Doomsday Sounds Like a Nightmare

Whereas the web hangs onto each casting announcement for the Marvel Cinematic Universe for narrative hypothesis, it seems the reality behind who will get to be within the subsequent large tentpole is perhaps rather less thrilling.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Russo Brothers (Electric State) mentioned going again to the drafting board with Marvel to work on the following two Avengers movies, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, which can function former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. turning heel to play Physician Doom.

This isn’t the primary time they’ve executed one thing this dangerous with the franchise’s main star. Joe Russo recalled approaching Downey, on the time nonetheless main the MCU as Iron Man, to be the dangerous man in Captain America: Civil War —”a film that wasn’t even titled after his character. And it was the pitch of our lives. And he stated, ‘Sure, let’s do it.’ He appreciated the danger, to Robert’s credit score, and that alternative led the explosive upside to Infinity Struggle and Endgame.”

Prior to now, the Russos famously saved a set of baseball-style playing cards that includes their superhero solid, to assist preserve monitor of the variety of movies they’re contracted to be in. THR requested the duo in the event that they nonetheless use them. “Sure, we proceed to make use of the baseball playing cards,” Anthony Russo shared. The strategy helps form whichever Marvel movie they’re engaged on.

Joe added, “Now they’ve magnets on them so we will put ‘em on a board and take a look at ‘em. It’s the one technique to preserve monitor of the quantity of characters that we’re working with.”

It’s starting to sound extra like a finances spreadsheet reasonably than something associated to crafting a narrative, however Anthony downplayed that side. “And so far as how will we take a look at who’s within the films, it’s only a lengthy inventive means of exploring the place we need to take the story. What’s the most shocking and thrilling space for us to push into, and which characters assist us in that effort?”

However the stars’ contracts and monetary stats clearly nonetheless play a task; in the event that they didn’t, why use the baseball playing cards? As the following behemoth of a Marvel film cross-over looms, extra playing cards have been aded to the deck, with The Implausible 4: First Steps popping out this summer time. So, will the Russos have extra star gamers on deck? Or have individuals moved on from stuffed line-ups of characters overpowering the film’s story? Pulling the identical card trick on a much bigger scale is a bet however we’ll see if it pays off come 2026 with the discharge of Avengers: Doomsday.

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