'Avengers: Endgame' directors try to predict the ending of 'Game of Thrones'

If one thing is clear from the Avengers: Endgame press tour so far, it's that Joe and Anthony Russo absolutely do not, under any circumstances, want to talk right now about how their story ends.

How someone else's story ends, though, is another story.

I spoke with the directors at the height of the Game of Thrones hype, exactly one week ahead of the final season premiere.

Like many of us, the Russos were more than happy to speculate -- but also like many of us, neither seemed particularly confident about their guesses.

Joe told me that, even as a storyteller himself, it was "tough" for him to figure out how Game of Thrones might go.

"That show is so well-written that I can't imagine it's going to be predictable," he said. "But then I try to go, Well, all right, how is unpredictable going to be satisfying? So it's impossible to say."

Anthony had some more concrete ideas about how the plot would unfold.

"It feels like Winterfell is going to get destroyed, and it's going to drive them south," said Anthony. "So in your brain, you go, Well, everyone's going to need a new home at some point, so a satisfying ending can't be that everyone dies." (Apparently, the Russos draw the line at half of everyone dying.)

Anthony seemed more certain about what he hoped would happen.

"Somebody's gotta get on that throne, in a way there's some benevolence moving forward," he said. "Otherwise, it's a really fucking depressing ending."