Even by the standards of three-hour films, Avengers: Endgame packs a lot of content into its runtime, but one sequence that some fans spent the entire movie waiting for was the oft-predicted “rematch” between Hulk and Thanos.
On the newly available commentary track for the Avengers: Endgame digital release, the team behind the highest grossing film of all time took the opportunity to share a few thoughts on the joke that put the “ass” in “Avengers assemble.”
Though Avengers: Endgame left us with quite a few loose ends that future projects may or may not address, perhaps none have inspired more debate than the conclusion to Steve Rogers’ journey.
Stretching across more than 1,100 pages, the story of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It is a lot to pack into even two movies, but going by the recently revealed runtime for the upcoming It: Chapter Two, it sounds like director Andy Muschietti is hoping to deliver a cinematic saga that rivals the scope of his source material.
In retrospect, you have to wonder why there was ever any doubt that Avengers: Endgame would pass Avatar to become the highest grossing film of all time. After all, the MCU fanbase isn’t just insanely big, but in many cases, they’re also frighteningly dedicated.
If various reports from the past few months are anything to go by, then Matt Reeves’ The Batman will feature at least six famous DC villains, including The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman. From the sound of things, Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne is going to have his hands rather full in his big screen debut, but should Warner Bros. want to squeeze in one more nemesis for the Caped Crusader to fight, some new fan art from William Gray offers a suggestion.
Having spent the last eight years as a supporting player in the MCU, Clint Barton is finally getting his own vehicle with the upcoming Hawkeye TV show. Though we’d been hearing reports for some time about the archer landing a Disney Plus series, the news only just became official at last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con. But now that the cat’s out of the bag, Jeremy Renner has spent these last few days hyping up the the project through his various social media accounts.
Jane Foster’s cameo in Avengers: Endgame was so brief that Natalie Portman didn’t even need to film any new scenes for it. Instead, co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo used old footage from 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, though the actress was still called on to do a little voice work. In an early version of the script, however, it seems that the God of Thunder’s ex was given a lot more screen time opposite both Thor himself and his little raccoon companion.
Between the recent success of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and a pair of scene-stealing turns in Toy Story 4 and Always Be My Maybe, Keanu Reeves’ acting career is currently in the best place it’s been in many years. So when Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige mentioned last month that he and his team have approached the star for almost every movie they make, the online fancasts came thick and fast.
Earlier this month, Avengers: Endgame co-writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely revealed that early plans for the movie saw the 2014 version of Thanos kill all the Avengers in his timeline before meeting up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the present day. And if that idea wasn’t dark enough, the pair also said that the Mad Titan was originally going to confront the main timeline’s heroes while carrying the severed head of Captain America.
