This guy claims he worked on the movie take this with a grain of salt
First of all, you don't have to attack me if you don't believe. I'm not asking you to believe in what you're reading - just watch the movie and luckily you'll remember where you saw it.
I'm a worker on contract basis for one of the production companies that got its contract with the production (Infinity War/Endgame) terminated. It happened because someone (that wasn't me) was leaking information on 4Chan and here, and they (Disney police) weren't able to confirm the source but they had a general idea where it came from, so this company and other two production companies got kicked out of the game.
First of all, from the very first day I joined the project, the title was always Endgame and I heard from the directors themselves the title was set years ago. When they got hired for Captain America 2, Very early Marvel was impressed with the script and the pitch and went ahead to offer them (the Bros., Markus, and McFeely) Civil War and Avengers 3/4. We heard whispers from inside that Disney marketing team has been planting information on the internet with key people to build online buzz, including toy leaks and the fake title, in this case, was to build a surprise effect when the real title was released.
Basically, the idea to shoot scenes for Avengers 4 with Infinity War felt short at the time we were shooting it. Everyone in the production was feeling the tone for both movies didn't match. The actors complained, the directors were aware of it but it but Disney was putting pressure. Financially, it'd cost much less for them to shoot a big part of Endgame concurrently with Infinity War. Plus, they had the issue to negotiate an extension to the actors’ contract.
That's why Endgame had 4 reshoots: to redo almost everything from the ground up. Very few members of the press are aware of this number. And when we were supposed to return for #4, Disney gave us a boot.
Regarding the movie, oh boy, I don't know what to say. To be honest, the script went through profound alterations. I'll tell you a huge one: Captain Marvel.
The Russo Brothers and McFeely/Markus didn't want to include Captain Marvel at all on Infinity War and on Endgame. They felt the story deserved to end up with the original characters, but Disney and Marvel Studios desperately wanted to introduce Carol Danvers on Avengers Infinity War. The idea was to later give her own origin movie boosted up by the Avengers.
Naturally, they had an argument that ended up with both sides making concessions. They excluded Captain Marvel from Infinity War but had to include the character on Endgame. Just to shut off this matter, the Captain Marvel rant we are seeing today was expected by Disney. Their social media numbers projected the CM movie to face challenges and they ordered from everyone involved to prepare for two cuts: one with the original CM plan, another cutting down the character's participation in case Captain Marvel flops. This created huge conflicts between Brie Larson's agency and especially Marvel Studios. They went as far as to shoot some of the very same Captain Marvel action scenes with Captain America and Black Widow replacing the character in an attempt to keep the inflated budget down. Brie Larson treats everyone well but she's very contesting and she contested the hell out of this decision, until Marvel Studios was forced to shoot those scenes in different days, which resulted in more spending.
Returning to the movie, the leaks weren't a 100% accurate and they'll never be on the final movie. As I said, they changed a lot the script on the fly. Shooting the movie in 4 parts faced many challenges, like to keep the actors on their superhero shape (yes Chris Pratt, I'm pointing at you), but it allowed them to do a fine tuning. Plus, the fake script is a real thing and they can trace back the source of the leak by the content getting a general idea where it originated from.
So, until I was involved this is what I know about the movie:
- Captain Marvel has an alliance with the Nova Force.
- The movie starts with Captain Marvel investigating a distress call from Xander before the decimation.
- Rhomann Dey's family gets dusted in from of him and Captain Marvel. CM gets a notification from Fury but she can't go because Rhomann Dey is going after Thanos and she wasn't able to convince him.
- CM owes to the Nova Troop and especially to Rhomann because she wasn't around when Ronan attacked.
- Ant-Man will explore the Quantum Realm before falling on a time vortex (that based on the arts I've seen it looks more like a stream). He thinks he made a bad decision when he realizes he's in 1996, right after Captain Marvel leaves.
- The thing is, he had to go to this specific timeline to get a Kree device from Fury.
- Fury thinks Scott Lang is a Skrull and he nicely jokes that "Oh god... I almost didn't recognize you without the eyepatch. You are the spy that helped me to get home arrest after helping Captain America".
- This is how Nick Fury discovers Captain America was still alive.
- In the Benatar, Tony and Nebula learn that Rocket started the installation of a Quantum System that makes possible to jump between different points on the Universe, but they don't have enough power. Nebula finds out one remaining Anulax Battery on the Benatar and that's how they'll power it up and with parts inside the ship, they finish the job. The scene on the Super Bowl Spot in the Avengers facility is when they're arriving (Paul Rudd and Sean Gunn are in that scene by the way). Rocket is the one saving them from crashing on Earth.
- The Rescue suit is created after Tony returns. Pepper will end up saving him at the.
- Dey and Marvel will arrive in Titan 2 and they'll see Thanos standing still waiting for them with the damaged Gauntlet. The thing is, he thought his work was done and he never bothered to recover the Gauntlet. Thanos recovers the Gauntlet with the Reality, Power and the Time Stone. Captain Marvel attacks with all she got but she can't keep up with the Gauntlet. Thanos will hold CM by the neck and he knows her powers come from the Space Stone. He starts to extract the energy from her with the power stone and delivers is back to the Space Stone but Rhomann Dey interfered, preventing Thanos from killing her. Yes, you've got to check his suit. It's full Nova Force.
- The Avengers suits are created as life support for the Quantum Realm and the outer space.
- Yes, they're revisiting the past movies. Ultron is in the movie but only when they visit the events of Age Of Ultron and they're using previously footage from James Spader that he recorded in 2014. Spader only returned to voice over for Endgame.
- They're not stealing the stones in the past, they're copying each of them.
- They have a lot of data from Vision and they know the molecular structure of it, it's similar to the one created by Tony Stark in one of his movies.
- The professor Hulk is controlled using BARF technology.
- They tried a prototype using Vibranium but it fails for being unstable. They end up building the Gauntlet with Uru metal from Mjolnir that ended up on Yakuza's hands. Barton/Ronin is there to recover all the pieces of it from their hands.
- The Gauntlet was forged to fit the Hulk. The only two capable of using it is Thor and Hulk due to their neural system.
- Vision will live as an IA for while and he's helping them on the job.
- Thanos will hunt them down through time. As expected, the Time Stone belonging to a younger Doctor Strange was given to Thanos. The dead men's spell comes into action and Thanos remains stuck at the events of the first Avengers buying time for them.
- Thanos knows the consequences of changing the past.
- Doctor Strange is sort of acting like Adam Warlock guiding the Avengers. Yes, the Ancient One is in the movie. They'll visit her for the Time Stone.
- Captain Marvel will only interact with the Avengers in the third act.
- That scene where Rocket opens a door on the trailer it's a CGI shot composed by real footage from Cove Harbour, Scotland. They're looking for the Asgardian survivors, especially Valkyrie.
- Yes, they'll enter Valhalla because they need the Valkyries legion. Yes, Thor will speak to Frigga and Odin.
- Yes, Captain Marvel can time travel using the Kree device with a lot of limitations. The same one Scott Lang brought with him.
- They'll fail on different scenarios, forcing them to jump to other time to try another stone.
- Yes, the creative team decided to tone down Captain Marvel for this movie. So, Thanos extracted a good amount of her powers.
- Thanos will find them in Xander but the line "we should just cut the wire” is real but it was never placed on Xandar. It's on Earth. This is one of the scenes I mentioned earlier that was written originally with Captain Marvel, arriving and punching Thanos. I know they did the same scene with Thor.
- They end up completing the Gauntlet with the Time Stone. All the Avengers fighting Thanos to hold him off while the Hulk brings all of them back, but his arm explodes. Captain America runs to the Gauntlet and Tony tries to help him but he says "no, Tony. Sometimes we can't just cut the wire” and he ends up finishing the job, wielding the Gauntlet while ending up disintegrating as the result of the power.
- Captain America brings back everyone ah the cost of his life and the Gauntlet. This will blow your mind, but it's literally everyone against Thanos exactly like in the comics. It was a huge, huge scene and it took 5 months of planning. There were a few cases here and there of additional scenes with the actors. Everyone that turned into dust was repaired. As far as I know, Gamora is dead for good.
- Thanos is defeated and the Infinity Stones destroyed but with the destruction of the Stones, it ends freeing a cosmic entity that will be the next huge thing for the MCU. At least for now, Thanos is dead.
Ending: - Cap's funeral - Tony retires
Regarding the credits scenes, it's usually the last piece on a movie. There were discussions but I have a guess it's related to Doctor Strange and a very secret scene with chroma in Atlanta. Sounds like the cosmic entity that helped Ant-Man is talking to Doctor Strange. And... if it's decided to go with two, is probably a piece of Spider-Man Far From Home.
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