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Fake scripts and celebrity cameos: 22 facts about $1bn Avengers: Endgame
Chris Evans originally turned down the role of Captain America.
12 Different countries can see different films. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve Rogers keeps a list of things he needs to catch up with. American audiences saw him citing Nirvana and Star Wars, while for Russian audiences, he needed a refresher on the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And for us Brits? Sean Connery and the 1966 World Cup.
13 The music has made an impact, too. The soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy became the second soundtrack to sell more than a million copies – the other being Frozen.
14 Marvel has its own in-universe media. Marvel intermittently uploads videos to YouTube from fictional news show WHIH Newsfront, set in the MCU. They star the reporter in the first Iron Man film – Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart.
15 Robert Downey Jnr thanked the entire cast and crew by buying them personalised chairs with the name and logo stitched into the fabric as well as an engraved plate saying, "Heartfelt thanx from the bottom of my arc reactor".
16 Scarlett Johansson is finally being paid the same as her co-stars, earning $15million (£12million) for the upcoming Black Widow movie – the same as Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth got for their Captain America: Civil War and Thor: Ragnarok films. The two heroes also got $15million each for Infinity War and Endgame. Johansson has appeared in six movies, including the first Avengers, but she got a “low seven-figure salary” compared to Robert Downey Jnr’s
$50million.
17 It’s trailer became the first in YouTube history to reach over a million likes in less than four hours – and an incredible 289 million views in the first 24 hours.
18 The Russo brothers directed the film with the use of IMAX/Arri 2D cameras. It’s the first time a Hollywood film was entirely shot with IMAX digital cameras.
19 Endgame will be the first film ever to HERO Brie Larson include both the Hulk and Ant-Man. Rumours have it that Endgame will turn Ant-Man into one of its most significant superheroes.
20 Get your hankies ready, Chris Evans and the rest of the cast have repeatedly warned fans Endgame is a tear-jerker, as Evans admitted he cried six times watching it.
21 Endgame isn’t actually the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There have been 22 films over 11 years so far and this is believed to be the end of the story for the main heroes.
22 Other films are in the pipeline however, with Spider-Man: Far From Home later this year and Black Widow’s standalone movie. The Eternals has also been confirmed with Angelina Jolie rumoured to star in it.