Per Variety, eagle-eyed Marvel fans combed through the Writer's Guild of America directory and spotted the screenwriting credits for Avengers: Doomsday, which list Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman among the 10 writers who worked on the film.
We'll call the ten-writer team the Ten, because the Guild's database has no better name for it and Marvel was clearly not asked to provide one. Per IndieWire, the official screenplay belongs to Marvel regulars Stephen McFeely and Michael Waldron. The eight "additional literary material" credits go to Reynolds, Jackman, Eric Pearson, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Loveness, Andrew Lanham and Destin Daniel Cretton.
Reynolds is no stranger to the writer's room; he co-wrote Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine. Jackman is writing his first thing. The credits do not announce it, but they erase all doubt that the two of them are in the movie, which is the most efficient announcement Marvel has ever shipped. No press release. No teaser. A union database update.
The list reads like a who's who of the franchise, and it should. Cretton directed Thunderbolts, Pearson wrote The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Per IndieWire, the film has to catch everyone up from Endgame, introduce Robert Downey Jr.'s Dr. Doom, fold in the Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four characters and debut a new X-Men. The production started shooting without a finished script, per World of Reel. Ten people stitched the thing together while the cameras were rolling.
The PR read: a Guild directory is a filing cabinet, not a leak source, but a filing cabinet fans can search is the best kind of leak. The studio confirmed its two biggest names by doing absolutely nothing, and now every fan site's "report" is a directory screenshot.
YOUR TURN: When the writing credit is the reveal, what is left for the trailer to say?
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