Anthony Russo

Well, any any last takeaways, Janice? I don't want everything I'm saying about the Lumiere Summit be just about the executives and Trump and all of those things, because there were some amazing creative conversations also that happened.

And I interviewed Anthony Russo, the director of the Lumiere.

Avengers Endgame and the upcoming Avengers Doomsday with his brother as co-directors and his sister Angela, who's the CCO of Agbo, their company.

And it was sort of refreshing to hear him be incredibly honest about what it takes to be successful in the industry, not just now, but way back when he got his start.

That'd be cool.

Something that maybe happened during the final battle that we didn't understand or didn't catch or added because I think we would've caught, like, a hidden thing by now, but who knows? Maybe Joe and Anthony Russo are laughing because they're like, "They didn't notice this." Another really solid reason to go see this movie, aside from all the extra stuff added, is the color grading they did.

It's almost like they did a remaster of the colors in this movie.

You could go watch the trailer.

That's not required viewing.

That is marketing, and if Marvel is using language like required viewing, you're setting an expectation that there's story information here that matters.

And Anthony Russo saying people who saw the original couldn't have seen what's coming to make the promise even bigger.

I mean, if there isn't even a hint of that, I'm gonna be a little bit offended and lose a little bit of trust with the Russo brothers/the MCU.

Because Dan Harmon just talks so freaking much.

And I think he was talking about Joe and Anthony Russo.

And at that point, that I think got Kevin Feige's attention to be like, hey, let's bring him in to potentially direct our next Captain America movie.

And then the rest is history.

In the piece, which I think is sourced off of an AP article, Joe Russo says that they are, quote, improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors, and they, quote, view the script as a living organism.

Anthony Russo says, quote, the thing that Joe and I have always appreciated about our collaboration with Marvel is our job is to answer for the entirety of the MCU.

We intersected in very specific ways.

It's that intersection which is where we can make sense of things.

I'm sorry.

Bad news, Anthony Russo.

Your job right now is literally to make the MCU answer for it entirely.

Like the fact that they think that isn't their job is kind of crazy.

um, would have been based.

Joe and Anthony Russo are got that Avengers connections.

They couldn't spruce up a couple extra dollars.

Come on.

This is what they wrote over there.

Avengers Doomsday going into production without a finished script did not faze directors Joe and Anthony Russo.

As the former recently told the Associated Press, we'll always view the script as a living organism.

We're improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors, Joe maintained.

All right.

Now...

A lot of this is not completely surprising because I mean, when you look at Joe and Anthony Russo's background, I mean, these, this came out of community.

All right.

My name is Imran.

My name's Anthony.

He's the Jock.

He's a nerd.

We'll get to that.

And I don't know if it's me, but the shit looks brighter and crisper and the contrast seems improved.

Anthony, you just watch this.

What do you think? Did it give you geek boner? I like how they added the theatrical experience from 2019 in this little trailer.