Avengers: Endgame
Now thatAvengers : Endgamehas finally been released and its all - spoiler - sleep with screenwriter Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have a Brobdingnagian weight swipe off their shoulders , they ’ve been uncover a lot of picture that were in their earlier draft of the book .
It ’s been interesting to considerthe moments that almost made it into the movieand determine whether or not they would ’ve improved or hurtthe Marvel epic we ’ve been waiting 11 days to see . These early - draught mind roll from giant concepts to slightly tweaked versions of what we got . Here are 10 Scenes That Were Almost InAvengers : Endgame , According To The Writers .
Thanos snaps his fingers inEndgame, notInfinity War
We all commend the chilling ending ofAvengers : Infinity War . Thanos gathered all the Infinity Stones , snapped his digit , and half the Avengers turned to rubble without explanation . Then the motion-picture show terminate . It seemed like the gross stopping point . The villain won and we ’d have to wait a whole year to determine out what pass off next .
But according to Christopher Markus , Infinity Warinitially did n’t end with the snap : “ If you had block it before he snapped his fingers , or with four Stones , that really is just a intermission push button . That really is just decease , ‘ What ’s he going to do ? Will your grinder stop over dangle from the drop ? ’ And we want to put a much more classical , ‘ Yes , this happens ; deal with it , ’ tone at the end of it , rather than jerk you around . ”
Thor fights his past self
One of the most fun and unexpected chronological sequence inAvengers : Endgamewas the scene in which Captain America fights his past ego . Ofall the fights we expected to see in the movie , Captain America versus himself was n’t one of them . Apparently , in an early selective service , it was Thor who fought his past self .
What made the Cap - on - Cap fight so thrilling was that 2012 Cap was younger and more virile than 2023 Cap . A Thor - on - Thor fighting might have been even more thrilling , since 2013 Thor was in far good bod than 2023 ’s so - call “ Lebowski Thor . ” Then again , we ’ll never know , so we have to just commit the author ’ judicial decision .
Tony Stark goes to Asgard
According to the writer , in the first draft of theEndgamescript , the sub did n’t go back in time to the Battle of New York . There was originally a very different plan : “ In the first rough drawing , we did n’t go back to the [ original]Avengersmovie . We went back to Asgard .
But there ’s a moment in the MCU , if you ’re paying very near attention , where the Aether is there and the Tesseract is in the vault . In that iteration , we were concerned in Tony go to Asgard . He had a stealth suit , so he was invisible , and he fought Heimdall , who could see him . ”
A big mid-battle conversation scene
According to Christopher Markus , the final struggle scene inEndgamewas originally even farseeing , which apparently had “ its own three - act structure . ” However , he lay claim a mid - battle conversation view was cut because it felt inorganic :
“ We had a scene in a trench where , for reasons , the battle got pause for about three minute of arc and now , there ’s 18 peopleall go , ‘ What are we go to do ? ’ ‘ I ’m going to do this . ’ ‘ I ’m going to do this . ’ Just bound around this completely fake , fallacious picture . When you have that many the great unwashed , it constantly is , one line , one argument , one rail line . And that ’s not a natural conversation . ”
The same Morag scene, but set underwater
The scene set on Morag – where Peter Quill finds the Power Stone andWar Machine and Nebula journey back in timeto nail it from him – was originally “ staggeringly complicated , ” fit in to Christopher Markus . Stephen McFeely expound on what the scene would ’ve look like and why it did n’t check the story :
“ It was subaqueous ! That was clever , but it was just too big a set piece . What that did n’t do is allow for Thanos and his daughters to get on the trail at the right here and now . So , we went back to when Peter Quill was there . And we recognize that when you could plug Quill in the case , it ’s hilarious . I still think it ’s hilarious . ”
No “I am Iron Man” moment
The Infinity Saga did n’t total truly full - rope until Thanos said , “ I am inevitable , ” andTony Stark stole his Infinity Stones and said , “ Yeah , and I ’m Iron Man . ”The 22 - film journeying begin when Tony say that at the end of 2008’sIron Man , so it provide a satisfying finis when he read it again . obviously , it was n’t in the original script .
The Russos explain , “ Tony used to not say anything in that second . And we were in the redaction room proceed , ‘ He has to say something . This a character who has lived and died by quips . ’ And we just could n’t . We essay a million different last line of credit . Thanos was articulate , ‘ I am inevitable , ’ and our editor in chief Jeff Ford , who ’s been with us all four movie and is an amazing storyteller , said , ‘ Why do n’t we just go full Mexican valium with it and say , “ I am Iron Man ? ” ’ And we ’re like , ‘ Get the cameras ! We have to photograph this tomorrow . ’ ”
Thor is driven by vengeance instead of weight gain and alcoholism
harmonise to Christopher Markus , Thor ’s transformation intoan overweight alcoholic who resemble Jeff “ the Dude ” Lebowskiwas not their first choice for the character’sEndgamearc . He said , “ When we were spitballing forEndgame , we started with , ‘ Thor ’s on a commission of payback . ’ And then we were like , ‘ He was on a mission of retribution in the last flick . This is all this cat ever does ! And [ he ] fails , all the time . Let ’s drive him into a paries and see what happens . ’ ”
They racked their brains to come up with the final version : “ He just got drunk and productive . ” Chris Hemsworth had previously asked the writers to make Thor funnier inInfinity Waras he ’d been transmute inThor : Ragnarok .
The Living Tribunal joins the MCU
accord to theEndgamewriters , an former draft would ’ve usher in us to the Living Tribunal , an all - powerful cosmic entity with three foreland that represent as a judge presiding overother all - knock-down cosmic beings in the Marvel universe , such as Death and Eternity .
However , fit in to Stephen McFeely , it just did n’t fit in : “ It would point a whole dissimilar level of architecture to the world and I cerebrate that was too much to just throw in . ”Endgameisalready a busy film , with dozens of main casting members , so introducing a whole young superpowered character might ’ve been a step too far .
Hawkeye sacrifices himself on Vormir instead of Black Widow
The Vormir scene is one of the most controversial sequence inAvengers : Endgame . A flock of fansfelt that the scene failed Black Widow , who sacrifice herself to gain the Soul Stone . For a while during that shot , it was unclear who would make the sacrifice .
Co - writer Stephen McFeely has excuse that in an other draft , Hawkeye ‘ gain ’ and sacrifice himself , saving Black Widow , but a female work party member who found Widow ’s sacrifice empowering changed their mind : “ Jen Underdahl , our optic gist producer , read an outline or draft where Hawkeye pass over . And she run , ‘ Do n’t you take this away from her . ’ I really get excited thought about it . ”
Tony has a vision of grown-up Morgan after snapping his fingers
The surprising ending ofAvengers : Endgamesaw Tony Stark nab the Infinity Stones from Thanos , do a finger - snap of his own to secure everything , and thendie in Pepper ’s weaponry . For months now , Marvel fans have been speculating about what role13 Reasons Whystar Katherine Langford might be playing inEndgame . In the final cut of the flick , she ’s nowhere to be view .
Apparently , she appear in a imaginativeness that Tony would ’ve had after snapping his fingers . He ’d go to what Joe Russo call “ the metaphysical way of life station ” where Thanos regain quiet after snapping his own fingers . There , he’d see a teenage Morgan order him what he did to save the world , despite leaving her to grow up fatherless , was okay . accord to Anthony Russo , they make out it for a good reason : “ What we realized about it was we did n’t feel an emotional association with the grownup interpretation of his girl . So , it was n’t ringing to us and resonating with us on an excited level . ”
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