‘Avengers Doomsday’ Was Shot Without a Finished Script

Avengers: Doomsday didn’t have a finished script when it went into production — but one of the movie’s directors doesn’t see that as a bad thing.That would be Joe Russo, who told the Associated Press how he and brother Anthony “always view the script as a living organism” as part of the outlet’s fall movie preview.Russo added:We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors. We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.He better hope so; Marvel bet one of their biggest budgets ever on Doomsday at a time when their box-office track record has been spotty. Their Spider-Man: Brand New Day is one of the company’s biggest hits ever, but several other recent releases, including Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, drastically underperformed expectations. And those were the films, along with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, that were advertised as the key lead-ins to Doomsday.MarvelMarvelREAD MORE: Every Marvel Movie Ever Made, Ranked From Worst to BestNeeding a living organism of a screenplay may have been a necessi...