The Avengers: Endgame will return to theaters with a taste of the sequel

Seven years after marking the end of a cycle, Avengers: Endgame offers a return to theaters on September 25. A practice that has become quite common in Hollywood, but here with a little extra: unreleased footage directly linked to the upcoming film, Avengers: Doomsday.

An encore that doesn’t come empty-handed – The information was mentioned at CinemaCon and further elaborated by Joe Russo during an exchange at the Sands Film Festival, as reported by Deadline. The director talks about a “bridge” between the two films, as well as bonus content useful for understanding what comes next. In other words, this version of Endgame serves not only to revisit the final showdown with Thanos but also to provide some hints for the future.

The project is quite obvious: capitalize on a film that (almost) everyone has already seen. With over $2.8 billion at the global box office, Endgame remains one of the biggest successes in history, just behind Avatar. Justifying the investment required for a re-release in theaters. Joe Russo himself acknowledges that this is not a trivial operation.

Hard to talk about Endgame without mentioning Robert Downey Jr.. His character, Tony Stark, bid farewell there. However, the actor will indeed be back in the Marvel universe, but not in the expected role as we now know.

In Doomsday, he will portray Dr. Doom, one of the greatest villains in the Marvel universe. A choice that may surprise, but that Joe Russo describes as “very clever.” The idea began to take shape about two years ago, during discussions between the actor, Marvel, and Kevin Feige. The director recounts, “I was having dinner with him in New York, and he told me that he was thinking of making a comeback, with the idea of embodying the ultimate villain. He was the ultimate hero, and now he’s going to become the ultimate villain. I thought it was a very smart idea.”

This comeback was not improvised. The Russo brothers reworked the story structure with screenwriter Stephen McFeely to integrate this shift. The goal was to maintain a certain coherence while opening up a new phase after the complete failure of the Kang arc. The re-release of Endgame now takes on a whole new dimension. It reconnects the audience to these characters while setting a new course. Marvel is playing a fairly classic card here: reminding what worked, while slipping in elements to reignite interest. And picking up the winnings at the box office once again, which doesn’t hurt.