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Steven Yeun Drops Out Of Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ Pic After Production Was Pushed Due To Dual Strikes (deadline.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Er, this was gonna be his first marvel movie, and the reason given is that the delays caused by the strikes has induced a scheduling conflict. Bit of a stretch to say he didn't want to be involved anymore given he never was and that scheduling issues are pretty common.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I’m not saying that this is the beginning of the end, just sharing my thought experiment and noting how coincidental it is.

Otherwise, getting a bit conspiratorial … isn’t the MCU big enough that an actor would make it work to be in an MCU film? Wouldn’t the MCU have enough pull to handle scheduling conflicts?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Looks like he was going to play "Sentry" and be the villain of the film.

I wonder if the character has been rewritten.

For example it was originally pitched as a one off villain, but now they want it to be a more reoccurring role. Yeun may not be interested in taking on that level of scheduling challenges.

I do agree that it's interesting to look at, but the reasoning here seems plausible.