loki-freyjason reblogged
HOLY SHIT WHAT HOW DID I MISS THIS ARTICLE BEFORE!!!! D:
(copying the bits that interested me most, there are more in that link):
(…) writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely also answer a batch of fan questions which reveal alternate and deleted ideas and scenes for the movie.
• It’s revealed that following Infinity War, they couldn’t figure out what to do with Thanos in The Avengers: Endgame until a producer came up with the idea to kill Thanos. Once the producer came up with the suggestion, they explored the idea and found it could work.
• They originally had Thor at the start of The Avengers: Endgame on a mission of vengeance but realized he is always on a mission of vengeance and always fails so he became Fat Thor.
• Kevin Feige came up with the idea of time travel.
McFEELY Kevin [Feige] at one point said, I would like to use the Time Stone, or use time as an element. It let us spend a few weeks seeing what’s the kookiest thing we could do with time and not break the movie. MARKUS We all sat there going, really? We’re going to do time travel? It was only when we were looking at who we had available, character-wise; we hadn’t used Ant-Man yet. And there really is, in people’s theory of the Quantum Realm, a time thing in the M.C.U., right now, available to us, with a character we haven’t used yet. We have a loophole that’s not cheating.
• They reveal in the first draft of The Avengers: Endgame they weren’t going to go back to the first The Avengers movie, but to Asgard where Iron Man would be wearing a stealth suit and battle Heimdall who could see him.
• Thor was going to have long scenes with Natalie Portman.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy Peter Quill Morag scene was originally a lot grander and more epic in scope, but “hugely complicated”
• There was a version where Hawkeye dies instead of Black Widow but the visual effects producer was against the idea and said, “Don’t you take this away from her.”
• Tony Stark dead at the end was always the outcome.
• Cap was always going to have a happy ending.
I KNEW IT I FUCKING KNEW IT THEY WROTE THIS DAMN THING BY THE SEAT OF THEIR PANTS
F*ck.
Guys… these people got paid for this sh*t! … no words