Avengers: Endgame, the highest grossing movie of all time, is still making headlines, eight months after its release. Between the home release and the Disney+ streaming service, more and more news and insight on the film is pouring onto the internet. With that, many of the people who worked behind the scenes finally are able to come forward and talk about their experience working on the movie as well as some insider info on what almost made the final cut. Case in point: The ‘A-Force’ scene was almost very, very different.
In the book, The Art of marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Jackson Sze, the Senior Visual Development Artist, described how the scene was originally supposed to go.
“Captain Marvel, being intergalactically powerful, would help take care of Thanos’ ship, which at this point is just shooting blasts down onto the battlefield and making things really difficult for everyone, and she gets shot down on the ground. Pepper Potts, in her Rescue suit, sees that, rushes to her, and tries to protect her from another blast from the ship. So she raises her shield-protection powers and, as she’s getting bombarded, calls to all the female Avengers to come help, and they all jump in around Captain Marvel in a circle… and they’re all trying to fight off the Outriders and protect her. Eventually, she comes to, realizes what’s happening, thanks everyone, and then powers up full Binary. Pepper just goes, ‘Do your thing, Captain.’ And then she zooms into space and shoots through all the fighters and goes in and wrecks the big ship just like she does in the movie, taking the whole thing down.”
This scene feels like it might have made a little more sense, as it better explains why the female heroes came together in the moment, rather than the seemingly random feel of what was in the movie. The scene we got does feel a little forced, in that there is no real reason to explain why the women came together in that moment in the first place. Regardless, it is still a great scene to see and the lack of explanation doesn’t hurt the flick’s flow or story at all.
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