“Over a rather intense three- or four-day period, our fantastic animation team spitballed a bunch of ideas, which we pre-visualized and cut together ourselves,” Aitken says, adding that certain beats were in that initial description, such as the moment where Gamora takes out a gorilla-like alien creature charging at Carol. But how they were going to do that was still an open question up until February 2019, when Aitken received a call from Marvel asking Weta to take a three-sentence description and turn it into an action-packed scene worthy of cheers and applause. That one shot establishes the female heroes’ mission in the scene: clearing a path for Carol so that she can get the gauntlet to the safety of Scott Lang’s van, where the last remaining time machine is housed. People kept saying to me, ‘Why is Nat not in that scene?’ I guess they know now!” “I had seen a couple early cuts of the film, so I knew why Black Widow wasn’t there, but I didn’t want to let on to anyone else at Weta Digital. But at the time, Aitken was one of the few crew members privy to that piece of information, and he was careful not to share it. As we all know now, Black Widow sacrifices herself midway through the movie so that her fellow Avengers can recover the Soul Stone. “They shot the moment where all the women come together in support of Captain Marvel,” Aitken confirms, adding that the only actresses not present were Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie’s entrance on Pegasus was accomplished via a digital double) and, of course, Scarlett Johansson.

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