Steven Yeun to join Marvel’s Thunderbolts

Yeun has been solid in a “significant” position in Thunderbolts, and will play a bigger, expanded half in future initiatives within the MCU, in keeping with Deadline.

Thunderbolts is scheduled to start out filming in mid-2023 and might be launched in July, 2024.

The particulars of the plot are being saved beneath wraps but when the story is to resemble its comedian origins, it would centre on a bunch of anti-heroes who’re despatched on authorities missions.

Last 12 months, Marvel confirmed the film will characteristic a raft of characters who’ve appeared in earlier MCU titles, together with Black Widow and Hawkeye’s Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Captain America’s Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ant-Man’s Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Falcon and Winter Soldier’s John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Black Widow’s Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who has popped up in Black Widow, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Falcon and Winter Soldier, is predicted to be central to the movie, because the morally gray Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. The character was most not too long ago revealed to be the brand new director of the CIA and ex-wife to Martin Freeman’s character Everett Ok. Ross.

Harrison Ford has additionally been confirmed to be within the movie, taking on the position of Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross from the late William Hurt. Ford will make his debut in an earlier film, Captain America: New World Order.

The film might be directed by Jake Schreier (Paper Towns) and Eric Pearson wrote the screenplay (Black Widow). Thunderbolts is to be the thirty fifth film within the MCU and the ultimate movie of “phase five”.

Yeun is finest recognized for his 66-episode arc on The Walking Dead, because the doomed Glenn. On TV, he has additionally finished loads of voice roles in animated initiatives together with Invincible, Tuca & Bertie, Final Space, Voltron: Legendary Defender and Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia.

But it’s on the massive display the place he has been constructing momentum.

He was nominated for a Lead Actor Oscar for his stirring efficiency in Minari, a narrative a couple of Korean-American immigrant household in Middle America, and has had memorable roles in acclaimed movies Nope, Sorry to Bother You, Okja, The Humans and Burning.

Next up, Yeun might be in Netflix dramedy Beef, which co-stars Ali Wong, and he’s manufacturing on sci-fi thriller film Mickey 17, reuniting along with his Okja director, Oscar winner and Parasite filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.