
And, you know, sleeping very, very little. When we’re making a movie like that, we’re probably shooting 12, 13-hour days, and editing 4 or 5 hours at night. And Anth and I are relentless and exhaustive in our pursuit of telling the best story possible. What’s nice about working with Marvel is that you have very deep resources at your disposal. Or we have a better idea, let’s go execute this better idea. There’s usually a process of trial and error, where you’ll shoot stuff, watch it cut together, didn’t get it, let’s go back. So, you know, when you’re working on a set piece of that scale, with that many characters, it’s usually iterative.

Joe: “There’s a lot of stuff that actually got cut out of that airport sequence. He praised Marvel for the resources that he had to work with, remembering the long days of editing and shooting that he had while he attempted to tell "the best story possible" with this scene: Joe admitted that there was "a lot of stuff" that got left out of this scene, looking back to the "process of trial and error" that he and Anthony used to get the scene to play the right way. Russos Talk Civil War Airport Battle Marvelĭirectors Joe and Anthony Russo spoke with GQ about the airport battle scene from 2016's Captain America: Civil War. And as it turns out, according to the men who made that scene happen, there was a real chance that it could have been even longer than it was.

This all culminated in the famous airport battle from Germany, which included a dozen of the MCU's heroes in battle with each other - both veterans and newcomers alike.įor about 20 minutes, Team Cap and Team Iron Man gave fans some of the MCU's best action to date, showcasing everything from Spider-Man's first interactions with the Avengers to the Black Panther's mission for revenge against Bucky Barnes.

But before those two game-changing team-up efforts, they proved they could do smaller-scale outings with big hero counts as well with their work on 2016's Captain America: Civil War, which started Phase 3 over six years ago.Ĭivil War became the biggest MCU "solo movie" to date upon its release, netting the Russos their first billion-dollar box-office hit as Captain America and Iron Man went toe-to-toe with one another. Joe and Anthony Russo have cemented themselves as two of the most accomplished directors in MCU history thanks to their efforts on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
