It's been 5 years since Avengers: Endgame was released and, believe it or not, 10 years since Captain America: The Winter Soldier first hit the big screen.
The latter was a game-changer for Chris Evans' Steve Rogers, with directors Joe and Anthony Russo - who only had filmmaking experience in the comedy realm at the time - making Cap one of the MCU's biggest badasses.
Talking to Total Film, Anthony addressed The Winter Soldier's 10-year anniversary by saying, "It makes me feel really old! It was honestly a thrill. I mean that whole period was so immersive and thrilling for us. We basically entered the MCU on that movie and exited it seven years later with Endgame."
"That whole ride was like a rollercoaster that more and more people kept joining. We started working with Marvel in 2012 and Endgame released in 2019," he continues. "I mean, when you think about it only being seven years, that’s a lot to pack in - four movies in seven years."
Since Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers have shifted focus to their production label, AGBO. They've produced some great movies, but their directing efforts haven't been quite as successful as their MCU work, with Cherry and The Gray Man drawing mixed reviews.
Next up is another comic book adaptation, though, with The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown. It arrives on Netflix later this year and is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag.
Anthony calls it a "really wonderful book." For those of you who aren't familiar with the property, it follows a runaway teenager and her small toy robot as they travel through a strange American landscape searching for her missing brother, where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system.
"It was written by [Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely, who wrote all of our Marvel films and who are partners in our company [AGBO]," Anthony notes. "So, it's a very exciting movie in the sense that it's a big fantasy adventure in the spirit of fantasy adventure films that we've made in the past in some ways."
"And it's the first time since our Marvel work that the four of us have made a movie in that space. Yeah. So it's exciting for us."
There's no indication that any members of this foursome plan on making a Marvel return, leaving Marvel Studios to find another creative team for its next Avengers movies (Loki scribe Michael Waldron is currently writing the scripts),