Avengers: Endgame Secrets Revealed

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo divulge the decisions behind the unforgettable moments in Avengers: Endgame, one of the biggest box office hits ever.

- Anthony Breznicana

THE INFINITY GAUNTLET HAS finally granted the Russo brothers the power to speak.

After turning box office records to ash with the first worldwide billion-dollar opening weekend in history ($1.22 billion, to be exact) and a second weekend that pushed Avengers: Endgame over the $2 billion mark globally, directors Joe and Anthony Russo are feeling liberated from the secrecy restrictions they’ve been living under for the past several years.

“Oh my God, it’s such a relief now,” Anthony tells EW in an interview at the Russos’ downtown Los Angeles office two days after the premiere. “Infinity War was different because nobody really started to chase us for information until about a month before the movie came out,” Joe adds. But because of the Snap cliffhanger at the end of that movie, “it’s been a year of being chased for information.”

As Iron Man says in the Endgametrailer, “Part of the journey is the end”; whether it left you cheering or in tears, the final product definitely fulfilled that promise.

Post-screening debate and dissection are certainly part of this journey. The brothers from Cleveland, who built their reputations while directing TV comedies like Arrested Development and Community, have learned the importance of the fans’ input following the release of their Captain America films The Winter Soldier (2014) and Civil War (2016), as well as these two back-to-back Avengers movies.

Now the filmmakers are ready to join the discussion.