We also look into the comics themselves for ideas. It's the kind of storytelling that, hopefully, you can keep revisiting because there are a lot of dimensions to discover on multiple viewings. It's a way to develop very layered, thick storytelling.
We like the idea of telling stories from multiple characters' points of view and thinking about the story from multiple characters' points of view. Joe and I have always been drawn to ensemble storytelling. While the Captain America movies we did were ensemble films, and Civil War had a lot of characters in it, they both fail in comparison to these two.
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What's the biggest difference between directing a Captain America movie and a full-blown Avengers movie?Īnthony: On one level, it's the scope of the ensemble. So we're really digging into VR and trying to figure out how you tell stories in that format, what those kinds of stories can be and what the future of the technology looks like. The more immersive the experience, the more hooked they are, and that's what they're looking for. What excites them is very different from what excited me. I see the way they consume media now is very different from the way I did. I think that's really the future of storytelling. I've had emotional experiences in VR that I haven't been able to have in two-dimensional experiences. Moving forward, storytelling and narrative needs to expand and it needs to be pulled in different ways.
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I think part of the reason why TV is in such a golden age is that, collectively, we've perfected storytelling in a half-hour format. Joe: We're really obsessed with virtual reality right now. Joe Russo (left) and Anthony Russo say they're always on the hunt for new ways technology can push storytelling.Īs filmmakers, what technology interests you? The following is an edited transcript of our conversation. I went to Pinewood Atlanta Studios to talk to Joe and Anthony about what it's like to helm a full-fledged Avengers movie, explore virtual reality storytelling and get inspiration from '90s heist films. Infinity War will tie together elements from the entire MCU, including Thor: Ragnorak, and Black Panther - a blockbuster so huge it prompted Marvel to move up the new movie from its original May 4 release date to April 27. Now the Russo brothers are about to release what fans expect to be a culminating event that will change the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it and make way for - what else - more Marvel movies.