{"id":3169,"date":"2018-03-18T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/03\/18\/marvels-post-credits-scenes-almost-never-happened-says-jon-favreau-that-was-a-bit-of-a-lark\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T18:56:12","slug":"marvels-post-credits-scenes-almost-never-happened-says-jon-favreau-that-was-a-bit-of-a-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/03\/18\/marvels-post-credits-scenes-almost-never-happened-says-jon-favreau-that-was-a-bit-of-a-lark\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Post-Credits Scenes Almost Never Happened, Says Jon Favreau: \u2018That Was a Bit of a Lark\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t always tradition for comic-book movies to feature post-credits scenes. &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; kicked off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\">Marvel<\/a> Cinematic Universe in general and that trope in particular, but according to director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jon-favreau\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jon-favreau\">Jon Favreau<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t always part of the plan \u2014 in fact, it was actually &#8220;a bit of a lark&#8221; that it happened at all.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/03\/avengers-infinity-war-hawkeye-jeremy-renner-1201940864\/\" title=\"Hawkeye Is Nowhere to Be Found in the \u2018Avengers: Infinity War\u2019 Trailer, Leading Fans to Demand Justice for Jeremy Renner\">Hawkeye Is Nowhere to Be Found in the \u2018Avengers: Infinity War\u2019 Trailer, Leading Fans to Demand Justice for Jeremy Renner<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to include Easter eggs that the fans would appreciate and we thought the idea of a post-credit scene it could be fun. It was something that wasn\u2019t really in the script originally,&#8221; he tells <a href=\"http:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2018\/03\/16\/iron-man-post-credits-scene-jon-favreau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. &#8220;But I thought the idea of Nick Fury being Sam Jackson would be really fun, because when Nick Fury was reimagined in &#8216;The Ultimates&#8217; (comic book) they recast him as Sam Jackson, and I thought that that would be a really good nod to the audience. And Kevin [Feige, Marvel Studios executive] was way into it, too. Kevin really lit up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We worked on that dialog together. We were very careful how we selected the words. \u2018You\u2019re part of a bigger world now, a bigger universe,\u2019 and \u2018the Avengers Initiative,\u2019 laid breadcrumbs for what was to come,&#8221; Favreau continues. &#8220;We had the idea that we would somehow group these characters together, that was part of what would happen, but a lot of things had to go right for that to happen, so we were really just laying out a basic mission statement of purpose, to show our intent, and thinking that the few people who would linger in the theater would be the ones who would appreciate it most.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/03\/avengers-infinity-war-marathon-marvel-mcu-event-1201940306\/\" title=\"\u2018Avengers: Infinity War\u2019 Marathon: Marvel\u2019s 31-Hour Theatrical Event Only Includes 12 MCU Movies\">\u2018Avengers: Infinity War\u2019 Marathon: Marvel\u2019s 31-Hour Theatrical Event Only Includes 12 MCU Movies<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the post-credits scene in question, which introduced the entire concept of the Avengers to moviegoers:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t always tradition for comic-book movies to feature post-credits scenes. &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-P7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}