INFINITY WAR / ENDGAME Production Info from The Russos & Markus/McFeely

>IW originally opened with Thanos fucking up Xandar to get the Power Stone, which would set up Richard Rider becoming Nova, but they felt there were too many new characters and Nova wasn't as necessary as the others.

>They briefly considered revealing that Captain America was the Soul Stone in IW.

>The Guardians of the Galaxy would originally only have a brief cameo in IW.

>Scarlet Witch would originally survive in IW, but they felt her EG arc was just "spinning heels" and that it was more impactful to kill her.

>James Gunn was informed about Gamora's death early on and helped write the scene.

>That line about oceanic earthquakes from EG was indeed a Namor reference/setup.

>Original plan for the Time Heist was Tony going to Asgard with Thor to get the Reality Stone and the Space Stone. Tony would be wearing an invisible stealth suit, but Heimdall would be able to see him and they would fight, while fat Thor would fight fit Thor. They scrapped the whole sequence in favor of a more personal scene with Thor and his mom and gave Cap the "fighting your past self" scene.

>Back when Tony was Thor's Time Heist buddy, Rocket was paired with Wanda on a road trip from New York to Washington, D.C. to steal the Mind Stone from the Triskelion.

>Nebula and War Machine's mission originally involved fighting a sea monster in an underwater temple where the Power Stone was hidden.

>They originally planned to show Smart Hulk's Soul World vision, which was a conversation between Banner and Savage Hulk, but there was no time.

>Smart Hulk is not just Banner with Hulk's strength, it's a fusion of their two personalities, which is why he's a bit more cocky than normal Banner.

>Nebula originally used the Infinity Gauntlet and sacrificed herself to wound Thanos, but they axed it because they felt it undermined Tony using it later.

>They considered making Bucky the new Cap, but Falcon made more sense because Cap is all about idealism and Bucky isn't that kind of character.

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Big if true.

This really was never going to be a good movie.

As a rule of thumb anything that has time travel but is not explicitly about time travel is most likely shit

Over all I think these are pretty good ending after the last 10 years. My biggest complaints are how they just wave away the butterfly effect of time travel and that Thor left Valkyrie as the new ruler of Asgard rather than just leave her in charge while he is away. The 2nd part the most because Thor's entire character arch has been learning to be a good king when he rules Asgard like his father, but just giving it up to someone else feels like a betrayal of all the character he has been building up for almost 10 years. Also has to do with the fact that I do not like Valkyrie.

>Actually showed the impact of The Snap, and at the end didn't even undo as much of it as the original Infinity Gauntlet story did.
>Phased out characters in a way comics with a sliding timescale have never done, forcing future writers to advance supporting characters arcs and to create new, dynamic stories.

It may have been a bloated, three hour masturbation session that plays like a "Best of the MCU" album, but it did its job satisfyingly enough. Honestly, I was more interested in where the MCU was going at the end of Endgame than I had been since the end of the first Avengers film. And that was a bloated, empty mess that did set up future promise too, so maybe I'm just being stupidly optimistic.

Thor never wanted to be king, though. He avoided it as much as he could until he was literally the only one left in the line of succession.

>>They originally planned to show Smart Hulk's Soul World vision, which was a conversation between Banner and Savage Hulk, but there was no time.
YES THERE FUCKING WAS
YES THERE FUCKING WAS TIME
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK

UMMM.. so just admit you are a racist dipshit???

How does it advance the plot, though?

Exactly. It would've been nice, but it is an expendable scene.