Avengers: Endgame writers discuss film's devastating deaths
'If you’re going to take people off the board, they’ve got to go for real'
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Your support makes all the difference.Avengers: Endgame didn’t pull many punches when it came to heartbreaking deaths, and the team behind the movie have spoken candidly about whether any of these departures can be reversed.
In an interview with Empire, writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely stated that it was extremely unlikely that a new version of fan favourites – such as Iron Man or Black Widow – will make a return somewhere down the line, using different actors.
“It’s the nature of the MCU. It’s not a place where you can reboot one and suddenly Iron Man is 15 years old and everyone else is still the same age,” Markus said.“The characters have to pass out, and the universe has to still stand. So if you’re going to take people off the board, they’ve got to go for real.”
Then again, promises were not definitively made. More specifically, Markus did not deny that a certain type of resurrection could happen for Vision in upcoming TV show WandaVision, which is reported to continue the romance between Scarlet Witch and the doomed bot-turned-superhero.
“Granted, these are movies,” Markus added. “I understand that somebody has made some kind of announcement that has the word ‘Vision’ in it, so I mean...”
Stephen McFeely also discussed the absence of the Black Widow/Hulk romantic storyline in Avengers: Endgame on Empire‘s podcast, calling the decision to omit references to the superheroes’ relationship (or lack thereof) as the “more elegant” option.
He added: “It [would] seem a little odd, in the midst of everyone’s mourning and [Hulk’s] change to a 2,000-pound genius, to go, ‘And they’re dating!’”
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