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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Shot Without a Finished Script, but Co-Director Joe Russo Says ‘We Always View’ the Screenplay as a ‘Living Organism’

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“Avengers: Doomsday” going into production without a finished script did not faze directors Joe and Anthony Russo. As the former recently told the Associated Press: “We always view the script as a living organism.”

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“We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors,” Joe maintained. “We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.”

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The Russo Brothers are making their grand return to Marvel with “Doomsday,” which marks their first MCU tentpole since the record-breaking “Avengers: Endgame.” The duo had not planned to come back for the next “Avengers” movie, which was originally going to be “The Kang Dynasty” and feature Jonathan Majors as the new Thanos-sized villain. But Majors got the boot from Marvel amid legal troubles, and the fifth “Avengers” movie had to be overhauled. That’s when the Russo Brothers stepped in alongside Robert Downey Jr., who is rejoining the MCU after the end of his Iron Man tenure to debut as the villainous Doctor Doom.

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“The thing that Joe and I have always appreciated about our collaboration with Marvel is: Our…

Original source: https://variety.com/

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