Steven Yeun bolts from Marvel’s Thunderbolts
The hits keep on coming as the expanding multiverse loses one of its newest players
Aux News Thunderbolts
Perhaps sparing himself from headlines recapping the underwhelming box office of yet another Marvel film, Steven Yeun has exited Thunderbolts, per Variety. This comes after fans rejoiced over his entrance into the MCU last February. At the time, mere days after the release of Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania, a canary in the coal mine for 2023’s extended bout with superhero fatigue, Yeun was an exciting get for the MCU. Now, it seems he’s avoiding having his name dragged by the Monday morning studio execs at The A.V. Club. His loss!
Yeun was expected to play a major role in the series—though Invincible creator and frequent Yeun collaborator, Robert Kirkman, said the actor was playing The Sentry. However, it was never officially announced what that role was, how it would fit into Phase 5, or whether or not he was, in fact, a Skrull. We no longer know if that’s a good or bad thing, but the question remains unanswered.
Thunderbolts isn’t just any Marvel project, though. It’s a major crossover event, the kind they never make anymore, joining characters from Ant-Man And The Wasp, The Falcon And The Winter Solider, and Black Widow. It’s a collection of everyone’s favorite third-tier Marvel heroes that populated whatever phase we’re currently in. Some big names are still expected to show up for Thunderbolts, including Florence Pugh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, and Harrison Ford. Ford, who is still with the project, called the upcoming Phase 5 capper, Captain America: Brave New World, a “piece of shit,” and we were all supposed to pretend he was kidding.
Yeun’s exit is yet another blow to Marvel Studios. Aside from searching for a new Kang The Conqueror following Jonathan Majors’ recent firing, Marvel has faced a downturn in the superhero movie market, particularly after the release of The Marvels, the studio’s first movie to fail to reach $100 million at the domestic box office. Currently, Marvel only has two things officially on the docket this year: Deadpool 3 (oh, the jokes he’ll make about all this) and Echo, which, for Disney’s sake, better generate some excitement over quipping vigilantes in underlit rooms.
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Gonna guess that with the recent failures that they are cutting budgets on new projects and renegotiating salaries. I bet we see a lot of actors dropping out because Marvel money isn’t gonna be what it use to be
The oddest part is that they really aren’t failures, they just aren’t as big of successes as they used to be.
Excluding The Marvels of course.
I guess? I haven’t even bothered checking to see how it has done overseas because its a movie that defines the term ‘mediocre’. It seemed purposely designed not to have any impact outside of its post-credit scene and moving Ms. Marvel closer to the rest of the second generation Avengers.Though Secret Invasion didn’t help its prospects at all. Pretty much had everyone going in going in expecting the worse.
I still liked it better than Thor 2 and Quantumania though.
I didn’t see it, so I only mean it’s a failure in a financial sense. It has grossed $205 million worldwide against a $220 million production budget (after rebates, excluding marketing and distribution costs). But every other MCU film, including less well-liked entries like Quantumania, can be described like you said: not failures, just not as big of successes as they used to be.
“I didn’t see it”
The shut the fuck up you sad, pathetic loser.
Having worked at the management level of retail, “just aren’t as big of successes as they used to be” is, in fact, the business equivalent of failure.ALWAYS GOTTA GO UP. If you haven’t made infinite wealth by the time you’re 40, why were you even born?
I doubt that is what is leading Yeun to leave so much as scheduling issues caused by a film that was supposed to shoot months ago that is not in purgatory in part because of the strikes and a bottleneck.
Yeah, I’m sure they were breaking the bank with Yeun’s salary.
nah if anything they’re probably spending MORE and going for more executive oversight. disney usually succeeds by accident and fails on purpose.
A lot of MCU actors had back-end deals that gave them a cut of the profits. If it’s a flop, no profits to be had.
You do realize that there is a middle ground between “everything Marvel does is amazing” and “there’s some superhero fatigue so everything Marvel makes is an unsalvageable mess,” right? Yes, recently some things have been underwhelming (Quantumania, Secret Invasion), and some have underperformed (The Marvels), but some have been quite good and do well commercially (Loki Season 2, Guardians 3).* All of these things can be true at the same time. Admittedly, Thunderbolts does sound like it’ll be a bit of a dud, but no more so than Guardians 1 or Ragnarok did, so who knows – it might end up being a lot of fun.In the meantime, at a certain point, snark just for snark’s sake just comes off as pointlessly obnoxious.
* Yes, yes, I know, these are my opinions and your mileage may vary. The overall point stands.
I’ve been told snark for snark’s sake is why we’re still here. And admittedly, this was a good one: “Ford, who is still with the project, called the upcoming Phase 5 capper, Captain America: Brave New World, a “piece of shit,” and we were all supposed to pretend he was kidding”-
A real Tony Snark and no mistake.
Snark has nearly always been a feature of popular journalism. Anyone who has read H.L Mencken or Mike Royko wouldn’t blush at this.
Was there someone here arguing that snark as a whole is terrible, and has no place in popular journalism? Or did you just want to drop some names you know?
The snark around here used to be funny and incisive, but after years of brain drain we’re left with the odious performative aloofness that defines articles like this one. As others are putting it, it’s just snark for snark’s sake, and it’s just tiresome.
I just dismissed my regular troll for enjoying some “trolling for trolling sake” and that’s been a feature here for at least two years too.
Glass houses.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Are you suggesting my remark was hypocritical because someone else was trolling you?
Everyone [else] is a hypocrite……
Don’t worry about it. BreadnMaters dismissed me for making the same basic comment you did — no one’s objecting to snark, but to snark for snark’s sake.Also, I make a joke about BreadnMaters’ decision that we all needed a little history lesson on the history of snark, and some name-dropping of historical snarky people.
This article was irritating. Snark for snarks sake is exactly what I was thinking. I don’t mind snark if it’s funny or clever, but it rarely is at the AV Club these days
O’Neal is rolling over in his grave.
Interesting how you’re claiming that The Marvels simply “underperformed” instead of also classifying it as “underwhelming.” It was massively underwhelming, and to say it “underperformed” is like saying a Formula 1 race car can go “sorta fast.”
I don’t know about anyone else but I legit have “Superhero fatigue”-fatigue now.There’s alot of correlation/causation stuff going around at the moment regarding the drop in Marvel quality and box office but it isn’t superhero fatigue at all, it’s the cinema industry disappearing up it’s own budgets.Half of last years “duds” weren’t Superhero fare, but standard blockbuster fare. With audiences dwindling for ALL projects, not just Marvel/DC properties. Even an absolute home-run in Mission Impossible: Insert Sub-Title Later was relatively poor performing despite being a critical darling (and a genuinely brilliant actioner).The Marvels, a film I thought was relatively breezy and fun, had critics saying “well I just had NO idea who all these characters were because I didn’t do the home reading” about a film that actually provided clear subtext for who ALL those characters were and no, I hadn’t seen Ms Marvel or read prior comics without realising just how silly that makes them look. It wasn’t Primer people, it was fairly simple to follow from context IN the film and subtext in dialogue, that Ms Marvel was a fangirl who had powers from a bangle and had a traditional American/Pakistani family set up.Ultimately post-COVID, people are being VERY choosy about what they take to the cinema to see and this means that every franchise is no longer able to get away with the tried and tested formula of (IP+Star*Marketing = PROFITS) whether they contain superheroes, spies, literary greats, cowboys or ninjas.
In addition to what you said about The Marvels (which I completely agree with), it was a victim of the strikes. Like, none of the actors could promote it, nobody on the writing team could, so of course nobody really knew it was coming out. It could have been the best of the best of Marvel’s film output, but of course it wasn’t going to do well, even before we get into how people react to female superhero movies (let alone ones starring women of color). I do think superhero fatigue can come into play, but people have been hand-wringing about it since at *least* 2016. Oy vey.
That on top of people are conditioned for releases to hit streaming in a very short window… so many are just saying, “I’ll wait”. I’m seeing this exact thing constantly and the studios trying to grab those streaming subscribers are also the ones shooting their own movies in the foot.
Yep. If they want the movies to do better in the theaters, they have to go back to the old, OLD release window for DVDs and apply it to streaming. People are only going to the theaters in droves for the big event films – Guardians 3, Black Panther 2, anything Spider-Man, Barbenheimer. Everything else is a wait and see approach.
My aunt has apparently never seen a single MCU thing somehow, went to the Marvels with my mom, and loved it. This made me realize that the interconnectivity concerns are overblown in general. Yeah I’m sure lots went over both of their heads (it was afterall a sequel that they hadn’t seen the original of) but sometimes people just want a fun time at the movies and are fine brushing aside that they don’t know what the full deal is with the cats or whatever.
Exactly this.Throw me in a room with that cast and some space cats that have tentacle insides with TARDIS-like qualities, and I’m not sure I need much more.And yes it was chewable Marvel fare but it swang for the fences in a way other Blockbuster fare hasn’t recently, with the musical number and the theatre references and (I understand from other more qualified commenters though culturally I cannot confirm) a genuine representation of an American-Pakistani household in a major motion picture.More of that please over “roll up, roll up, this here Tommy Cruise is going to perform the most death-defying! DAZZLING! DELIRIOUS! STUNTS! as the character you’ve only seen 7 times before who’s sole character-trait is American-Bond… with sexy results!” and that’s coming from a guy who did enjoy MI:DR:P1
Not when you’ve got clicks to whooooooore!
My mileage on how good MCU movies are is hit or miss, but I think frankly that was always the case and we now remember Phases 1 – 3 with rose colored glasses because they stuck the landing. I also think there is something to be said about adjusting the box office to match the reality of movie going now. People are not going to the movies like they were. The billion dollar hits are extremely few and far between relative to 2017 – 2018. But beyond that, the fact that this article fully ignores that Thunderbolts is delayed with very little definitive filming dates because of the strikes is both odd and out of step with all other reporting.
Even while the franchise was firing on all cylinders, writers were noting that the stronger entries were carrying the weaker ones, and the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Pretending it’s gone from consistently good (it wasn’t) to consistently bad (it isn’t) is the same sort of trashy punditry we see in conservative politics and reactionary YouTubers.
They’ve now spent several years creating bad content and introducing new characters that nobody cares about. It’s kind of hard to get excited about team-up movies involving those new characters. The MCU isn’t salvageable, because nearly all of the stuff they’ve released since Endgame is meant to lay the groundwork for a bigger story most of us have already lost interest in.
Came here to say this. Is anyone really looking forward to this movie? I think there is definitely a feeling of “Superhero Fatigue” out there, but I think it’s mostly “Tired of Bad Stories.” These studios make these franchise movies just to make them and keep laying track, but never hone them into good stories. Captain America: Winter Soldier was a hell of a good story and for my money, is still the best MCU film. Ant-Man 3 was made solely to introduce Kang. That’s not a reason to make a movie. The studios are not learning that just because you have thousands of characters to mine doesn’t mean they are all interesting enough to lead a movie/show/book. There’s a reason why the comic book industry is propped up by, like, 10-15 characters. Nobody cares about these…well, nobodies.
I’m looking forward to it. Rebooting the same handful of A-list characters over and over got old decades ago; and Black Widow had a pretty fun supporting cast.
Also, as someone who likes Steven Yeun, I don’t think the success of Thunderbolts is going to hang on his presence or absence.
It’s telling that you list commercial performances instead of actual opinions. I’ll never understand why fans were so forgiving with the movies, they’d rant how boring and ugly the “good” ones are.
Except I did give my opinions? I only mentioned underperformance for The Marvels, but for the others I also said whether they were good or not in my estimation. Genuinely no idea what you’re talking about.
A single word is not an opinion, learn to talk like a human.
After you learn to read.
They were listing commercial performance in response specifically to the idea of “fatigue”. Also, the “performant” ones they listed – Loki S2 and GotG 3 – were excellent and had a good critical reception too.
Nah, MCU has been dogshit since Endgame
Nothing more fun to read than the middle ground. But it’s also inaccurate – they’ve been dropping turds and winnowing down their audience for several years.
This latest season of ‘What if…?’ is one of the best things Marvel’s ever put out, hands down (and really REALLY makes me wish they’d had the balls to make the Dr Strange multiverse movie they should have made in the first place. Red means go my ass).
If he is or isn’t a skrull? Oh no… At this point, I’d rather that plot got a soft reboot instead of Kang. I know they’ve franchised themselves into a corner with this arc, but I’d be ok if Marvel quietly just never spoke of the skrulls again, and moved on. Like the inhumans.
As for Yeun, it’s probably for the best. His star is on the rise, and I don’t want any pitfalls. Superhero paydays are nice, though. Maybe he can do something in James Gunn’s DC.
So in other words, the Skrulls all died on the way to their (new) home planet?
When I was a kid, I used the Kree-Skrull War as an indicator of which Fantastic Four comics to avoid. Introducing the Fantastic Four’s convoluted cosmology before the actual characters is certainly a choice.
Sentry? Lol. He supossedly the older version of Amadeus Cho, especially after/how they defeated “not the main villain” Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross a.k.a the Red Hulk.
Someone who was working with Yeun this summer tweeted that he told them he was playing Sentry…. did you convince yourself he’s playing Amadeus Cho because he’s Asian? Because that, my friend, is racist.
Maybe a focus on profitability will convince Marvel to shape more films and TV around really great fits (read: non name actors), rather than stocking casts with a Mad Libs of great name actors who should really be off doing something more in their lanes.
So be the CW?
Yeah, but with better budgets, perhaps. LOL, that’s my pitch: CW with a big budget!
is this the highest profile person to leave a marvel project mid-production of their own volition*?i’m guessing those extensive reshoots they’ve planned for this year didn’t gel with his schedule and it was easier to remove him.*i’m excluding people like ed norton or terrance howard who were effectively fired.
To classify Thunderbolts as “mid-production” is probably generous. Because of the strikes, it hasn’t even started filming yet. It is arguably still in pre-production. Every other outlet is reporting it as a likely scheduling issue – while Thunderbolts is scheduled to come out in 2025, it isn’t even clear when it will film.
you’re right, i was confusing it with the other mcu harrison ford movie, the one that’s going through extensive reshoots this year.
Wasnt the whole point of Falcon and Bucky supposed to set up the Thunderbolts? Didn’t that air like 3 yrs ago? And now that movie is STILL barely in production in 2024?
I didn’t say that it was barely in production. I said it’s arguably still in pre-production (i.e. nothing has been filmed), but the answer is a pandemic and two strikes. It was supposed to start filming in June 2023. Two strikes made that impossible. I really don’t think that was the whole point of that show, but they also had to get all the other pieces in place – Black Widow, Wakanda Forever and Captain America 4 all appear to be relevant. Allegedly, they are going to shoot beginning in March – April 2024, but there are several actors (Florence Pugh and David Harbour, most notably) who have other commitments that might push that out further.
Everything else put out by mcu during pandemic basically made it out on time. This movie for whatever reason has clearly missed its window. The time for a TBs movie was 2023 at the latest. Half the future Thunderbolts characters (black widow jr, Captain Russia, Taskmaster) were introduced way back in 2020s Black Widow, which is already long forgotten. Nobody remembers anything from the Falcon/Bucky introduction to US Agent and Julia Lewis Drefus character. They’ve got another “The Marvels” on their hands now, and they haven’t even popped off a damn camera lense yet.
You keep referencing 2020, but none of the properties you’re referencing came out in 2020 – Falcon and the Winter Soldier came out in March 2021. Black Widow came out in July 2021 and Yelena was linked to Valentina in December 2021 (Hawkeye). Valentina was in Wakanda Forever which came out in 2022. William Hurt also died in the middle of it all and Harrison Ford had to be brought in to replace him (and won’t appear until Captain America 4). All the properties that were delayed by the pandemic: Wandavision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Thor, and Wakanda Forever that all created a bottleneck.
they didn’t even announce thunderbolts until last june
“is this the highest profile person to leave a marvel project mid-production
No, because Thunderbolts is not “mid-production”. It’s not even at the beginning of production. It’s is still, literally, in pre-production.
This is all Robert Kirkman’s fault!
Can Ayo Edebiri be Sentry?
Is that a bird call?
“It’s a major crossover event, the kind they never make anymore…”The most recent theatrical release combined a direct sequel with follow-ups to two (or three or four) streaming series, plus a cameo tied to an entirely different film franchise.
Also, Avengers: Endgame came out in 2019. Unless the writer’s six years old, it seems weird to characterize that as some bygone era.
yeah i mean, even the marvels is technically a major crossover event, it just ended up being extremely minor.
Covid makes it feel like a bygone era.
I’d say that last Spider-Man also qualifies as a major crossover thing.
I think that was hamfisted sarcasm.
I heard Harrison Ford said Matt Schimkowitz is also a piece of shit.Seriously there’s no statement as to the reason for Yeun’s departure and everything negative regarding the MCU in this newswire is 100% speculative. What clickbait trash.
A movie with nothing but Marvel 3rd-stringers as the characters…. That’ll need a buttload of Marvel-groveling goobers forking over their cash to keep the flick from being a bomb. Yeun made the right call.
You make a great point here. Yes the Marvel universe has tons of characters, but most are known only to a fairly narrow fangroup, and it feels like the Marvel movies are scraping the barrel at this point, for characters that can actually carry a film that merits a gargantuan budget.
Which isn’t to say they shouldn’t make movies about those characters. The issue really seems to be the budget. I think they should take a step back, and try making smaller budgeted films that are better able to make a profit upon a less well known IP, and then you can build it up.
They’re scraping the bottom of the toy box because they refuse to take X-Men and F4 out of their original packaging and start playing with them. From a story and creativity standpoint, I actually like that they’re focusing on lesser-known characters and have the freedom to tell more original stories… but from a business standpoint, given the recent stumbles, I feel like the answer is to break out the big guns ASAP*. *Once a well-planned release strategy and narrative arc is plotted out.
I mean, people forget that Iron Man was a second-stringer before the movie came out (as was Downey, JR, in what may be the most brilliant casting move that almost didn’t work out for insurance reasons in the history of movies).
Personally I’ve always felt like “Avengers were second string before MCU” thing is a bit of an exaggeration. There were Iron Man cartoons in the early 90s and Hulk had his own live-action show in the 70s. I’d also wager if you asked your average person to start naming superheroes, pre-2000, the first Marvel character they’d name (after rattling off Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, and perhaps Aquaman) would have been either Spiderman or an Avenger (probably not Iron Man, but likely Hulk or Captain America). I’d agree with you that within the world of comics readers the X-Men were the 800 lb gorilla (especially for nerds of a certain age, like myself) but in the broader public conscious I’m not sure anyone knew who the hell Wolverine was until Hugh Jackman suited up. I think of my own parents, who certainly could have named DC’s main roster plus Hulk/Spiderman/Cap, but couldn’t have named a member of the X-Men to save their lives (and probably still can’t). I also strongly agree re: Downey as Iron Man being perhaps the most perfect casting in comics-to-movie history, even better than Patrick Stewart as Professor X (if only because the latter was so obvious).When I think of “second stringers” I think of, like, Jessica Jones/Luke Cage/Iron Fist (Daredevil is debatable), or the Marvels. One could argue Black Widow and Hawkeye were second string, in which case, what does that make Kate Bishop or Maya Lopez/Echo? In that context, it is kind of mind-blowing Echo (who I do like) has made her debut in the MCU before the X-Men or F4*. *Yes, this is debatable, given Multiverse of Madness.
Because of rights issues, the MCU started off with third-string characters. Iron Man was at best a B-level, mostly C-level character, and Captain America was a joke to many modern readers. The big names – the X-Men, Spider-man, Fantastic Four – were all unusable. But then the Iron Man movie was amazing and that changed everything. You make an amazing movie, people are going to notice.
I’m not sure that was true in 2008. Marvel had been pushing the Avengers as the prime mover and shaker in the universe for at least 5 years prior to the movies so I think comic book fans at the time saw them as a A list based on sales and the fact that every major Marvel crossover for years had been based around the characters.As far as the general, non Wednesday Warriors, Marvel had been marketing characters like Captain America and Iron Man for almost 50 years by 2008 so the general public could easily recognize the characters even if they had no idea what had happened to the characters since they were 10. The general public was very aware of who those characters were, they just had never seen them presented in a passable form outside of the comics medium.The problem is that the truly B and C level Marvel characters like Moon Knight or characters that have been created in the 21st century don’t ring any bells for the general audience and by and large don’t create any nostalgia for casuals so they need to be Trojan horsed into the MCU like Guardians was. Making something like the Thunderbolts without the Avengers carrying them is Disney trying to wag the dog by shaking his tail. It doesn’t work and it won’t going forward if Disney refuses to anchor the franchise.Marvel had this exact same problem in the 70s after Stan and Jack and Steve left and fans like Roy Thomas took over with an obsession over comic minuta instead of telling new stories and the snake has been swallowing it’s tail ever since.
Maybe I wasn’t a comic store nerd but if you had asked me, in 2007, to answer a single question about Iron Man, I would not have been able to. Like yeah, I knew he was a character, and he showed up in crossovers, but that’s where it ended. And then the trailer came out and RDJ was in it and people were cheering in the theater like I had never heard before and never heard since.
I get that. That’s why most superhero movies start with origin. Most people don’t know his origins or who Iron Man’s villains are or anything like that but if you put him in a trailer or on a poster, most people will be able to identify that it is Iron Man and that’s the most important part of marketing. Iron Man was a key player in the comics and marketing of Marvel comics for a decade plus by the time the movie was made. I would say that the excitement was for seeing a Marvel superhero being treated properly on film for the first time and not RDJ who was propelled to blockbuster stardom after the movie and not before.I’ve been comic nerd forever but not interested in superhero movies at all so I’ve always found it fascinating what superhero movie fans think about the comic book medium and I don’t mean that in a snobby way at all. It really has been interesting to see what the general mass public responds to with superheroes after it being contained to entertainment for children or the socially disabled for the previous decades. Occasional hits like Superman and Batman notwithstanding.
AND you can make total crap with shit-tier nobodies and people are going to notice.
Spider-Man is amazing. Iron Man is invincible.
A movie with nothing but Marvel 3rd-stringers as the characters..So, like Guardians of the Galaxy.
marvel fans stop saying ‘what about guardians of the galaxy’ and smirking challenge. it was 10 years ago, it was entirely a lucky break on james gunn’s part, and it’s never been replicated.it was the right thing in the right place at the right time. it was actual magic. it’s not a switch they can just flip whenever they want.
Also, Guardians of the Galaxy introduced a new group of characters. That’s different from taking minor characters from other movies and saying “they’re a super-team now.” Last time Marvel tried to introduce a new supergroup it was The Eternals.
stop sayingOh, and Ant Man.
Yea the one time that worked…. Doesn’t justify trying and failing to constantly force the same trick over and over again with worsen results.
This whole, “let’s try and make all of our 3rd-5th tier characters into household names” trend needs to stop. Start acting like 90s movie producers again and leave the nobodies in the comic spinoffs where they belong.
Joining an MCU project in 2024 is like signing to the Bulls in 1999.
Lol!
Da Bulls!
I know this exit is supposedly because of scheduling conflicts, but with how secretive they are I wouldn’t be surprised if the fact he told Kirkman his role (who then told the world) also had a impact in how willing Disney was to accommodate him for anything.
Thunderbolts is SO behind schedule that I suspect they honestly just couldn’t make it work.
All he had to do was like the gift. It’s not a big deal. He had too small a slice.
I was glad when Glen got his head knocked out of the park
So much edge for such a little dude!
He’s asian, they’re usually not that big
The magic thing about the MCU before the pandemic was that it was the most expensive serial in movie history. One could go to the next release and expect the ongoing story to move forward, at least somewhat. That was exciting and fun, like big-budget comic TV.
But, the second they released Black Widow- a lukewarm prequel that should have come out after Civil War, and on the small screen, no less- they lost their mojo and have not yet found their way back.
From there, the missteps have been many: (1) dilluting their brand with too-expensive but less-than-spectacular TV shows, (2) killing off many of the most popular characters, and (3) no real coherent ongoing story anymore that audiences care much about,etc.
Now, it’s like they are just flogging a dead horse expeciting the same magic with the same stale quip-laden stories that audiences have seen a million times already.
I imagine that if there hadn’t been a global, year-long pandemic, and GOT3 had directly followed Endgame (and/or Black Widow had directly followed up on the plot of Endgame), then things might still be on track, but c’est la vie.
Yawn. Wake me up when Alpha Flight get the call for a movie. Or maybe they’d have to be a Sony pic.
I heard* he just didn’t want to work out that hard and starve himself to get the Marvel superhero physique.* By “heard” I mean I made that up.
Wow. Best example of taking someone’s comment out of context with Harrison Ford’s comment.
I still cannot fathom this cast of characters. Like, who is demanding a movie with this roster, let alone anyone familiar with the “Thunderbolts” name:GhostWhite WidowRed GuardianU.S. AgentTaskmasterAllegra de FontaineWinter Soldier.Literally the only familiar/interesting character there is Bucky/Winter Soldier, and I like most of those other actors. They just don’t make sense as a Thunderbolts team.
There was never any actual evidence Yeun was attached to the project in the first place. The Kirkman statement sounded like he was joking at the time, knowing it would be controversial, and folks are just mega desperate for news to publish. You can’t exit a film you weren’t in. Unless Yeun or someone actually at Marvel said something this whole thing never should have been “news” in the first place