Marvel veterans Joe and Anthony Russo were supposedly out of the MCU, but the duo have revealed what enticed them to return for more Avengers films.

Since Avengers: Endgame, it seemed like the Russo Brothers were moving on, with no interest in returning to direct any other Marvel movies. Although they had maintained close contact with everyone at the studios, Anthony and Joe Russo told Empire magazine that the team lacked a solid storyline that would encourage them to return.

Avengers filmmakers… assemble. Five years after directing duo Anthony and Joe Russo ended an era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige announced that the Russo brothers would be returning to helm the Multiverse Saga-ending Avengers: Doomsday (dated May 1,

Reunited on the forthcoming Marvel films with screenwriter Steven McFeely — one half of the partnership of Markus and McFeely, who scripted all the prior Russo Brothers Marvel films— Joe Russo, in this week’s profile, recalls calling the latter with a “crazy idea.”

Joe and Anthony Russo debuted as directors for Marvel Studios with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). Last year, reports came in that the duo was in talks to comeback to Marvel Studios for is fifth and sixth Avengers movies.