I am such a huge fan of all of the Marvel films. The first Avengers to me
was like mind-blowing. I saw it at least 10 times since it's come out,
Age of Ultron, also maybe like seven times. I love Civil Wars. This one is like
the most epic of all of them. Where do you guys start? I don't know. I mean look
this is, what's interesting, what's fascinating about this film, is that I
don't think that this movie could have been made without a team film supporting it.
You couldn't take this many movie stars, this many characters from
different franchises and put them together in one film and tell a coherent
story, without the audience having that emotional connection to all of these characters.
And it makes for a very unique film, because you're bringing all
these different tones, and you're mashing them together, and it's very, it moves
very quickly from location to location, and the audience seems to shift with it
pretty fluidly. So, it's been a really fun experiment. I also think you
can't just throw all of these amazing actors and superheroes into one film and
expect it just to work. So, I'm sure there also has to be a very powerful story,
some character arcs, some more dimension to the characters that we're going to see.
What else can we expect? Yeah, I mean that, yeah, I mean, for Joe and I, it's just
a very deep commitment to storytelling. That's the way we approach these
movies. And I mean, we look for, these characters are characters we've come to
love over the course of many years, and in fashioning the stories, we think about
how we can take advantage of that, how we can sort of combine the characters in
ways that are surprising or unexpected. Where can we take each character's
story line where they haven't gone before, and just what's those rich
character moments? Because I think for for all the appeal of these movies, for
all of the spectacle, at the end of the day, I think it's these character moments,
it's the character interactions that audiences walk away with and enjoy the
most. To me, the most exciting thing is going to be able to see characters from
Guardians and characters from The Avengers that have never been in a film
together, but their dynamics are gonna be so different, and to see someone like
Chris Pratt next to Robert Downey Jr. is gonna be amazing. Who were the
characters that you were so excited to put in a scene together?
I mean it's all of them. I mean it's what so unique about the movie. It's ten
years in the making, and we knew that that that would be the thing that I
think was most attractive to the audience about the film was the
character interactions, that all of your favorite characters finally in one movie
together. And I think, you know, it's when you take Tony Stark, who's a
man of science and a narcissist, and you put him in a room with Dr. Strange,
who's a man of magic and a narcissist, you're gonna wind up with a very
interesting dynamic. Same is true when you Thor from Ragnarok and you
put him with the Guardians, and you know it's gonna be a lot of humor, and a lot
of quirky interactions. So you know, we loved putting them all together. That was
really a focus of ours in the movie was you know, creating really unique
circumstances for the characters to meet under. The last Marvel film you guys
worked on was Civil War. How are the vibes on set different than
the vibes on set for Infinity War? Well you know, on a personal level, you
know this story is very much, this Avengers movie is very much a
continuation of the story we were telling in Civil War. So I think that for
us there's a very natural progression from that movie to this movie. The big
difference, of course, is there are many actors in this film that didn't appear
in Civil War. So we have a whole range of characters and tones and ideas that are
being brought to the table in this film, that we hadn't been playing with before.
So I think it's a very combustible mix, and the actors were very,
as excited as we were to have the opportunity to perform with one
another and explore each other's characters together. It was, I think, it
was a really sort of fulfilling, creative experience for all of us.
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