Avengers: Endgame Replicating Empire Strikes Back Experience

Avengers: Endgame Replicating Empire Strikes Back Experience

As I have stated numerous times, I tip my hat to the Russo brothers as there hasn’t been a whole lot of marketing surrounding The Avengers: Endgame, which means the flick will pay off even more when it finally gets released. Regarding the marketing, the Russo brothers comment on the lack thereof and compare it to when they watched Empire Strikes Back, and they even say they considered no marketing.

“We did,” Joe Russo tells Empire Magazine. “We talked about all scales of marketing. The thing that’s most important to us is that we preserve the surprise of the narrative. When I was a kid and saw The Empire Strikes Back at 11 am on the day it opened, and sat there until 1-pm watching it back to back to back, it so profoundly moved me because I didn’t know a damn thing about the story I was going to watch. We’re trying to replicate that experience.”

As the article notes, the Russos took the same approach with The Avengers: Infinity War, which was a huge success, so they will have to “follow up their greatest trick with an even greater trick.”

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame - Official Trailer
Avengers Endgame

About Matt McGloin

Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.

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