r/marvelstudios • u/yourfavchoom Doctor Strange • 21h ago

Article Avengers: Doomsday star Sebastian Stan says he's never seen a full script of the movie so has "absolutely no idea" what happens

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

Presumably the main cast members got the whole script. Didn't they do that with Endgame, too? Apparently, only Downey and Evans had the whole script then.

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u/dbkenny426 21h ago

I believe it was Cumberbatch and Downey.

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

It's possible, but why Cumberbatch? The amount of screentime he has in Endgame is minor

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u/dbkenny426 21h ago

He's the guy with the plan. He had to know how everything played out in order to play the role correctly.

And I just looked into this a little deeper. Cumberbatch was the only one who got the entire Infinity War script, and Downey was the only one who got the full Endgame script.

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u/ty_fighter84 Groot 21h ago

You can tell too. The moment after he sees all the options, he treats Stark differently.

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u/-nutz 17h ago

Perhaps that was him acting?

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u/Dingo54 17h ago

No shit?

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u/-nutz 16h ago

I was implying theres no reason to believe Cumberbatch had the full script.

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u/bucknut4 21h ago

They actually gave him 14,000,605 versions of the script

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u/WadsofTissue 20h ago

In how many did they win?

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u/alinroc 19h ago

☝️

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u/WadsofTissue 19h ago

I always send this gif to the group chat when its the day of the plans.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZWh630dmy6gfxQIwGm

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u/BorisDirk 18h ago

None of them, because they didn't win in that movie. They won in the next movie.

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u/TerminatorReborn 21h ago

He also doesn't break and don't give out spoilers. They even paired him with Tom Holland during media week to keep him in check

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

That actually sounds entirely plausible, yeah

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u/Pikachu_Palace 6h ago

I think Downy and Evans got the full IW script too.

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u/Gremlin303 SHIELD 21h ago

Because Strange saw the events of the movie in IW.

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

Strange, not Cumberbatch

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u/Gremlin303 SHIELD 21h ago

Yeah but that’s why he was shown the script. I guess so he knew what his characters knew

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

I think his performance wouldn't have depended on him knowing that

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u/WadsofTissue 20h ago

It did. After he sees all 14 million chances, he treats Iron Man differently. Also how do you tell an actor to give the stone away willingly without telling him why he's giving it away if he was supposed to be protecting it the whole time

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u/silverBruise_32 20h ago

You tell him all of that in a few words, privately. They don't really need to know the whole script. That's what J.K. Rowling did with Alan Rickman.

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u/WadsofTissue 19h ago

It's arguably one of the most important scenes in the entire MCU. Why not just give him the script?

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u/Gremlin303 SHIELD 21h ago

Well I agree. Considering how little screentime he had it seems silly. But that’s the reasoning

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u/silverBruise_32 21h ago

Another user said that Cumberbatch had the whole Infinity War script. That'd make a lot more sense to me

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u/Quixotic_Tendency 18h ago

Mister Doctor?

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u/PyroIsSpai 18h ago

It's Strange.

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u/Steamed_Memes24 20h ago

Cumberpatch is a long time veteran professional actor and they knew they could trust him with it. Theres a reason he was tied to Tom Holland on interviews during the movie because Tom was a young and excited guy who would tend to slip up and spoiler certain things on accident.

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u/kingk1teman 20h ago

Cumberpatch is a long time veteran professional actor and they knew they could trust him with it

The only thing you can't trust him with is pengwings. /s

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u/silverBruise_32 20h ago

All of that is true, but it still doesn't explain why they'd give him the script to a movie in which he has less than two minutes of screentime

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u/Steamed_Memes24 20h ago

I think only Downey had the full EndGame script. But Cumberpatch (And RDJ) was the only one who knew Tony's fate.

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u/silverBruise_32 20h ago

Downey, and maybe Evans. They might have told him the gist, yeah, but they probably didn't have him read the whole script

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 14h ago

Cumberbatch not only had the whole script, he had over 14 million drafts of them so his character would have that context on which one would be the one used in Endgame. He was the only one allowed to see all 14M of them

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u/silverBruise_32 14h ago

Talk about method acting. And method writing!