Once players got hooked on the game’s addictive battle royale formula, expanding Fortnite’s game world into a bigger phenomenon that extends deep into pop culture - from digital concerts to timed events to all those Marvel, Star Wars, and other big-screen character crossovers - was as inevitable as Thanos’ fateful snap. They’re evidently big fans of Fortnite’s new focus on story: “ Fortnite holds a unique place in pop culture, and we think Donald Mustard is a visionary storyteller who continues to take us all into unexplored territory,” the Russos said in a statement to Variety.įortnite has reportedly been building toward its recent emphasis on a bigger-picture arc from the very beginning. See for yourself if you can detect the Russos’ creative fingerprints:įortnite brought the Russos in to team with Epic chief creative officer Donald Mustard, and they co-directed the Season 6 cinematic trailer with the kind of pensive flourish that’s easily recognizable for MCU fans who watched Thanos stalk the Asgardian corridors of the Statesman at the beginning of Infinity War. A day after Fortnite unveiled its cinematic trailer to set up events for the game’s new Chapter 2, Season 6 storyline, Variety reported that the Russos had a big hand in directing the clip. Yep, Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors of Avengers: Endgame, and a slew of other MCU movie standouts are now officially part of the creative wizardry behind Fortnite’s expanding push beyond its addictive (but decidedly non-narrative) player-versus-player action. Epic Games had increasingly been inching Agent Jonesy’s narrative mission closer and closer to the spotlight, just at the time when seeing his story unfold onscreen gained a graphical boost to make all those cutscene cinematics worth watching…and that was before the Russo brothers got involved.

Thanks to its recent launch on next-gen consoles, Fortnite already was beginning to look less like a run-of-the-mill, free-to-play battle royale fracas and more like a $70 AAA game.

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