Green screens are used, costumes are unfinished, and there’s a fair amount of imagination needed to pull off performances for the genre.
With three comic book shared universes producing regular installments, superhero movies are everywhere.
Set photos can help point out the sometimes silly aspect of filming, and one just surfaced from the set of the next two Avengers films which shows Paul Bettany casually doing some paperwork… clad completely in his Vision costume.
And while audiences clammer to the theater to watch their favorite superpowered characters duke it out, the magic isn’t quite as palpable during filming.