Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely discussed how they handled the time travel in Avengers: Endgame during an interview with Fandango.
Avengers: Endgame followed our heroes as they traveled back in time to collects the Infinity Stones so they could use them to reverse Thanos’ decimation. Of course, fans have since raised many questions about the mechanics and logic of our heroes’ journey through time and Stephen McFeely explained they turned to real physicists when developing the script, eventually landing on the idea of alternate timelines being created:
“We brought in a couple of physicists who, to a man, said, “I’m glad you brought me in, because I’ve always wanted to talk to people from Hollywood to say that you know I love Back to the Future as much as the next person, but we don’t think that’s how it would work.” Which was also helpful for us because as you can imagine, every time we went back to one of … you know we have six different time heists in three or four different periods … if every time you went back you created a new Biff’s Casino, for want of a better term, right? Another crack in the version of your timeline? We would never get out of the second act.
So for us the strongest thing we could do, and the most helpful thing we could do, is to operate under some kind of branch reality, so that the things that have already happened … which is what … again, it’s time travel which is humanly impossible, but a number of physicists had told us it’s much more likely we would operate in a branch reality than a singular timeline. So that’s the floor for the time travel conversation.”
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The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured the Avengers ranks compels the remaining Avengers to take one final stand in Marvel Studios’ grand conclusion to twenty-two films, “Avengers: Endgame.”
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Avengers:Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Brolin.
Avengers: Endgame is now playing in theaters!
Source: Fandango
