Directors and screenwriters talk about ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
The epic extravaganza, which opened in cinemas across China on Friday, is described as fun and challenging to work on
The highly-anticipated superhero movie “Avengers: Infinity War” opened in China on Friday, fanning the flame of a decade-long craze for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series.
Before the movie’s release, sibling directors Joe and Anthony Russo, and screenwriters, said the epic extravaganza was challenging and fun to work on.
Infinity War, the 19th movie of the MCU since Iron Man which came out 10 years ago, brings together dozens of superheroes and characters from earlier episodes for a fight against the Mad Titan Thanos.
It was not easy to balance the record number of MCU characters in Infinity War and its untitled sequel, the Russo brothers said.
There were not “a lot of models that we can look to, for example of how you make something like this work on a dramatic level, on a structure level, as storytellers”, Anthony Russo said.
On any given day we might have 50 superheroes in one shot and there are truckloads of props that we bring in
Anthony said he and his younger brother spent a long time trying to figure that out and reworking the material to a place where they “feel like giving all of these characters their due within the story”.
There were “a lot of miles under the hood of these characters and the audience has a strong connection to them … we have to do a storytelling that brings them together in a satisfying way and tells a really compelling story”, Joe said.