The Writers of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Tried Killing Hawkeye Over Black Widow
It’s not every day that the #1 movie at the box office is seven years old, but Avengers: Endgame is not your everyday movie. The 2019 Marvel hit is literally one of the highest-grossing movies ever, and its recent re-release is just adding to that total. It’s also bringing the film back into the cultural conversation, and one of its writers just revealed some surprising details on a massive spoiler.
- ▪It’s not every day that the #1 movie at the box office is seven years old, but Avengers: Endgame is not your everyday movie.
- ▪The 2019 Marvel hit is literally one of the highest-grossing movies ever, and its recent re-release is just adding to that total.
- ▪It’s also bringing the film back into the cultural conversation, and one of its writers just revealed some surprising details on a massive spoiler.
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It’s not every day that the #1 movie at the box office is seven years old, but Avengers: Endgame is not your everyday movie. The 2019 Marvel hit is literally one of the highest-grossing movies ever, and its recent re-release is just adding to that total. It’s also bringing the film back into the cultural conversation, and one of its writers just revealed some surprising details on a massive spoiler. Speaking at a recent Q&A, one of the film’s writers, Stephen McFeely (who wrote the script with Christopher Markus), spoke about the choice to kill Black Widow over Hawkeye. It was a huge decision for a lot of reasons and not one they came to lightly. In fact, the writers even tried a version where it was Hawkeye dying instead and got some major pushback.
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