By now, most of us are fully aware of the lengths Marvel would go through to keep a secret. To avoid spoilers from leaking out, directors Joe and Anthony Russo made sure that actors would not be given complete scripts. Multiple versions of pivotal scenes were shot, as well as multiple endings.
Now, visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw has revealed just how far Marvel Studios went in order to keep the film’s full storyline out of the hands of the artists working on the project. With one producer going as far as saying the film was essentially one big CGI scene, it was surely no small task to keep the details of the story a secret from the artists who produced those visuals.
In a Screen Rant exclusive interview with DeLeeuw, the visual effects supervisor explained the complicated process. “For the secrecy component of it, when we would work with the different special effects vendors, basically we’d do it based on sequences. So each vendor would know what happens in their sequences, but not necessarily what would happen in someone else’s sequence,” he said.
With the different vendors handling different sequences, only a select few had access to the full storyline and DeLeeuw was one of those few. He was able to oversee how the various vendors worked in conjunction with one another. “Frame Store, they knew what would happen in the Battle of New York with Spidey and Ruffalo and Iron Man and Maw and Cull Obsidian, but they didn’t really know what happens outside of that because it’s on a need to know basis, I guess. But then a company like Digital Domain, they had done Vormir, so they definitely knew what was happening with Gamora on Vormir, and they then did the bit with Thor at the end,” he explained.
No single vendor had access to the full story, despite having produced scenes with some major reveals. The approach that the studio took certainly matches the secretive approach the directors took in other areas. Marvel Studios clearly wasn’t prepared to take any chances when it came to safeguarding the plot of Infinity War.
Source: ScreenRant
