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The Russos almost stop Marvel over the Captain America: Civil War ending

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The Russo brothers almost quit Wonder over the ending to Captain America: Civil War.

While the Russos were set on the finale that saw Cap and Iron Man battle it out, the Marvel Ingenious Committee wanted the Avengers to reunify and yield to fight the v Super Soldiers unconcealed at the Geographic region base together. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige sided with the Russos, and the debate went every last the way to Disney's Disney's Gaffer Constructive Officer Alan Hooter, who also agreed with the filmmakers.

"We reached a breaker point where we said, out loud in a room, 'We're not curious in continuing as directors of this movie if it is exit to be about managing politics and a third act," Joe Russo is quoted as saying in the recently released book The Story of Wonder Studios: The Making of the Marvel Medium Cosmos, by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry. (H/T ComicBook.com)

"And I think Kevin was very energized by that," Anthony Russo added. "And also, maybe it gave him about leverage in the situation, because we were and so clear more or less our point of see."

The Russos went on to direct Avengers: Eternity War and Avengers: Endgame, with the last mentioned briefly holding the crown for the highest-grossing movie of all time (until it was dethroned by a theatrical re-release of James Cameron's Avatar).

The directing duo may or may non outspoken another film for Wonder, with their return reportedly jeopardized by Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney, which has was at length settled.

The succeeding Marvel movie to arrive is Eternals, which lands this November 5. In the meantime, retard out our complete guide to Marvel Phase 4 for everything other the MCU has future for us.

I'm a freelance Entertainment Author here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for our Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team up at Immediate Media, and also wrote happening the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Coltsfoot titles after getting my BA in English.