#casamancy

Anthony Russo: (1:16) “Marvel has an excellent process of balancing how connected these movies are to the other movies in the cinematic universe, and how independent they are. You don’t want to be saddled with too many things that are happening outside the perimeters of your film, it can be cramping. so they try to give you maximum freedom without putting anything more on you than you need to know. We read the stuff, we read the drafts, we watch the edits, everybody is up on the most current development of everything. But at the same time, there’s only a few key moments where they have to really sort of be faithful to one another. There’s a lot of room to play. It’s a balance, but it’s a balance that’s y’know again -- the error is always on How can each movie have maximum freedom to become what it wants to be? As opposed to How does it stay connected to the rest of them?” ((basically I’m sure they’ll figure out how to pick and choose stuff from AoU, making their movies connected but still making Civil War, as well as the Infinity War, amazing and exciting stories.))

Anthony Russo: (3:13) “We always said, look, especially what we were trying to say with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and why we lean so heavily on the political thriller genre is that we wanted there to be real world stakes to what was happening to the drama. And we tried very hard to make that -- we thought through every situation and tried to give it a contextualization that was plausible in our world, even though there are elements of fantasy in the film. We tried to ground it really hard, because.. if you’re not afraid of something bad happening, it’s like you’re losing the tension in the movie, so you have to be very committed to all possibilities including death for characters. As far as that death in the movie, it was never conceived as an actual death... it was always a narrow survival. But as storyteller we had to commit to it, we said ‘look, there is a very popular character in the marvel universe, who we’re saying.. at least for a moment in this movie, is leaving the marvel universe for good’ and we really committed to that idea of like WOW, how do we send off a character of this stature out of the film... and we spent a lot of time, in the scenes running up to that kind of building to that moment. Making it seem like fate was really coming for this character. And I think that made the twist more satisfying.” ((Anthony proving to put more thought into a character death scenario, even a faux-death one like Fury’s, than Joss did Quicksilvers entire death scene))

Joe Russo: (6:05) “We’re on a good place on [Captain America 3]. We got a draft from the writers, it’s fantastic. We’re really excited about it. And everyone is really hard at work, trying to put together a really, really good project for everyone.“ Anthony Russo: (6:22) “Yeah but the process on both [Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War], we’re never finished, we’re always in a constant state of refining, questioning, experimenting.. trying things, so it’s, y’know we’re kind of in the middle of that right now.”

Anthony Russo: (6:36) “No because I think even though Chris has said [that he is done with MCU], he’s always said... at least as far as I’m aware, that he’s, y’know, that he will always do marvel movies. So there was never an issue, in terms of his future in the Marvel franchise. He’s there, and he’s really committed to the character. ((I’m sure most people are aware Chris had said he intends to carry the Captain America mantle as long as fans will have him))