Hawkeye’s End Credits Scene Confused the Director, Too

Did you sit via the finish credit of the Hawkeye finale to see what was subsequent for our heroes, solely to be a bit of shocked by what was proven? You aren’t the one one. The episode’s director felt the identical approach.

End credit scenes have turn into an important a part of the Marvel Studios DNA. With each movie, followers sit via the credit anticipating to see a tease of what’s to come back for the way forward for the franchise. It’s a practice that’s even continued into Marvel’s live-action Disney+ exhibits, with WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki all saving a bit of one thing further for his or her respective finales. So everybody anticipated the identical for Hawkeye and, properly, what we bought was fairly untraditional.

The finish credit of Hawkeye are interrupted by Marvel Studios wishing its followers “Happy Holidays,” adopted by your complete manufacturing of “Save the City” from Rogers the Musical, which is glimpsed in components through the present’s first episode. Here although we get the total tune from starting to finish—and the choice to make it the tip credit scene left the episode’s director, Rhys Thomas, a bit befuddled.

“I was not aware,” Thomas told Collider when requested in regards to the scene. “It wasn’t planned that that was going to be the way that the show was going to close. I was actually a little in the dark too. I was curious, like, ‘Is this slot going to be reserved for teeing something else up, in the tradition that Marvel’s known for?’ I was waiting for what that was going to be. Yeah, they made the decision to put the musical at the end there, which honestly, I was slightly conflicted about because like a fan, I’m like, ‘The people, they want to see something, they want to know what’s coming next. Is this going to disappoint?’”

So Thomas, like followers, was anticipating one thing a bit extra narrative-driven, however he defined why that wasn’t the case.

“In all fairness again, to the team, it’s like, ‘No, no, no, it’s Christmas, it’s light. We’ve got so much blood in this episode, it’s just fun. It’s a fun release at the end, and it’s a nice way to send people off,’” he stated. “That’s how that came about and in terms of what it was, that was part of… Obviously, when we shot it for episode one, we shot the entire thing, but obviously in episode one, the focus was Jeremy [Renner] and less of the performance. It was [an] evolution of that.”

It’s necessary to notice that Marvel credit scenes aren’t all the time large gorgeous reveals. One of my private favorites is the ultimate one in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is simply Captain America teasing you for sitting via the credit. So there’s definitely precedent for one thing enjoyable and cheeky, however with so many questions nonetheless unanswered about Kingpin, Clint, Kate, and the remainder, it was a barely stunning, however not unwelcome, resolution.

Head over to Collider to learn extra from Thomas in regards to the finale. It’s an excellent interview that dives into how a lot of the motion was truly shot in Rockefeller Center, the secrecy behind Kingpin, the banter between Kate and Yelena, and extra.

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