‘Avengers: Endgame’ Added Time Travel ‘Baby Thanos’ Explanation Very Late
It's been revealed that Avengers: Endgame added a crucial time travel line in reshoots.
The Marvel film stormed the box office to become the highest-grossing movie of all time earlier this year, although there was talk among some fans that the film's confusing multi-timeline narrative opened the portal for a load of plot holes to infiltrate the MCU.
Most fans, however, were content with the laid-back logic that accompanied the time-travel component–like when the Hulk explained how it wasn't possible for the Avengers to go back in time and "kill baby Thanos" by simply saying "that's not how it works".
And, speaking recently, Avengers: Endgame co-editor Jeff Ford revealed the line was actually added at a very late stage, as a blanket explanation for the film's time travel logic.
"Joe [Russo] had this great idea that Rhodey would pitch, 'Why don't we just go back and kill baby Thanos?'," Jeff told Collider. "That was a reshoot that we did very late.
"The idea was, we can tell audiences that these time travel scenarios they've seen in other movies and on TV, we're doing something slightly different.
"Hulk can say, 'That's not how it works'. We never get to a complete, intense description of how our time travel works, but at least you know the question was asked and Hulk understood it."
Ford also explained that the 'baby Thanos' line helped avoid explanation "overload" while also lessening the complexity of the Endgame time-travel without leaving room for fans to point out plotholes in the storytelling.
It was also recently revealed the film could have had a much bigger role for War Machine (Don Cheadle).
Ahh. If only we could go back in time...
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