Last month, Sebastian Stan admitted that Avengers: Doomsday, in which he’ll return as Bucky Barnes, was shot without a finished script. Others have talked about it before, but this comment seems to have jump-started the chatter. Now the Russo Brothers themselves are defending this approach to the AP, saying it’s just how they’ve always done things…
“We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors,” Joe Russo said. “We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.”
Does anyone else recall the Russos having a reputation for basically flying by the seat of their pants? I mean, maybe way back when they did Welcome to Collinwood for like fifty bucks, but not on Marvel movies that cost in the hundreds of millions.
Marvel chief Kevin Feige has talked up this style as part of the MCU creative process, which includes multiple rewrites. But we’re not talking about rewrites here, are we? We’re talking about writing the script as production goes along.
I mean, did the Russos do this on their multiple failed non-Marvel movies, such as Cherry, The Gray Man, and The Electric State? It might explain something.
Anyway, the Russos also talked about what they need to accomplish with Avengers: Doomsday, and it’s not to fix the MCU, which many say has stumbled since Avengers: Endgame…
Anthony said, “It’s part of the unique challenge. The thing that Joe and I have always appreciated about our collaboration with Marvel is: Our job isn’t to answer for the entirety of the MCU. We intersect it in a very specific way. It’s that intersection which is where we can make sense of things.”
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18th.
