Russo brothers ‘definitely open’ to developing games tied to upcoming Avengers movies
The production company founded by the Russo brothers has big plans in the gaming space
The Russo brothers have said their production company AGBO is receptive to the idea of developing games tied to their upcoming Avengers movies.
Having previously co-directed Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, plus two Captain America films, Joe and Anthony Russo are helming next year’s Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
Their most recent film, The Electric State, launches this week on Netflix, and AGBO helped the streaming giant develop a tie-in mobile game which is also releasing this month.
In 2022, South Korean gaming giant Nexon made a strategic minority investment of $400 million in AGBO, and the following November it was confirmed that Fortnite co-creator Donald Mustard had joined the production company as a partner after leaving Epic Games.
In a new interview with Variety, the Russos said they have big plans in the gaming space, and while they’re currently focused on large-scale transmedia projects based on new IP, they aren’t ruling out creating tie-ins for their upcoming Avengers movies.
“We would definitely be open to it,” Joe Russo said when asked about the possibility, before adding. “Right now, what we’re doing is creating new IP.”
Russo went on to discuss AGBO’s current “mission” following Mustard coming on board.
“We have a new partner at the company who is one of the greatest game developers in history, Donald Mustard, he’s the creator of Fortnite, and he’s come in now to work with us on building out what we think the future of storytelling could be, which is, some hybrid between linear and virtual and gaming. And we’re really interested in new ways to tell stories using technology.
“And so the three of us together are trying to explore and ideate around what opportunities there could be over the next decade using new tools and new technology to tell stories and can we make it can we make it true transmedia, where the same assets that we’re using for CG in movies is also the same assets that are in the game, that are also the same assets in a virtual experience.”
