Why the Two-Part 'Avengers: Infinity War' Won't Be Like 'Harry Potter' or 'The Hunger Games'

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  A strange thing happened once studios began splitting up big, highly anticipated franchise finales into multiple parts. On one hand the initial idea sounded promising -- here was even more of something we love so dearly. But there was some backlash, especially with adaptations, because stretching one book into two movies always hurt part one simply because it wasn't as cool as part two. So when it came to the two-part Avengers finale -- announced last year as Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2, due in 2018 and 2019 respectively, there was definitely some uneasiness among fans that this would suffer from feeling like one story stretched into two. When Fandango sat down with Infinity War (and Captain America: Civil War) writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus...
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