Avengers 4: Endgame (Joe & Anthony Russo April 26, 2019) Movie • Page 94

After Wednesday the film is at $1.63 billion. Its made more than the first Avengers in 6 days.

 

I'm torn 'cause Guardians 2 is my favorite MCU film, & Thor: Ragnarok is my second favorite, but I really wouldn't wanna see the mighty Chris Hemsworth steal the show too much from the core Guardians roster. Those films have really been a special playground for James Gunn & the misfit family he's built from scratch, & Thor's grown into such a scene-stealing delight.

Granted, I trust Gunn to make it work, if that's the direction he goes in. And, his story already got interrupted by Gamora's reboot in these Avengers films, plus the big time jump after two films that happen within the same year. But, still. I'm happy w/ Thor's journey. I'd rather see arcs for Quill, Nebula, etc., over another Thor arc.

 

Unless he's said something on this subject recently that I haven't seen, I doubt that his story was interrupted by anything that happened in IW/Endgame. The plot for these movies was sketched out a year before GOTG2 was released, and they were filmed back-to-back in 2017, likely well before he started writing GOTG3. Feige had to have looped him in on where the story would be before he started writing. Plus, before he was re-hired they announced they'd be using his script as-written, knowing fully what happens at the end of Endgame. The GOTG3 script probably already incorporates Thor and new Gamora.

 

Damn, that HISHE video I just shared reminded me how touching that scene was between Happy and Tony's daughter at the end. So heartbreaking and sweet at the same time.

 

I actually felt the opposite - I loved GOTG 1&2 but I'm okay with Thor being part of the Guardians storylines. Partially because we finally got the Thor we deserved with Ragnarok and I'm just not ready to see that end yet, especially after losing Cap and Iron Man. Plus I love the Thor and "Rabbit" dynamic.

There's a 90% chance this is also because I'm still pissed off at Infinity War Quill and because Chris Pratt is such a, well, prat so I'm projecting HARD all over the film but hey. I'm human! I definitely understand where you're coming from though.

 

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I really enjoy this take on changing one aspect of the film. I think it makes sense thematically.

 

GotG 3 also needs to introduce Adam Warlock, and my way too soon guess is that he'll be pretty essential to the film's plot.

 

I really thought Nebula would play a bigger role in taking Thanos down

 

Avengers: Endgame Audience May Have Been Exposed to Measles in California

 

Ugh. I'm a scientist working in biomedical research. Morale is so low when we are all read stuff like that.

 

It's truly amazing how stupid people can be, especially when we can clearly see out breaks happening all over the place now due to this lunacy

 

Thanos might've had a point if he'd limited it to anti-vaxxers

 

See, I don't think "planned" is mutually exclusive with "interruption." Gunn got to be a producer on these movies & work on his films knowing what was happening, but he still had to write his films around others' stories w/ his characters.

Which, granted, is built into Marvel & DC storytelling, & is something I normally defend more than most people. But, it happening to a filmmaker's deeply personal (for a genre blockbuster) film trilogy bothers me more than it happening to an ongoing monthly comic (like Ms Marvel) during a summer event story. I'd compare this happening to Gunn's Guardians to if it happened to Matt Fraction's Hawkeye or Tom King's Vision.

I love the collaborative nature of superhero storytelling & think singular visions are needlessly romanticized, but it is still nice having some creative output get to be more personal & singular. Sure, Nicole Perlman got the Guardians film train going, & Kevin Feige's been there along the way, but Guardians felt like the closest we'd get to mostly one voice guiding a full trilogy. While it's still three films written & directed by one person, I'll always wonder what Gunn would've come up with to end his story w/out having to work around Markus, McFeely, & the Russos' ideas.

Yeah, I can understand all that, & I do wanna see more Thor, but the Guardians films hold a pretty special place in my heart. I would've sooner had him become the king of New Asgard that Ragnarok teased & be the one original Avenger still on the inevitable "New Avengers" roster, or maybe integrated into a new franchise.

In spite of my reservations, I'm not really gonna be mad at more post-Ragnarok Thor, especially at the hands of James Gunn.

I do wonder how they'll take a film that's clearly set up to center around Gamora, & have it also center around Adam Warlock. Though, Gunn did weave Ego, the Ravagers, & the Sovereign into an incredibly tight story about moving past trauma & into real family, so I'm sure it'll work out fine.

 

I can't be upset about the king of New Asgard thing because I'm really hoping this means Valkyrie will get her own movie now haha but I hear you

 

I think Tessa Thompson is my favorite movie star right now, so yeah, more Valkyrie in any capacity is a win for me. I was so thankful to see her, however briefly, in Endgame.

 

Maybe the supposed "Thor 4" movie that was pitched is actually a Valkyrie movie, and Guardians will be Thor's last main outing. But who knows.

But yeah, Tessa is awesome and her on her Pegasus in Endgame was fucking rad.

 

Make a Valkyrie film where Jane Foster becomes a Valkyrie, & also bring back Sif. Obviously w/ Tessa Thompson as the lead, but give us justice for those poor previous Thor supporting ladies. Heck, find a way to snipe almost Thor 2 director Patty Jenkins from Wonder Woman, lol.

 

Who would you recast as Jane? Safe to assume Natalie probably wouldn't come back, and not sure Patty would leave WW, but I guess crazier things have happened.

 

I'm pretty sure Natalie Portman would return if asked. She was at the Endgame premiere. If she was done with the MCU then I think she would have turned down the offer to walk the carpet for one of their films.

 

Oh, if there's not a 0% chance they'd get Patty, then the chance at least mathematically approaches 0, lol. Just a fun random thought, on the note of women connected to Thor that never got their due.

Likewise for Natalie Portman, though I think that one has some chance, if the right filmmaker w/ the right script approached her at the right time. It is a different MCU than it was in those years between Avengers' success & Feige no longer having to answer to Perlmutter. (Like, Hela in Ragnarok couldn't have happened then.) I don't necessarily think it will happen, but I think it realistically could. And, if they didn't get her to return, I wouldn't use Jane again; Jason Aaron made her cool in the comics, but for the MCU, I mostly just want redemption for Portman's poor, underutilized character.

 

I still haven't seen Thor 2.