe out billions of beings in order to restore order to the universe but Josh Brolin hs now shed some light on what exactly we should expect from the villain late next month.First of all, though, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Avengers: Infinity War is going to feature flashbacks to Thanos' youth on Titan, something which is sure to flesh out the character in a way that both The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy failed to. However, does the villain really have a heart?

"When you see the relationship with Gamora and you see that evolves, God I wish I could tell you. I can’t! When [directors Joe and Anthony Russo] came up to me after we had done maybe three quarters of the film, they said, “It wasn’t necessarily intended that you feel for this guy as much as you do.” Obviously he has a grand plan, like somebody who’s pulling in kids for their own selfish bloodshed. But he has a capacity to love very much and very deeply. You need that for a character like this because if he’s just a cackling madman bent on destroying everything, it’s less interesting.



"He’s different from his family. They’re all Titans and they all look similar, but he was born deformed. You see how he grew up, you see he was like the Quasimodo of this time, or if you’ve ever read Perfume [Patrick Süskind ‘s 1985 novel about a serial killer who craves beautiful scenes but is disgusted by the smell of humanity], it’s a great parallel to Thanos. He stuck out. He was an anomaly. He was a freak. And that lent to this apparent insanity."



As for what Thanos has planned for the universe, Brolin argues that there is some method in the villain's apparent madness and while he may be extremely physically imposing, he's also no fool.

"You want to write him off as insane, and yet what he’s doing makes sense, if you break it down. You think of overpopulation and killing half the universe in order to save the other half and all this kind of stuff. You have this struggle watching him. It’s this love-hate thing, you know? So I don’t know … Who in our society do we love and hate? You see this lughead and this guy who you pigeonhole right from the first cosmetic reaction to him. And what I see is this in this guy’s eyes. This super, super, super intelligence. There’s this constant contrasting thing about this Neanderthalic lughead who’s way more intelligent than anybody else in the movie, by far."