One Version of ENDGAME Almost Saw Tony Stark Going to Asgard for an Epic Showdown

I imagine that Avengers: Endgame was somewhat daunting to write. It was the culmination of twenty-one movies before it, over a three phase arc. Fans were so devastated by the events in Avengers: Infinity War that we flocked to the theaters to see the resolution. And the writers knew that this was all in their hands, so they had to make sure to everything was perfect. In doing so, there were many rewrites and ideas that came and went. One of them took Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) on a mission all the way to Asgard.

Endgame writer Stephen McFeely recently chatted about the scene to Cinema Blend, and here’s what he had to say:

Well we tried one that just wasn’t that interesting in our first draft, and that’s how we ended up going to The Avengers and Stark Tower and all that. But we had a couple good things. It was basically going to Asgard in a different way because the Space Stone was technically in a vault there, so Tony Stark was wearing a stealth suit. But of course Heimdall could see him, so Heimdall’s fighting an invisible Tony Stark while Thor’s doing something else. And it was just like ‘Why don’t we go to The Avengers?’

Luckily, McFeely and co-writer Christopher Markus had the ability to edit and rethink their game plan for the film, because the final product was fantastic. As cool as it would have been to see Tony Stark on Asgard, it was way better to have the pairs spread out to different locations to divide and conquer, and I loved the scene at Avengers tower in New York.

Would you have liked to have seen Stark on Asgard? I’d definitely love to see it in a deleted scene!