Joe and Anthony Russo have tackled large movies throughout their careers, however the two upcoming superhero films they’re about to helm may very well be their largest enterprise but. The sibling filmmakers are reuniting with Marvel Studios to direct the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. Whereas lots of the specifics are being stored underneath wraps, the duo have supplied some perception into their strategy to the blockbusters. As a part of that, they defined the extremely tedious method they’re preserving monitor of the characters at their disposal.
After they made Avengers: Infinity Warfare and Endgame, the Russos had been additionally ready by which they needed to stability a copious quantity of characters. So that they needed to set up a way of monitoring heroes and villains at that time as effectively. It’s been mentioned that the administrators needed to depend on playing cards in an effort to account for everybody concerned within the narratives. And, as they only revealed, that’ll nonetheless be their course of on the subject of these information flicks:
Anthony Russo: Sure, we proceed to make use of the baseball playing cards.
Joe Russo: Now they’ve magnets on them so we are able to put ‘em on a board and have a look at ‘em. It’s the one method to maintain monitor of the quantity of characters that we’re working with.
Contemplating it’s “the one method” for the Russos to handle the characters, I’d hope that this technique is useful. Nonetheless, the considered being in a room surrounded by all of these playing cards simply sounds daunting. I’m a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan, who’s fairly conversant in the largest gamers within the franchise, however the stage of problem-solving concerned on this artistic course of looks as if quite a bit. Through the brothers’ interview with THR, Anthony Russo shared extra ideas on their strategy to dealing with characters:
And so far as how can we have a look at who’s within the films, it’s only a lengthy artistic technique of exploring the place we wish to take the story. What’s the most stunning and thrilling space for us to push into, and which characters assist us in that effort?
The Russo Brothers and their collaborators have principally been tight-lipped in regard to which characters are set to be featured in Doomsday and Secret Wars. Sam Wilson (Captain America), the Implausible 4 and a handful of others have been confirmed for the upcoming Marvel films. Nonetheless, there are nonetheless loads of acquainted faces (and a few newcomers) that may very well be within the fold as effectively. One additionally has to contemplate that heroes from the varied TV exhibits at the moment are in play, too. As time-consuming because the character-picking course of appears to be, I’d like to be a fly on the wall when the Russos are going via the method.
What is understood concerning the pair of movies is that they’ll draw inspiration from Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars storyline of the comics. If I may take an informed guess, the tales will most likely convey collectively varied heroes of the MCU and contain multiversal components. Physician Doom, performed by the returning Robert Downey Jr., is touted because the Large Dangerous. Anthony and Joe Russo have mentioned the method of crafting Doom and say that Downey has been very fingers on.
I’m curious to see who the Russos find yourself plugging into the movies and the way. Though this can be a large job, their prior expertise with this course of possible advantages them immensely. Let’s simply hope they don’t find yourself buried underneath a mountain of playing cards. Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars open in theaters on Could 1, 2026 and Could 7, 2027, respectively. Within the meantime, seize a Disney+ subscription to stream the Marvel films so as.