But when it was all cut together and assembled in a rough cut with pre-vis, those tree stumps that they'd dressed the sets with became a bit more prevalent than they had anticipated and wanted the scene to look like.īecause it sort of read more like they were fighting in the ruins of a bombed out forest rather than the ruins of a bombed out Avengers compound. So the environment would be a combination of destroyed built environment, with certainly dirt, a lot of rubble and building elements, but also some busted trees and tree stumps and burnt out trees. We have the Avengers compound, which is on the banks of the Hudson River in upstate New York with woods around it. So the end battle was largely filmed in a block of additional photography which ran from September to October (of 2018) in Pinewood Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and they were shooting on multiple stages with multiple units running at the same time. "It's interesting, with this one, the environment underwent a big change after the plates for the battle were filmed. Weta Digital's visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken recently sat down to discuss how the battle came to life.
There are way too many A-List stars on the screen at one time, which is only one aspect that makes the scene so breathtaking. The final battle in Endgame features just about every living character from the MCU going up against Thanos and his army, five years after the Decimation.
Now, Marvel Studios is starting to give us a peek behind-the-scenes to see how the final epic battle was constructed, along with some other VFX secrets that helped bring the movie to life on the big screen. The culmination of eleven years of storytelling spread out through 22 installments is unheard of and Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are pretty happy with the way everything worked out.
Avengers: Endgame is the second highest grossing movie of all time with its sights set on becoming number one.