You wouldn't make it one movie

it was damn impressive how they pulled off Civil War and Infinity War

the Russos are damn good at what they do

I assume end game is going to kill off the expensive actors

Everything being wrapped up in one film is a terrible formula for a long running series

RDJ was expensive because he made them all that money in the first place

Even if it was 2-3 movies, I don't think they'd like the cost vs. just telling the story

MCU has the advantage of playing the long game to the extreme

You could split it up into different parts, like how they handle Avengers already

they can take some time but it's not infinite, the actors can only look the part for so long

so more MCU movies?

More MCU movies that serve a larger creative purpose

which they do

Rather than being another origin story or "guardians made money, what can we do with that?"

the movies to date have all been about putting the pieces in place for the 3rd and 4th Avengers movie

for Thanos

Let's be real here. If those movies had failed those characters wouldn't have absolutely 100% been needed in muh Thanos arc. The C list characters exist to see if they can make money off of those too

Disney is not in this to craft storylines. That happens as a byproduct of an investment they have made

Guardians set up Thanos, Gamora and Nebula in the first place who are essential for the Infinity Wars storyline

Disney aren't but Fiege is

he makes them money so they give him enough freedom to continue to do so

most of the MCU is determined by Kevin Fiege with some creative freedom given to the individual movie directors to work within his world

Yeah I don't think anyone is under the illusion Disney/Marvel do these movies for the creative storytelling

They're just comic movies

That will sell heaps

What they want, ultimately, is a steady character rollout so they can keep making money at an increasing rate. I bet you anything that if the "foundation" characters for a given arc were unsuccessful/unpopular, that they would just write them out

They do a lot of unprecedented things in cinema, which I think is pretty cool

I've heard rumors that they have two version of end game. one where captain marvel is important and where she's less important. They'll decide which one to use based on how captain marvel does. I don't really believe this rumor, because the release date seem to close to me to be able to make that decision.

Unless they've already spent the money, they'll just drop things that don't do well if they don't think they can flip you on it

at most Carol will get an assist in the end fight, setting up for either Thor or Nebula to get the kill

Ah, so Thor is getting that headshot you think?

he deserves it, but so does Nebula and in the comic story....

So true

the MCU is pretty good at interpreting the comic events keeping certain key points

I think the characters they want new actors for get the kill, they somehow sacrifice them selves to beat thanos

I am actually genuinely disappointed that they gave Thanos a more cliche reason to villain it up

it's something that's really impressed me with the MCU, the ability to sort of cut out the bloat that happens in comics

have you seen Infinity War?

I'm not seeing the cliche

Nope, I just get to hear about everything that happens

Thanos is an eco-facist