I'm going to begin guys, I mean this is such a daunting proposition I mean you've got
a lot of characters to fit into this film but it must have been a really
enjoyable proposition at the same time?
Yeah I mean any like any you know any
challenge is also a creative opportunity so look the the the ability to have this
many loved characters in a single film played by this many talented actors is
like an amazing gift to directors so yeah we were first quite difficult is
what it was to make it work it was also a great pleasure and opportunity.
Was it like a balancing act in the editing job sort of like when you've got all of the kind
of footage available going right we need to make sure this person's on screen for
this amount of time and this person gets their arc developed too
Was it really in the edit where this you felt this really came to life?
For Joe and I it cleans everything up for us is is it's always about the storytelling so
what does the story want was this story need these are wonderful
array of characters but they all need to be servicing the the story at every
given moment in the best possible way in order to work so it's not a it's not a
really a sense of like having an obligation to service characters it's
about how what can you do with those characters to make the story come to
life more.
So who's your favourite character?
Changes I think a lot you know
only because as a kid I used to collect spider-man comics and I'd say spider-man.
Because I just I'm just watching whenever you see fault meet the kind of
Guardians collective and that in that scene I mean it's one those amazing
moments were you there's some cards you never imagined you'd see them in the
kind of same place did you get those moments on set that would kind of almost
like but you almost became a fan as well is that something that only you really
appreciate after the whole projects over the way you're able to go wow
that was pretty cool?
No no it's like you're describing in the moment we would
have those it's like you can't believe you're combining these two elements that
you never thought could be smashed into one another before and that's that's the
fun of it but yeah we pinch ourselves all the time while we're doing it and
the actors do too I mean the actors find it a really remarkable occurrence to be
like encountering these characters that weren't in there character view before.
And a word on the tone I mean this is an incredible
ability across all of Marvel and from what I have seen at this film this
ability to be very playful to have kind of one-liners and there's one
scene where Iron Man and Doctor Strange where they're they're talking about this
kind of impending doom and that the threat of finals and they still throw in
jokes how is difficult is it to get those kind of moments in and not
compromise?
It's a balancing act I mean because always we want we you
know we care about stakes in their Super Hero films and we want to make sure
that the characters paying the proper respect a lot of times you deal with
intense situations through humor and a lot of Marvel characters tend to do that
as well but you know the movie certainly does shift tones depending on who's in
it and when and Thanos certainly brings a tone all his own to the film because
he's not he's not messing around.
Yeah he's quite a quite a villain I mean
there's in every super hero movie that the villain is is as important as anything
else I mean he seems pretty indestructible that that is what must
make this such a great project I guess in the sense that it seems like they've
got something completely impossible to overcome.
Well exactly it's like Death
comes to call for the Avengers this is a nearly unbeatable force who is
determined to destroy half the life in the universe to bring it into balance he
sees it as an as an overgrown garden that he needs to prune and as you
mentioned he is fairly invincible he's this sort of you know genetic mutation
who's the genghis khan of the universe is unbeatable on the battlefield and
stronger than the Hulk skin is invincible so it really is a it's gonna
cost the Avengers something that to to defeat him.
And of course this is there's
gonna be sort of a second part in some regard. I mean when
you often get with two part in franchises you
it ends on a kind of cliffhanger and always feels like half of one movie but
it sounds like this is actually more of a complete film that's quite different
to the next is that is that going to be the case in this instance?
I mean that was their intention
you know we really wanted to you know we Joe and I always looked at it like in
the same way we presented the the Winter Soldier as a complete film Civil War is a complete film
but there was a narrative thread that connected them
Civil War pushes forward to Infinity War Infinity War will push forward into
the fourth Avengers movie and so there is a narrative thread but
we wanted them to be their own unique expressions.
And just finally when can we
expect the title of the next one? And you can tell me about I won't tell anyone I promise
Not quite some time we're excited to tell people but
it's gonna be a while.
Well it was worth a go! Thank you guys much appreciated.