Here’s the latest news on a quartet of geek films.

Avengers: Infinity War.  Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the writers of all 3 of Marvel Studios Captain America films (as well as co-writing Thor: The Dark World and creating the Agent Carter TV series), have been hired to write both parts of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War saga, with Part 1 slated to debut on May 4, 2018 followed by Part 2 on May 3, 2019.  As Deadline reports Markus and McFeely will be working once again with the directing team of Joe and Anthony Russo, who helmed Captain America: The First Avenger, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and are currently starting principal photography on Captain America: Civil War in Atlanta.  The two-parts of Avengers: Infinity War will be shot back-to-back and will be the biggest production in the history of Marvel Studios (see "Geek Movie News Round-Up") as well as the first feature film to be shot entirely in the giant IMAX format.

Captain America: Civil War.  As noted above, production got underway today and more actors were announced for a cast that Buzzfeed reports will include 17 significant roles at last count. It was recently announced that Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), and Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) will join a cast that currently includes newcomers Martin Freeman and Daniel Bruhl in as-yet-unspecified roles as well as the previously announced participation of Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olson, Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Don Cheadle, Emily Van Camp, William Hurt, and Frank Grillo.  We said 17 roles because the actor who will play Spider-Man in Civil War has not yet been announced--and Marvel has not yet announced whether or not Mark Ruffalo will portray Hulk in Civil War.

The Infinite Horizon.  Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. has acquired a spec script by Ryan Condal based on the graphic novel The Infinite Horizon written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by Phil Noto.  Published in 2012 by Image Comics, The Infinite Horizon which is a graphic novel version of the Odyssey set in a fairly recognizable modern world with an American soldier stranded in Syria and forced to fight his way home, was nominated for an Eisner (see "Eisner Awards Share the Wealth").

The Forever War.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has won a bidding war to secure the rights to The Forever War, an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s 1974 science fiction novel.  The deal includes screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Passengers), who received a 7-figure deal to pen the adaptation of the Vietnam War-influenced sci-fi epic, and Channing Tatum who attached to star in the adaptation of The Forever War.  Haldeman’s book was also adapted into a three volume graphic novel series that was published by NBM in the 1990s.