Sebastian Stan Says the Final Draft of THUNDERBOLTS* Is Much Better Than the Original Script
Marvel actor Sebastian Stan has been vocal about his support of the superhero movie company, and the promise of what’s coming in the next phases.
That includes his return to the MCU with the movie Thunderbolts*, which will see Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Lewis Pullman as The Sentry, and Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, as well Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Wyatt Russell as John Walker, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as as CIA director Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
It was revealed that the movie had a major rewrite to its script early on in the process, and during Stan’s recent appearance on Happy Sad Confused, host Josh Horowitz asked if it was “fair to say” that there’s “a much different version that we’ll never see of Thunderbolts*,” and the actor responded:
“There were a couple iterations from what I've heard. There was a script that we had before the strike and then the one we ended up with. And I do feel like we ended up in a better spot. 100%.
“I love working with Jake Schreier, I feel like what he brought to this movie is a whole other tone I think we haven't quite seen yet. It's funny, but it's also real, and it just has the right balance of everything.
“I love working with him. And I think we only discovered that by them actually having more time to work on it, which wouldn't have happened if we went a year ago.”
While the strikes negatively impacted a lot of Hollywood projects, Stan believes the delay in getting cameras rolling on Thunderbolts* was actually beneficial since it allowed the team to arrive on the product that audiences will see on the big screen next year.
The writers of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things echoed that sentiment, saying the time they were allowed to take fine-tuning of the final season was also beneficial to them.
Thunderbolts* is currently set to be released in theaters on May 2, 2025.
via: CinemaBlend