Marvel has spent the last several years assuring audiences that the MCU would stop feeling like homework. But now, in something of an about-face to those pledges, Marvel Studios is apparently assigning a three-hour movie as required reading. Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors behind “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” say “Avengers Endgame: Encore” is essential preparation for December’s “Avengers: Doomsday”—only two months after promising their new Avengers movie would start the franchise “from scratch.”
The contradiction is especially stark because it comes directly from the Russos.
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