Infinity War Fan Poster Stars Michael Jackson & David Bowie

Infinity War 1990s Fan Poster Stars Michael Jackson & David Bowie

Published Jun 7, 2018

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A new fan poster imagines is what ended up happening to a lot of them).

As promised, Infinity War was truly the X-Men movies that put together large teams of characters. But prior to the existence of the MCU, the ultimate example of the shared universe, the idea of a movie collecting so many comic book characters together for one story was basically unthinkable.

Though Infinity War, or a movie like it, could never have existed in 1990, it's still fun imagining what such a movie might have been like...and who might have starred in it. This is exactly the exercise undertaken by an unknown artist and posted by Redditor WimpyKelv12 in a new fan poster for the Infinity War we never got but perhaps wish we had. See below the artist's take on The Infinity War 1990, featuring a galaxy of stars who ruled the world 28 years ago. The pictured cast rundown goes like this: Michael Jackson as Star-Lord, Blair Underwood as Black Panther, Tom Berenger as Iron Man, Michael J. Fox as Spider-Man, Michelle Pfeiffer as Black Widow, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk (naturally), Vanity as Gamora, Mel Gibson as Thor, and David Bowie as Doctor Strange.

The poster also lists a bunch of actors whose characters are not named. From previous works who apparently is not under house arrest in this version of Infinity War) and Lance Henriksen is Vision. This leaves us guessing on Julian Sands, Yu Wang and Theresa Randle. Noted bad guy actor Frank Langella plays Thanos despite being nowhere near as chin-heavy as Josh Brolin.

Equally as intriguing as the cast list is the crew the artist has assembled to take on creating the hypothetical film. For director, he's chosen Michael Ritchie, a versatile filmmaker probably best known today for directing the Chevy Chase movie Fletch. Ritchie doesn't leap out at you as an obvious choice to direct a massive superhero movie, but then again, the Russo Brothers didn't necessarily fit that bill either back when they were known for directing episodes of sitcoms like Community and Arrested Development.

More interestingly, the artist thinks Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller would have co-written the Infinity War 1990 script. Not a huge stretch as, of course, that never came to fruition. However, the artist doesn't stop there when it comes to famous filmmakers named George. For the real whopper, he lists George Lucas alongside Miller and Beverly Hills Cop II producer Richard Tienken as executive producers. Here's where the speculation goes somewhat off the rails. One could perhaps imagine a version of Avengers: Infinity War starring folks like Michael Jackson, Michael J. Fox and David Bowie. But George Miller and George Lucas, two of the more fiercely independent-minded filmmakers of our time, peacefully co-existing on the same production? That is indeed a stretch.