FANTASTIC FOUR Star Says AVENEGERS: DOOMSDAY Script Had No Ending and It Kept Changing

Marvel fans already expect a bit of controlled chaos when it comes to their big movies, but this latest insight into Avengers: Doomsday takes things to another level.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays The Thing in the MCU’s Fantastic Four: First Steps, recently opened up about his experience working on Avengers: Doomsday, and it sounds like even the cast was trying to piece together what exactly was going on.

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Moss-Bachrach compared the production of Doomsday to his time on Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the difference couldn’t have been clearer.

"Doomsday was different in that it's a bigger movie with more moving parts, and I think it was more compartmentalized, whereas Fantastic Four: First Steps, we were there like every every day, every day, having a sense of the thing," he explained.

That sense of cohesion apparently didn’t carry over to the crossover event. Instead, the actor described a production that leaned heavily into its cosmic scale, sometimes at the expense of clarity.

"These movies are so interstellar and so galactic and conceptual. So, it's very hard sometimes to understand what's going on in the story. And Doomsday was a little bit harder for me to hold all the parts.

“And, I mean, I knew where I was, I knew which planets, which universe I was in. But how it was connecting to other universes, I would have to go back to, like, 'Joe [Russo] can you just, I know you've talked me through, can you just tell me one more time?'"

Multiple universes, shifting locations, and even the actors needing refreshers from Joe Russo definitely suggest a story that’s going to be all over the place.

But here’s the part that really raises eyebrows. When asked if he had seen a complete script, Moss-Bachrach said: "Yeah, I did read a full script, but those scripts change quite a bit. You know what? Probably not, it probably didn't have a full, like, third act. I don't think it had an ending. I don't think anyone gets to see that stuff."

No ending. It’s crazy that Marvel is still making movies this way. The first thing I was taught in Screenwriting 101 is to lnow your ending before you even start writing the script so you know what you are working toward, so everything builds toward something cohesive.

Yet here’s Marvel, still spending hundreds of millions of dollars operating in a way that feels more like assembling a puzzle while it’s already being filmed.

Moss-Bachrach also shared what it was like working alongside Robert Downey Jr., who returns to the MCU as Doctor Doom.

"Yeah, oh yeah," he confirmed when asked if he saw Downey Jr. in action, calling the experience "great," before adding: "What a wonderful man. Like, what a great set leader he was.

“He's been doing this for a long time and he was so generous and really, like, checking in, making sure everyone was good. Really good coach energy there... I would look around the room and it'd be like, 'There's Ian McKellan, and there's Channing Tatum,' it's a lot."

From what we’ve seen in early footage, The Thing makes his way to Wakanda, offering a little tease at just how far this story will stretch across the MCU.

Whether Marvel sticks the landing or not is still a big question, but if you’re into sprawling multiverse madness and huge character crossovers, this movie sounds like it’s going all in.

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18.