Avengers: Endgame remains Marvel Studios’ crowning achievement, and the movie’s shadow has loomed large over the entire Multiverse Saga. Topping, or even matching, the heights of the 2019 blockbuster has proven near-impossible for the MCU.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Time will tell whether Avengers: Doomsday can accomplish what other recent titles couldn’t. In the meantime, Hawkeye star Jeremy Renner has opened up on filming Black Widow’s emotional death scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Avengers: Endgame, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff head to\u00a0Vormir to retrieve the Soul Stone. However, the only way to get the ancient cosmic artefact necessary to defeat Thanos is for one of them to make the ultimate sacrifice; a soul for a soul.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Talking at the recent\u00a0Space Con 2025 event, Renner reflected on shooting a completely different version of the sequence that saw the duo forced to fend off an attack from the 2014 Thanos Variant.<\/p>\n
“We shot the scene, but that scene is not in the movie,” he told fans. “It\u2019s a very different scene. There\u2019s much more galactic and more aliens and there\u2019s a lot more stuff going on. And then we reshot it to make it much simpler to the scene that\u2019s in the movie now.”<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s much more emotional, much more impactful, I think. It\u2019s more heartbreaking. It\u2019s heartbreaking to do that scene,” the actor said of the version seen in the final cut.\u00a0“It was a celebration also. It\u2019s like saying goodbye to somebody. There was 22 films before this that made this scene happen.”<\/p>\n
“I think it\u2019s one of Scarlett\u2019s last scenes anyway. It was a pretty emotional time, a lot of years had gone by, and shared stories, and life shared. It was real enough for us to feel it,” Renner concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alternate version he’s talking about can be found on Disney+ among the other deleted scenes. Still, it’s interesting to hear Renner’s take on that and why it was beneficial\u00a0to reshoot such a huge moment. Co-writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have also discussed the change, describing the final version as “much better than what we had.”<\/p>\n
McFeely continued, “It was a little more complicated. It was Thanos sending a small army to pretend to try and stop them. It was sort of awkward. It was overthinking.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“While it lit a fire under them to do the act, it also took a little bit of the agency away, and we lost the characters,”\u00a0Markus pointed out.<\/p>\n
Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will likely undergo similarly extensive reshoots, and Marvel Studios has given the Russo Brothers plenty of time to make sure both movies are as good as possible. Whether they can come close to Avengers: Endgame remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back to Renner, and he later recalled Avengers: Endgame’s emotional opening\u2014where Clint’s family literally vanishes before his eyes during the Blip\u2014being a scene he’d originally shot for the previous movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That scene was supposed to be at the end of Infinity War,” he shared. “It was supposed to be at the end of Infinity War, and then it goes into Ronin land. But then it didn\u2019t work. So, let\u2019s just bookend this whole thing. A lot of things happen in Endgame, guys. A lot of things. So, Ronin comes into play because of what happens to his family, and the blip and all that stuff.”<\/p>\n
Avengers: Endgame is now streaming on Disney+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame remains Marvel Studios’ crowning achievement, and the movie’s shadow has loomed large over the entire Multiverse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[40617,88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-285584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-endgame","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}