Hollywood star Steven Yeun is about to make his debut in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with the upcoming film Thunderbolts, in accordance with a report.
The movie, which was formally introduced at Disney’s D23 Expo in 2022, is predicated round a group of Marvel supervillains — in what looks like Marvel’s try at its personal Suicide Squad — reported American outlet Deadline.
Yeun, identified for his performances in The Strolling Useless present and films resembling Okja, Minari, and Nope, will play a key function within the Marvel Studios movie, which may additional lengthen to different associated tasks.
He joins an ensemble solid that features Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour because the Pink Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Wyatt Russell as John Walker, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
A report from final yr urged that Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones motion pictures) was becoming a member of the solid of Thunderbolts as properly, changing the late William Damage as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. However earlier than that, he’ll make an look in Captain America: New World Order because the blustering Normal, which marks the penultimate entry in MCU’s Section 5 — releasing Could 3, 2024. Thunderbolts is the ultimate entry within the section.
Jake Schreier of Paper Cities-fame will direct the movie from a script by Black Widow author Eric Pearson. The film is scheduled for launch on July 26, 2024.
Within the Marvel comics, the Thunderbolts is a group of villains, anti-heroes and reformed baddies.
Yeun will subsequent be seen in Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s subsequent characteristic movie Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson within the lead.
