Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo have discussed how they use footage that doesn't make it into the final cut of their films in their trailers as to "preserve the surprise of the narrative."

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Via ComingSoon.net, the Russo brothers were recently interviewed by Empire Magazine and talked about how important it was to them that they "keep the film's marketing department from spoiling the surprises."“We talked about all scales of marketing,” said Joe Russo. “The thing that’s most important to us is that we preserve the surprise of the narrative. When I was a kid and saw The Empire Strikes Back at 11am on the day it opened…It so profoundly moved me because I didn’t know a damn thing about the story I was going to watch. We’re trying to replicate that experience.”Joe previously spoke about this issue as well and explained how Anthony and he “use all the material that we have at our disposal to create a trailer. We look at the trailer as a very different experience than the movie, and I think audiences are so predictive now that you have to be very smart about how you craft a trailer because an audience can watch a trailer and basically tell you what’s gonna happen in the film.” An example for this was in Avengers: Infinity War when a shot of one of its trailers showed the Hulk running with other Avengers. This scene was not featured in the final cut of the film, but helped set the tone for what was to come.“We consume too much content,” added Russo. “So at our disposal are lots of different shots that aren’t in the movie that we can manipulate through CG to tell a story that we want to tell specifically for the purpose of the trailer and not for the film.”There are already signs that Avengers: Endgame's trailers are taking the same approach, as the Super Bowl spot appears to have edited out a character in one scene and many fans are questioning the shot in the latest trailer of the Avengers in their new suits alongside Tony Stark who, as far as we know, is not on Earth. All will be revealed when Avengers: Endgame is released in theaters on April 26, 2019.

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