The Guys Behind Avengers: Endgame Know Its Use Of Time Travel Is 'Ludicrous'

Before Avengers: Endgame debuted, fans were positively buzzing about theories on how Thanos might finally be defeated. What turn of events could possibly "undo" all of the unforeseen deaths of the last movie, or at least distribute something of a satisfying ending?


As soon as the Russo Brothers and writer Stephen McFeely arrived at their response, it was much more unconventional than we might have imagined: time travel.


On the commentary track for Avengers: Endgame, director Joe Russo and writer Stephen McFeely broached the subject of time travel itself and also what it intended for the heroes who enacted the plan in the initial place, acknowledging it as a "ludicrous" notion.


"Ultimately we realized that, look, time travel doesn't exist, so it's a ludicrous notion," mentioned Joe Russo of the idea. "It's a construct of genre filmmaking so you know, I think whenever we all purchased in on it was once we realized the emotional scenes that could take place between the characters and people that they loved who are no longer with them." And honestly, it's a good thing that they did. Writer Stephen McFeely weighed in on the concept as well, noting that going this route would ultimately just be allowing the team to fix people as well.


"It's those scenes, we'll get to them, are gonna do several things," he mentioned. "They're gonna collect stones, however they're gonna maintenance people." By going forward with their time travel-centric narrative (which we won't spoil the events that follow here), this does just be coming true, with a couple of characters seeing otherwise positive outcomes as a result of the decision.


"So, ultimately, if you're entertained by them coming up with the plan, executing the plan, and then you're emotionally fulfilled by what they do while they're executing the plan, it's worth the construct," mentioned Russo of using time travel in the end. The ends justified the means here, because the personnel involved in bringing Endgame to fruition really started to purchase into it any time everything came full circle.


With that in mind, we should all take a moment and think about how we might have been looking at a much different movie, and then some of these harrowing deaths from Avengers: Infinity War could have been far more permanent. Thanks for going out on a limb with time travel right considering that, guys!