Russo Brothers Explain How Helming THE ELECTRIC STATE Has Prepared Them For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY And SECRET WARS

Russo Brothers Explain How Helming THE ELECTRIC STATE Has Prepared Them For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY And SECRET WARS

The Russo Brothers have revealed how their critically panned Netflix movie, The Electric State, has better prepared them for returning to the MCU with Avengers: Doomsdsay and Avengers: Secret Wars...

By JoshWilding - Mar 13, 2025 05:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday
Source: CBR

Joe and Anthony Russo have helmed four MCU movies: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame

They'll reunite with Marvel Studios for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars; however, in recent weeks, the Russos have been doing the rounds to promote Netflix's The Electric State, which currently sits at 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Talking to CBR, the filmmakers explained how that project has better prepared them for their MCU return. 

"Our VFX team was incredible on this," Joe started. "They were painstaking with the work, and they had two years to [work on post-production for] the movie as well, which rarely happens, so all credit to Netflix for understanding the scale of the film, and being willing to be patient with the length of time it was going to take to execute correctly."

"Which we wouldn't have got at a studio where we had a slotted date, and we had to hit the date. A lot of the times, that's why the effects turn out poorly."

Anthony added, "What we were dealing with in those robot designs, we wanted to be very period-faithful in terms of textures, and the way the mechanics worked, and we would sort of decide what decade was each robot built in. Was it the 90s, or the 80s, or the 70s, or 60s, etc., we would get very specific."

Regarding how that ties into their Avengers plans, Anthony pointed to the "refinement of motion capture" as a key tool in their plans for Doomsday (which should begin shooting any day now). 

"There's new methods that are available now to help capture it on set. The tricky thing, when you're working with visual effects, is, if it's a green screen, we have an award-winning camera operator we work with, named Geoff Haley," he explained. "He has nothing to frame to, other than a face."

"But, when you're layering in on sets, rough comps into the eyepiece for him, now he can actually do his job. These are some of the advancements that are really enhancing the quality and look of the effects in movies," Anthony concluded. 

While Doctor Doom won't be a motion capture character (fans will be hoping the Russos don't take the armoured villain down the Iron Man route), characters like The Hulk and She-Hulk are bound to have big roles in these movies. 

Recently, writer Christopher Markus - who worked with the Russos on all the Marvel movies listed above - explained why he decided not to return to the MCU; you can read his comments in full here

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released in May 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive in May 2027. 

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Matchesz
Matchesz - 3/13/2025, 6:04 AM
19% on rotten tomatoes is crazy work, even got a white male lead so thy cant blame raisism
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/13/2025, 6:15 AM
@Matchesz - Go anti-woke, go... to your aunty for money cause you're broke.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/13/2025, 6:16 AM
Go counter-woke, go count... how broke you are.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/13/2025, 6:17 AM
(I got nothing else, I'm out, lol)
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 3/13/2025, 6:23 AM
@Lisa89 -


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vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/13/2025, 6:29 AM
Ok, they are prepared for more mediocre mcu then.

I will say it again. The Russos cant handle a film with no hype to it. All of their mcu films were riding on the cbm hype. I dont think they can be as succesful now given how mediocre the mcu has become.

Feige shouldve said sorry and went back to Whedon
Highflyer
Highflyer - 3/13/2025, 7:08 AM
@vectorsigma - Whedon made a medicocre film with a entertaining third act that relied heavily on the novelty.
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 3/13/2025, 7:21 AM
@vectorsigma - You had me until you said Whedon. Whedon was just the right guy at the right time and once that novelty wore off we got AOU lol.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/13/2025, 9:10 AM
@Typhoon20 - aou was the start of Feige intervening with the creatives they have. Now it is a culture there. Whatever bad aspects of aou there was, it was because of that
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/13/2025, 9:14 AM
@Highflyer - name a badly directed Whedon film?

The russos already have 3 in what, a span of 4 years??
NickScryer
NickScryer - 3/13/2025, 9:34 AM
@vectorsigma - unfortunately I have to agree. Their work post MCU is abysmal.
Secret Wars will probably be a nostalgia fest and may generate some excitement, but other than that my expectations are low.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/13/2025, 10:11 AM
@NickScryer - im already expecting them to ride on Spider-man, Wolverine and DP
Highflyer
Highflyer - 3/23/2025, 5:30 PM
@vectorsigma - Avengers. I'm not defending the Russons btw.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/23/2025, 8:28 PM
@Highflyer - critical response says otherwise.
Highflyer
Highflyer - 4/2/2025, 3:02 PM
@vectorsigma - Critics opinion is as subjective as anyone else's. You've never seen a movie that you think is either bad or average that had good reviews?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/13/2025, 6:45 AM
Interesting to hear about the advancement of visual effects in film such as being able to have a rough idea of what it would look like in camera etc.

I’m sure methods like that will help make the Hulks look better for example.

Anyway , I’m sure many on here are gonna be sarcastic about that headline given the negative critical reception to the Electric State so far but one thing that does seem to be praised is the VFX which is what they are talking about here and hope to bring that same quality to the Avengers films which is good imo.
DarkTanicus
DarkTanicus - 3/13/2025, 7:09 AM
Damn! it's not looking good for Electric State


Independent
Millie Bobby Brown's Netflix epic The Electric State is totally Incoherent

Hollywood Reporter
'The Electric State' Review: Russo Brothers' Dismal Netflix Sci-Fi

Indie wire :
The Electric State review: another lifeless Netflix Mockbuster

ImDB
The Electric State review: A $320mil massively mediocre mechanized mess

Mashable :
The electric State review: Imagine Ready Player One but worse

Vanity Fair
The Electric State short circuits

The Times
The Electric State review: Millie Bobby Brown founders in a turgid eyesore

Paste :
The Electric State is the most banal way you can spend 320mil.
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 3/13/2025, 7:27 AM
I have no doubt their MCU films will do better. Not because they're good directors or anything, on the contrary they're shit, it's just that there's a certain formula to MCU films that even if they're shit it's not outright shit regardless of director.

A few years ago people were craving for Russos to come back and I repeatedly said be careful what you wish for. They benefitted a lot from MCU when they were surrounded by smart people and not business people. Replace Russos with any other director on Endgame and it wouldn't have been worse simply because there's a formula to MCU that I don't think Russos had too much influence besides rolling the camera. Same goes for the writers of that movie. Same writer they praised is the same shitty writer that did Electric State, one of the worst flicks of the year. There's a reason why MCU only hires yes man directors. Directors that aren't going to fight back or ask for complete creative control and when they do they fire em. Even when they hire talented award worthy directors they look for ones that they can mold into their own will.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/13/2025, 10:03 AM
@Typhoon20 -

Do you also hate everything on Earth including your own children?
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/13/2025, 10:05 AM

How does spending a fortune to make a disaster bomb get you ready for anything?
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 3/13/2025, 10:32 AM
@DocSpock - good question.
Wonderland56
Wonderland56 - 3/13/2025, 10:41 AM
What a stupid article with zero stimulating thoughts or opinions
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 3/13/2025, 10:44 AM
Millie Bobby Brown as Storm confirmed.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/13/2025, 12:59 PM
It's preparing them for shit reviews.
1stDalek
1stDalek - 3/13/2025, 4:03 PM
There's always something to learn from your endeavors, things you figure out and grow while doing it & stuff you can only notice after your watching the finished product, even if they fail looking back & understanding what went wrong can be enlightening.

Dr Doom is def going to be a wholly motion captured CGI creation, unless RDJ is only doing the voice & they put the armor on a stunt actor, 60YO RDJ isn't going to perform in a 20lb costume. lol

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