Russos Explain Filming Doomsday Without Script — SkimNews
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- Joe Russo told AP that the brothers are 'improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors' who 'like to see what the actors bring to the characters,' often not meeting cast until days or weeks before shooting.
- Anthony Russo pushed back on the idea of 'restoring order' to the MCU, saying their job 'isn't to answer for the entirety of the MCU' but to make sense of their specific intersection with it.
- Avengers: Doomsday is set for December 18 release as part of MCU Phase 6, following 2019's Avengers: Endgame, which the Russos also directed.
- Doomsday will assemble heroes from multiple universes: the Avengers, Wakandans from Black Panther, the Thunderbolts/New Avengers from Earth-616, the Fantastic Four from Earth-828, and the original X-Men.
- The Russos' comments come amid superhero-fatigue speculation, which the article notes Spider-Man: Brand New Day has countered by drawing large audiences.
Why it matters: The Russos are staking Phase 6's flagship film — and the MCU's credibility after several misfires — on a rehearsal-driven process that doesn't lock lines before cameras roll, a method that earned them Endgame's $2.798B but also raised eyebrows before. With Doomsday tasked with uniting at least five distinct hero groups (Avengers, Wakandans, Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, X-Men), the script-as-living-organism approach puts enormous weight on the actors' improvisational instincts during a film that needs to feel like a clean reset.
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