During this exclusive sit-down with Weintraub, Anthony and Joe Russo provided exciting updates for the next Avengers chapter.
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Welcome back to the party.
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JOE RUSSO: We always saidSecret Warswould get us back.
I moderated that panel with you in Hall H before COVID.
JOE RUSSO: You manifested it.
ANTHONY RUSSO: You made us super uncomfortable, by the way.
JOE RUSSO: No, you manifested it.
It wouldn’t have happened without those five questions.
I don’t think it would have happened without [Robert] Downey [Jr.].
Where are you in the writing process of something called Avengers?
JOE RUSSO: We are right in the middle of the writing process.
Is it [Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely?
Who is actually working on the script?
JOE RUSSO: Stephen McFeely is writing the script.
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I’m assuming you guys are intricately involved.
ANTHONY RUSSO: Yes.
We’ve always worked very closely with Markus and McFeely through all the work that we’ve done together.
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JOE RUSSO: And they’re both partners in AGBO with us.
We’re very tight collaborators, all of us.
WithInfinity Warand withEndgame, you guys shot them together.
Plot under wraps.
I think it was four weeks, maybe.
Was it four weeks in betweenInfinity WarandEndgame?
ANTHONY RUSSO: I think it was a couple of weeks.
JOE RUSSO: We do.
[Laughs] I like that.
I know it’s next year, but youre not gonna tell me?
JOE RUSSO: It’s in the spring.
Robert Downey Jr will return… but not as who you think.
Is it London or Atlanta?
JOE RUSSO: We haven’t made up our minds yet I’m kidding.
It’s probably better not to say.
ANTHONY RUSSO: We’re being sort of reticent because we’re still figuring a lot of this out.
Is there any chance you guys are thinking about an IMAX film for these Avengers movies?
JOE RUSSO: Absolutely.
Those are all the conversations we’re having right now.
What is it like behind the scenes of it?
JOE RUSSO: Its a little bit like getting back on a bike.
And we collaborate with Kevin and the folks at Marvel.
It’s very complicated to iron out a story of this scale.
The ambition is similar toInfinity WarandEndgame.
ANTHONY RUSSO: I would just say, you hear it in your question.
That’s how we clear up all the other issues in the room.
Or was it, We have the skill set, let’s go and do it again?
ANTHONY RUSSO: Look, on some level, those movies can seem intimidating because they were such successes.
That’s what we’re focused on.
We can’t really control what ends up to a movie after you make it.
All we can do is put our best effort into making it.
It certainly was a highlight of our careers, was sitting in audiences watchingInfinity WarandEndgamewith those audiences.
It was electric and felt like a rock concert.
Stories are one of the last things that we have left that bind people together still.
JOE RUSSO: Great Lakes Avengers.
You know what I mean, though?
Youre in the writing process right now.
It has to be amazing.
JOE RUSSO: That’s the exciting part of it.
It’s that time that we’ve all invested in these characters.
It just makes their meaning and their resonance and their possibilities all that more powerful and intriguing and thrilling.
So, yeah, when you have that emotional investment, it’s the thrill of a lifetime.
Avengers: Doomsdaywill hit theaters in 2026.
Look for more from our exclusive interview with the Russo Brothers soon.
