With reshoots on Avengers 4 finally underway, actor Mark Ruffalo confirmed that they would indeed be done to finish the movie. Elaborating on these reshoots, which sees the likes of Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner back on set, the Hulk actor has described them as a necessity for a film that’s a “living organism.”
Speaking on The Marvelists: The MCU Podcast with Peter Melnick and Eddie Wilson, Ruffalo commented on the fluid direction of the Russo brothers and how the script is always evolving, which sometimes has him questioning if the directors even know the final destination.
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“I don’t even know that they really know exactly,” Ruffalo said. “Some of it [the story] is happening while we’re there. It’s pretty amazing. And we’ll shoot some stuff and a few days later come back and reshoot it cause we wanna take it in another direction. It’s a very living organism, even as we approach it being a locked picture, we’re still working on it.”
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige mentioned the reshoots earlier this year as the Russos indicated they were some ways off from the final edit. With the movie now nearing completion, there’s still a lot of secrecy regarding the story, which Ruffalo admitted helps keep people like him and Tom Holland, aka Spider-Man, from spoiling things.
“We were getting dummy scripts still,” he joked. “That blew my mind! You have to really go out of your way to give everyone a script that isn’t quite what’s gonna happen, you know? Some of us, I don’t even think knew what we were watching.”
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There’s also the possibility that the directors are shooting various takes on certain scenes that are vital to the film in order to keep the cast surprised, similar to the death scenes for Infinity War. One thing’s for sure, though: Avengers 4 remains one of Marvel Studios’ most anticipated films to date.
Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Avengers 4 stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Brie Larson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Bettany, Anthony Mackie, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillan, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Brolin. The film is set to hit theaters on May 3, 2019.