Excited to see #InfinityWar again tonight, this time with @Russo_Brothers Q&Apic.twitter.com/LaYSHG5Rcg
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The Russo’s talked about visiting the set of The Mandalorian, praising Jon Favreau and saying the series is being shot in a way unlike any other tv show.
The Russo’s talked about recent things they’ve seen that they loved: The Haunting Of Hill House and Bodyguard.
The Russo’s joked that the only way they would return to making superhero movies after Avengers 4 is if they can make Secret Wars.
They originally planned to shoot both films at the same time but the stories got too complex and they wanted to treat them separately since they are very different films. So the decision was made a few months out to shoot them back to back instead as concurrent.
Crew in production meetings were getting confused about what scene was in what film and it was hurting the prep.
No one actually had the entire script. People who were in the film more than others had access to their scenes and knew more than others. There was also fake scenes and redacted scenes to protect secrecy.
They did three drafts of the film, one draft had Thanos as the narrator of the film and was non Linus’s in structure and had backstories for the Black order. That script was 250 pages. Writing out Thanos narration gave them insight on the character even though it didn’t make it.
They simplified the plot, made it more linear and let the character moments come through and that’s how they got to the final draft. They had a very tight script going into production but they were very open during filming and changed some things on set.
They had a draft of the script where Thanos had already secured the power stone but it felt like he had too many to start. So they instead decided to open with the attack on the ship, in the middle of his attack and plan.
Thanos was able to beat The Hulk in the beginning not because of the power stone but because he was smarter and more calculated.
They tried to plus the scene with Pepper and Tony, they shot a new scene in additional photography at the Starkhome with Tony sitting in a lawn chair fidgeting with Steve’s flip phone and Pepper comes home but it didn’t work out so they didn’t include it.
On how they got the Avengers 3/4 gig the Russo’s joked that they had to wrestle Joss Whedon: “there’s two of us, it lasted 12 seconds.”
Josh Brolin looked ridiculous on set, wearing a black and white and green pajamas with tracking ping pong balls all over it and a face tracking rig. There is a pole strapped to his back so that other actors can look up at the pole for the eye-line.
Nothing creatively changed due to the complicated scheduling, but it just made it more complicated to shoot some scenes and shoot out of order. For instance, the first day of shooting was the heroes on titan trying to come up with a plan.
Sometimes they would shoot one side of a scene with a standin and months later restate the scene and shoot the scene from the other side with the other actor and another standin.
Is Stormbreaker more powerful than the Infinity Gauntlet? Thanos didn’t know what was coming his way and if he did he would have been able to use the stones to better react to Stormbreaker.
Star Lord imitating Thor was actually something in the script and not improv’d on set.
The Russo Brothers learned in television that they like to move quickly and try a lot of things and they have taken that mentality to the editing room of the marvel movies. They edit many versions of a scene, structured in different ways.
They also do something they refer to as “screen f’n” where once they get the structure of the movie down, they start removing frames from shots and try to fast track the pacing of the film.
They try to get things right in the scripting process and that’s why there isn’t many deleted scenes on their Blu-ray’s. They are also very happy with their final cuts of the films, they are the director’s cut.
Red Skull has been on a journey since the events of Captain America. He is now a space to the stones, he is a ghost. They played around with it not being him but they kept coming back to it being Red Skull. The screenwriters, who wrote First Avenger, fought for it.
Hugo Weaving was asked to return to reprise Red Skull, that’s all the Russo Brothers would say. The Soul stone was the last stone in writing for them to come up with.
They talked about involving the Netflix Marvel characters in Infinity War, but they say it was too complicated to correlate story between not only the other marvel films in production but also the tv productions. They decided the best way to tell the story was to keep it MCU.
The Russo’s were asked about a fan theory that Bruce Banner is really Loki in disguise. They answered. That “Loki is dead.”
They would tell Stan Lee about his cameo before he came to set. Stan never turned down any of their cameos. Stan’s joke on set was “why do I always only get one line.”
They explored other ideas for the final shot but Thanos smiling at the sunset was an idea they came to very early on when the writers realized it was Thanos’ movie. He was serving an idea larger than himself, and that’s why Thanos is a hero in his own mind.
Civil War and Winter Soldier was shot mostly with three camera setups, while Infinity War was mostly shot with one camera setups. The three cameras facilitated the verite look of the Captain America movies, but they wanted Infinity War to look bigger.
When asked about the Spider-Man Homcoming “8 years later” the Russo’s said they didn’t make Spider-Man Homecoming and their film is right.
The Russo’s have been in a room with Imagineers giving a presentation about their films and explaining what’s important to them, but they are not actively involved in the Disney parks rides.
As fans and not directors, the Russo Brothers would have saved Peter Parker if they could have saved any of the characters who were dusted.
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