If the trailers for Avengers: Infinity War have made anything clear, it's that this film is all about match-ups - putting characters together that have never met before and watching the sparks fly. The weirder or more combustible the combination, the better.

Avengers: Infinity War is demanding, heartbreaking, exhilarating, massive, and dense. More than seemingly any movie so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it requires its viewer to be intimately acquainted with all the films that come before it - and, if you are, it's rewarding and audacious in ways the franchise has never been before and isn't likely to be again. It's a movie that is not screwing around.

This according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige.

Just how big does Avengers: Infinity War get? Allow directors Joe and Anthony Russo to explain.

The Russo Brothers, directors of Captain America: Civil War as well as Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel, just purchased the rights to The Electric State, an illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag. Andy Muschietti, director of It, is in talks to direct, and Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, writers of the Russo's Marvel movies, will adapt the screenplay.

And you've probably heard of the producers, too.

In May 2018, the Avengers are going to have an Infinity War. A year after that though, we now have no idea what they will be doing. Marvel just clarified a rumour that had been circling for several months: Its previously announced two-part Infinity War movie is no more.

The Russo Brothers are coming out to play, and we can dig it. After directing this winter's Captain America: Civil War, the brothers will produce an adaptation of Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic The Warriors into an hour-long drama for Hulu.

Going into Captain America: Civil War, all the conversation was about what side were you on: Team Captain America or Team Iron Man? According to the writers and directors, walking out of the movie, that debate should not be over -- because they specifically didn't want to answer it.

At the center of Captain America: Civil War is the most spectacular action scene we've ever seen in a superhero movie. Twelve superheroes in one place, fighting with each other, a battle packed with excitement, humour, and personal stakes. It's the kind of set piece even the biggest Hollywood blockbuster would kill to have, and yet it's not why Civil War is so great.

Like many things in Marvel Cinematic Universe, the fact that Captain America 3 is actually the huge crossover, Civil War, is totally Bucky's fault. If his last movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, hadn't been so good, maybe things would have been simpler. But, alas, when trying to come up with something to top The Winter Soldier, only one thing was up to the task: Civil War.

As Disney and Sony executives locked horns in a Hollywood conference room last February, the film-makers behind Captain America: Civil War were already betting on the outcome. Spider-Man was going to be in this movie, no matter what. And if he wasn't, well, that was going to be a problem.

The crazy thing about Marvel's movies is the second you get a new one, it just makes you even more eager to know about what comes after. Captain America: Civil War, coming April 28, sets things in motion for another epic story -- one which will end with not one, but two Avengers movies.