While the Internet hangs with every announcement of casting for the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the narrative -haka, turns the truth to who can get into the next big tentpole may be a bit less exciting.
In an interview with The Hollywood reporter, The Russo brothers (Electric state) discussed to return to the drawing board with Marvel to work in the next two Avengers Movies, movies, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret war, which will feature former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. That spin the heel to play Doctor Doom.
This is not the first time they have done something dangerous to the top star of the franchise. Joe Russo remembers approaching Downey, at the time that MCU is still led as Iron Man, to be a bad person in Captain America: Civil War – “A movie that is not even entitled after his personality. And this is the pitch of our lives. And he said, 'Yes, let's do it.' He liked the danger, to Robert's credit, and that choice led to explosive upside down to Infinity War and Endgame. “
In the past, the Russos have popularly kept a set of baseball-style cards featuring their superhero cast, to help monitor the number of films they contracted. “Yes, we keep using baseball cards,” Anthony Russo shared. The technique helps shape any of the Marvel film they work for.
Joe added, “Now they have magnets with them so we can put on a board and look at 'em. This is the only way to monitor the amount of characters we work for.”
It starts sounding like a budget spreadsheet than anything related to making a story, but Anthony lowered that aspect. “And how we look at who's in the movies, this is a long creative process of exploration where we want to take the story. What is the most surprising and exciting place for us to push, and which characters can help us with that effort?”
But the contracts of the stars and financial stats are clearly still with paper; If they don't, why use baseball cards? As the next behemoth of a Marvel film cross-over looms, many cards are ad The Curse -With four: first steps It will come out now. So, Russos will have more star players on the deck? Or do people move from stuffed line-up of characters overpowering the movie story? Pulling the same card trick to a larger scale is a gamble but we'll see if it pays off will come 2026 with the release of Avengers: Doomsday.
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