How the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Writers Made Life-and-Death Decisions

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According to screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Tony Stark's fate was sealed more than four years ago

It needs an end or it loses meaning. The end is what cements the thing, to actually sew it together and bring it to a crescendo, and yeah, take people off the board, finish their arcs. If Tony made it out the other side, andBut why does he have to actually die in order for that to happen? You could have given him a conclusion that still had him survive. Others got that.© Marvel Studios/Everett Collection.We realized over the course of the movies that Cap and Tony were on crossing arcs.

Marvel makes them. Yeah. Some intern in-house makes them. They have a magnet on the back. They get dog-eared and bent and stuff. [Each one] says if we have them or not for this movie. And there was a little rating. We didn’t know how much [money] each actor made, but it had either one dollar sign or up to five dollar signs.It was sort of just a guideline.They would allow us to do anything in anybody’s contract.

McFeely: In the beginning stages it’s a, Oh, wouldn’t it be interesting if Groot and Rocket and Thor went on a journey together? What kind of chemistry could you get from that? But also, we took this job because it scared the hell out of us, because that first movie has 23 [main] characters in it.If you know that movie, and you know how we ended it, it was in large part just so the second movie would have fewer characters. And we could work with that! [Laughs] We started with 65 characters.

There was an alternate sequence shot in which Hawkeye is the sacrifice instead. Did you test both on fans?A number of women on the crew, when we said, “Hey, we’re thinking maybe Hawkeye goes over,” said, “Don’t you do that! Don’t rob her of this!” And then it choked me up because I think we would have a much different conversation if Hawkeye had pushed her aside.She jumps on the grenade. I’m really proud of that moment. I don’t have any regrets.

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