'Avengers: Endgame' Director Refuses to Talk Future Captain America Storylines
By Ryan Carroll
Avengers: Endgame offered a powerful conclusion to the stories of many of the Marvel Universe’s iconic characters. In particular, Captain America (Chris Evans) received a touching and seemingly conclusive ending, travelling back in time to live his life with his past lover Peggy Carter before handing off his shield to Sam Wilson. However, the co-director of Endgame has refused to speak on the future of the character, sparking speculation there's more to come.
According to ComicBook.com, co-director Anthony Russo conducted an interview with MTV at the MTV Movie and TV Awards (where the film won the award for Best Movie). At one point, the interviewer asked whether or not Russo could expand on a comment from his brother Joe, who had mentioned “another [Captain America] story that at some point you might want to tell.”
Russo, however, quickly responded “I cannot.” Subsequently, he went on to speak on the satisfaction he felt from Endgame.
“When we were making this movie, one of the great things about this particular movie of the four we’ve made for Marvel was [with] Endgame we were never thinking about the future,” he said. “Our job in this movie was to bring this story, this 11-year journey, to the most satisfying climax we possibly could.”
Previously, the Russos have spoken on their desire to have a rounded ending for the original Avengers characters, particularly Iron Man and Captain America. “Had we killed both the leads,” Joe Russo remarked in an interview with Empire Podcast, “I feel like people would have been walking out into traffic after the film. The intention is not to destroy people, it's to hopefully tell a complex and dimensionalized story in a way that makes them feel a varied range of emotion.”
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As for us, we’re interested to see whether Captain America will make future appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or not--while we love the character to death, we also felt so satisfied with the conclusion of Endgame that we don’t even know where else there is to go.