AVENGERS: ENDGAME Audio Commentary and Q&A Reveals

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>Avengers: Infinity War was going to have a scene of Doctor Strange sending Thanos to the Living Tribunal, who judges him guilty, but it was cut for being too trippy.
>Smart Hulk was supposed to appear in IW, bursting out of the Hulkbuster to fight Cull Obsidian, but that was cut at the last minute because it wasn’t working.
>Hawkeye’s family being dusted was shot for IW but they felt it worked better as the opening of Avengers: Endgame.
>The Avengers asked Captain Marvel to rescue Iron Man and Nebula, and she found them due to a homing beacon on their ship.
>Robert Downey Jr. ad-libbed Iron Man’s rant at Captain America. The script called for him to break down and blame himself as well.
>They wanted to keep old Thanos alive, but knew he needed to die for the plot to progress the way they needed.
>They know the rat setting Ant-Man free was a huge coincidence, but felt they were allowed to have one as long as it happened in the first act.
>There’s a longer version of Ant-Man dealing with the impound guard played by Ken Jeong that got cut for time.
>The Russos’ favorite easter egg is the Hulk eating the “Hunka Hulka Burnin’ Fudge” at the diner.
>Thor was initially going to be the bloodthirsty vigilante, but they felt it was a retread and gave that story to Hawkeye instead. Chris Hemsworth then suggested fat drunk Thor.
>That scene with the Avengers talking about how Back to the Future was bullshit was added in reshoots after test-audiences didn’t understand the movie’s time travel mechanics and kept saying that’s not how it worked in Back to the Future in their forms.
>The Quantum Suits were completely CGI.
>They were reluctant to go back to The Avengers, so in the first drafts of the script, they instead had Cap and Ant-Man retrieve the Mind Stone from the Triskelion in 2014, while Rocket and Scarlet Witch (who would not have been dusted) go on a road trip from Washington to New York to get the Time Stone from the Ancient One.