Avengers: Endgame – Everything you need to know about Marvel’s epic final battle
- Director Anthony Russo talks about Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Thanos and the end of a long story arc
- Russo and his co-director brother Joe are comic fans and this is reflected in their work
Black Panther. Spider-Man. Doctor Strange. Bucky Barnes. Scarlet Witch. Groot. Those casualties are just a portion of the death toll from Avengers: Infinity War that still has superhero fans reeling. Fortunately for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, original Avengers Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jnr) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) are still kicking.
And in the hotly anticipated follow-up, Avengers: Endgame, the good guys are teaming up with other surviving heroes to avenge the fallen and take the fight yet again to Thanos (Josh Brolin), the cosmic villain who used the all-powerful Infinity Stones to erase half of the life in the universe.
But the plot is really sketchy going into this culminating chapter of the 20-plus Marvel films so far since 2008’s Iron Man. You can bet, though, that there’ll be at least one, and probably multiple, end-credits scenes, perhaps setting up what Marvel’s future will look like.
We talk with Anthony Russo, who directed Infinity War and Endgame alongside brother Joe, about what everyone needs to know about the newest Marvel blockbuster:
Iron Man remains an extremely combustible guy