We’re in the homestretch before the much-hyped release of Avengers: Endgame next month and it’s probably an understatement to say that fans everywhere are poring over every single detail in all the released footage in an attempt to glean some info on what’s going to happen in the movie.
It’s all very admirable and the life source of many YouTube channels. It is also all a completely pointless exercise because the directors of Endgame have just implied that they’ve been messing around with all the trailers, and by extension our feelings.
What did you just say?
In a new interview with Empire (via ComingSoon.Net), Joe and Anthony Russo said their main focus and intention in the lead up to Endgame‘s release is to “preserve the surprise of the narrative“.
“The thing that’s most important to us is that we preserve the surprise of the narrative. When I was a kid and saw The Empire Strikes Back at 11am on the day it open […] It so profoundly moved me because I didn’t know a damn thing about the story I was going to watch. We’re trying to replicate that experience.”
Reading between the lines, the Russos basically admitted that they predicted fans will obsessively analyse every single frame of released content and have taken steps to prevent story details from getting out by making trailers out of footage that won’t be in the final film.
While no one has any clue what’s fake and what’s real in the released Endgame footage, fans have already started speculating that the scene in which Tony Stark is reunited with the rest of the Avengers is a fake.
I feel like Tony scene with rest of the avengers is fake to through people off guard. Also #Thor x #CaptainMarvel… #AvengersEndgame
— Sifat Alam (@sifat6626) March 14, 2019
imagine if the fake scene in the trailer is tony reunited with the rest of the avengers pic.twitter.com/H6iHGZUEGs
— ✪ rach says bucky deserved better (@ragnarach) March 14, 2019
It’s far from the first time the Russos have done this in an attempt to keep spoilers from leaking out.
If you recall that awesome final scene from the Infinity War trailer, the one where Captain America and his buddies run into battle with Hulk in tow, it never actually happened in the final cut and things ended up playing out much differently.
This is all a bunch of lies…
So almost everything related to Endgame you’ve been fed up to now is almost certainly a lie and the many thousands of trailer breakdown videos on YouTube are officially pointless.
For all we know, Captain Marvel may not even be in the film and the Avengers beat Thanos by shoving Ant-Man up the Mad Titan’s butt.
I did say don’t bother watching the Endgame trailers anymore but you might as well do it anyway in an attempt to figure out which scenes are fake before the film comes out in April.
