Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of Avengers: Endgame, explain why Iron Man got an on-screen funeral but Black Widow didn’t.
There were plenty of casualties in Avengers: Endgame but two of the biggest were certainly Iron Man and Black Widow. However, why did only Iron Man get an on-screen funeral?
Well, according to co-director Joe Russo in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the reason is very simple: ”
“Well, Natasha has another movie coming out. Tony does not have another movie coming out.
“When you’re dealing with storytelling real estate in a three-hour movie, there’s only so much of it, and someone else has another film coming, there’s always the opportunity to bring closure in that other movie. In this movie, we had to bring closure to Tony Stark.”
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Well, that settles that. It will be interesting to see just what the Black Widow prequel movie will have in store for Natasha when it arrives in cinemas in 2020.
Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts), Evangeline Lilly (The Wasp), Letitia Wright (Shuri) and Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie).
