One of Avengers: End Game's directors Joe Russo is in India for the promotion of his film which is hitting theater screens on April 26, 2019and during one of his interviews the director shared information about Indian cinema's connection to the Avengers series.
About the Joss Whedon directed second Avengers film (Age of Ultron) Russo said, “Interesting story, that I think will be a really good headline tomorrow,is that Robot (Shankar directed Enthiran starring Rajinikanth) almost influenced the climactic moment in Avengers: Age of Ultron. So you know, in Robot, where all the robots form a snake? All the Ultrons in Ultron came together to form a large Ultron, but it had to get cut for time.”
While on the subject of Indian films and heroes, Russo also shared that if he had to cast, he would place Rajinikanth in the role of Iron Man and Salman Khan in the role of Hulk. Watch his statement here:
"Rajinikanth's #Robot had influenced Avengers Age Of Ultron" - @Russo_Brothers
— Prince Prithvi (@PrincePrithvi) April 3, 2019
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When asked about the potential of working with an Indian actor Joe Russo stated, “I’d love to work with Priyanka (Chopra)..I’m smiling only because we’re potentially talking to her about something, I’m just not going to say what yet.”