Warning: full spoilers for Avengers: Endgame ahead!
With Avengers: Endgame bringing the epic Infinity Saga to a conclusion, IGN invited the one and only Jim Starlin to share his thoughts on what happened. Starlin not only created Thanos, Gamora and Drax but he was the writer of the Infinity Gauntlet comic that inspired the overarching story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, so we were intrigued to hear his reaction to how it all went down after he watched it at the world premiere.
You can watch the full interview by checking out the video above.
“I was amazed … I was just flabbergasted, just the spectacle and the emotional ride. The up and downs that you have on it. There’s some really heartbreaking moments mixed in with a lot of really funny little instances here and there,” Starlin enthused.
In the Infinity Gauntlet comic the snap is undone relatively quickly when Nebula simply uses the Gauntlet to turn things back the way they were 24 hours prior, but for the MCU it became the jaw-dropping cliffhanger of Infinity War and then in Endgame the heroes wallowed for five years before finding one last, desperate way to undo the travesty. That called for them to go on an action-packed quest through time where not everyone made it back alive. We asked Starlin how he felt about the filmmakers expanding on the moment of the snap and making such a big meal out of the adventure to save the Vanished.
“Well the movie didn’t have a number of the characters who we had in the book. Like [Adam] Warlock, Silver Surfer, and all that, so they had to depart from where I was going at the book. I thought at one point that Nebula might get ahold of the Gauntlet, ’cause that was in the book, but everybody else did at one point or another,” Starlin said. “I thought it was very satisfying. I’ve done a lot of time traveling stories myself in my time, and I think their humor that they handled it with and their explanation on things worked really well.”
That’s all from Starlin, but be sure to check out our video explaining the end of the movie:
And be sure to read IGN’s Avengers: Endgame review.
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