“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.”
“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.”
“The thing that Joe and I have always appreciated about our collaboration with Marvel is: Our job isn’t to answer for the entirety of the MCU,” Anthony Russo told the AP about coming back. “We intersect it in a very specific way. It’s that intersection which is where we can make sense of things.”
Marvel has a grand reputation for starting production on its movies without finished scripts. When “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy director James Gunn took over DC Studios, he vowed not to fall down this rabbit hole and only move into production on DC movies with finalized screenplays.
“I do believe that the reason why the movie industry is dying is not because of people not wanting to see movies,” Gunn told Rolling Stone last year. “It’s not because of home screens getting so good. The number-one reason is because people are making movies without a finished screenplay.”
