STOP! THANOS TIME
1 OPENING ON HAWKEYE’S LOST FAMILY
It’s been 11 years and 22 movies in the making and, several viewings later, we’re just about starting to process just what the hell happened in all three hours and one minute of Avengers: Endgame. When we left the pictures — crying, whooping, cradling each other gently — we assembled a burning list of questions, wonderings and what-the-fuck moments. And over the next eight pages we’re going to dive into the most burning ones of all, with a little help from some very special filmmaking guests…
Christopher Markus:
We shot it with the intention of putting it in Infinity War. You’ve been wondering where Clint was? Here, we’re going to use him to illustrate what just happened with the snap... It worked like gangbusters to depress the hell out of you at the beginning of Endgame, and to really hit home how much that Snap sucked.
2 FIVE… YEARS… LATER
Anthony Russo: We loved the idea that the Avengers were meant to correct what Thanos had done, but Thanos had destroyed the means by which they could. It just seems that our heroes have really nowhere to go. And that was our set-up for ‘five years later’.
This was inspired by a choice Noah Hawley made in Season 1. I think he kills Billy Bob Thornton as the villain of the season in episode eight or nine [actually ten], and I remember sitting at home going, “Where the fuck is he going to go? What is going to happen?” And then he cuts to one year later and I went, “That’s genius.” You see the ramifications of that. So, we said, “Now where do we go? Let’s go to a year later. No, that’s not enough. Let’s do two years later. No, five years later.” What would happen over the course of those five years? Well, all the characters would be very different because they’ve all suffered an
