Anthony Russo: Endurance.
Re-imagining these characters to a very personal point of view.
What can you say about the state of the world?
Are the Sokovia accords still a thing?
How much later in the timeline is this one?
Anthony Russo: We always do everything based on when the last movie came out.
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Joe Russo: It’ll be roughly two years.
So it’s got an energy to it, a bit of a smash and grab energy.
Joe Russo: Like the heist genre.
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What would be some of those titles specifically, from the 90s?
Anthony Russo: The movies that we looked at, Two Days in the Valley, Out of Sight.
Really as inspiration for narrative imagery.
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Again, just purely something inspires us in the room when we’re working on the script.
Can you guys talk about filming the whole movie with the IMAX cameras?
Anthony Russo: Amazing.
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Joe Russo: They’re beautiful cameras, the chip is unbelievable, it’s stunning.
We have a lot of characters who are tall, unnaturally tall.
What’s it like doing the quieter scenes with these gigantic cameras?
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So there’s a new iteration of the cameras that is much more user friendly than they have been.
What is the approach with getting them to mix here?
Are they going to bring their own music?
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Anthony Russo: Everybody does.
So all that energy is combined.
What kind of role do the Guardians have in this film?
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Anthony Russo: They have a great role in this film.
Joe Russo: You’re seeing a scene today thats a high character count.
Anthony Russo: And a lot of movie stars.
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Joe Russo: Yeah.
Anthony Russo: They’re all somebody’s favorite character.
Joe Russo: Exactly.
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We have a really strong strong team, we’ve spent many, many months preparing.
Having that support system has made it a lot easier with each successive movie.
Anthony Russo: Everything’s always got to be character based.
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The action for us, it’s always character based.
Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
Or how do you look at this as a part of the Avengers trilogy?
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Joe Russo: We look at it the way people would look at writers in comic books.
Now, I want to see something else."
I understand that James Gunn is working on this film.
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Whether it be Taika or James
Anthony Russo: Peyton [Reed] or Scott [Derrickson].
I would say collectively, everyone in the Marvel Universe has been involved in this movie.
We’re very close with all the directors, we love them all.
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I think James has functioned the same way that everyone has been functioning.
[Ryan] Coogler.
Sorry, we didn’t mention him.
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It’s really just trying to do the job of managing the universe as it’s progressing.
Anthony Russo: And what we need from their storytelling to help move us forward.
I think in particular on this one that was Ryan.
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Because he was shooting while we were shooting, and there was a lot of cross collaboration there.
He’s done an amazing job with the level of detail that he has brought to the Wakandan universe.
You see it in the trailer, it’s mind-blowing.
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Anthony Russo: There’s story elements shared.
It’s part of the fun with us!
I’m curious, have the directors of Captain Marvel come by?
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They’re figuring out the story that they want to tell.
I’m assuming we’ll be meeting with them in the next month or so.
But you guys are really bringing him to the screen where he’ll be, presumably, doing things.
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Could talk about the process of bringing that character to life, and working with Josh Brolin?
Joe Russo: Josh is an amazing actor, obviously.
Whether it be something like skinny Steve, or whatever the case may be.
It’s a very, very intimate portrayal and performance.
Can you tell us how you’re approaching that now, and why you’re shooting back-to-back?
But as we developed the movie, in execution, it ended up being more of two singular expressions.
And I think thats just what happened.
You were saying earlier that every character is someone’s favorite character.
Is there anyone in particular that you guys are excited for the audience to react to?
Anthony Russo: Everybody.
All the deals are hard, everybody’s expensive.
It’s very complicated to put together a movie of this scale.
Sometimes it’s easier to just say maybe we should just not do it with these guys.
Have there been any conversations for Fantastic Four?
Joe Russo: It’s a hard question, because we’re filmmakers.
So all we do, we think these stories are very important.
I think that you find that in the vast majority of the audiences.
The Academy sometimes plays a role in protecting films that need more support.
Anthony Russo: And stories that could use it.
Joe Russo: Yeah, and stories that could use it.
Joe Russo: Yeah, less of an inclination to say “Hey, we need to pay attention.
Joe Russo: We always venture to make each film different so they don’t get repetitive.
Especially in stories this big.
Joe Russo: Certainly the [Jim] Starlin book was our jumping off point.
Anthony Russo: There are some changes …
Joe Russo: Groot has grown.
Joe Russo: The relationships have deepened.
Anthony Russo: And they would stand in contrast with the other teams.
You mentioned that you guys read a bunch of the scripts for the other Marvel movies.
Is there one before Infinity War that has the biggest lead-in that we can be expecting?
Joe Russo: They all lead in in their own way, I think.
Anthony Russo: But we can’t talk about that.
You guys introduced Black Panther before his movie was signed, and will introduce Captain Marvel before her movie.
Is there a different approach for those two characters, or how do guys you go about that?
I mean look at the views for the Ragnarok trailer.
Taika’s point of view is really clear in that movie, and people went crazy.
How does that come into play?
Joe Russo: In a very complicated manner.
I tend to find that it’s much more emotional when a person is involved.
So there are a lot of characters that will come into direct conflict with Thanos.
Are any major characters going to die in this movie?
Anthony Russo: We’ll say this.
We like mature story telling.
We like dramatic storytelling.
We like intense storytelling.
I think we appreciate conflict, and we appreciate stakes.
And without stakes, there really isn’t a lot of value to the story.
And the stakes will be higher in this movie than they’ve ever been, times ten.
So Hawkeye’s on his own journey in this movie
Anthony Russo: Yeah.
Can we hear a little bit about what Tony and Spider-Man are up to?
Anthony Russo: Tony is still in his, you know, he sort of sided with the Accords.
He still has this connection with Spiderman that he’s established
Joe Russo: In Homecoming.
Anthony Russo: And that evolves.
And they basically have a unique mentor/mentee relationship that continues to evolve as they move into this film.
Who in the Avengers is with him at the start of this movie?
Anthony Russo: The same group that was with him at the end of Civil War.
What can you say about how significant Wakanda and the characters there are to this film?
Joe Russo: It’s a very special place.
It’s a very safe place.
And it’s a very well fortified place.
And T’Challa leads an army.
So, I think that Wakanda is a logical place for anyone seeking refuge in the movie.
It has an important role in the movie.
How much will we see of what the characters have been doing between movies?
So yeah, we structure and we take a stab at keep things very focused.
Anthony Russo: And you have another comic book laid out next to it.
Joe Russo: So we have the equivalent of that in this movie.
But none seem more scared of him than the Hulk.
What is everybody’s experience like with him to this point, and why are they so afraid?
So when Thanos decides to do it, he really goes for it.
And he’s kind of one step ahead of our heroes through the movie.
That is his role in the comics.
That’s his role in these movies.
And to be a preeminent villain you have to do some pretty bad things.
What can you say about Dr. Joe Russo: Dr.
Strange, like a lot of the other characters, will integrate his universe into this film.
And he will have a very personal stake in it because he’s a bearer of an Infinity Stone.
So clearly, Thanos is coming for the Stones, he’s gonna run into Doctor Strange.
The word culmination keeps coming up.
Without spoiling anything, what does that mean to you?
And then there may be new books written, but this is certainly the ending ofthisbook.
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