{"id":132104,"date":"2024-01-03T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=132104"},"modified":"2024-01-04T08:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T08:28:43","slug":"steven-yeun-will-not-be-starring-in-marvels-thunderbolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/steven-yeun-will-not-be-starring-in-marvels-thunderbolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Yeun will not be starring in Marvel&#8217;s Thunderbolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/steven-yeun-will-not-star-marvel-thunderbolts-1235777860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Steven Yeun will not be starring in Marvel&#8217;s anti-hero movie, <em><strong>Thunderbolts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like many upcoming movies, <em><strong>Thunderbolts<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; release date has been pushed due to last year&#8217;s strikes &#8211; moving from July 2024 to July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Though Yeun was never officially announced to star in the movie, <em><strong>The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>actor did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/steven-yeun-marvel-thunderbolts-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speak to Empire magazine<\/a> back in 2023 about the role, saying that the &#8220;intentions of the particular character that they wanted me to play were very clear, and that\u2019s what drew me to the film\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Set to be directed by Jake Schreier,<strong><em> Thunderbolts <\/em><\/strong>follows a team of anti-heroes which, in the comic books, includes the likes of Bucky Barnes and the Red Guardian. Confirmed stars so far for the movie include David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko and Florence Pugh.<\/p>\n<p>Yeun is no stranger to comic books adaptations, voicing the role of Mark Grayson in Prime Video&#8217;s superhero animation\u00a0<em><strong>Invincible<\/strong><\/em>, created by <em><strong>The Walking Dead&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> Robert Kirkman. Last year he starred alongside Ali Wong in Netflix series <em><strong>Beef<\/strong><\/em>, which is slated to be nominated for a slew of awards this year (he&#8217;s already been nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in the series).<\/p>\n<p>This year, Yeun will star in Bong Joon Ho&#8217;s <em><strong>Parasite<\/strong><\/em> follow-up, <em><strong>Mickey 17, <\/strong><\/em>which also stars Robert Pattinson Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collette, based on the book <em><strong>Mickey7<\/strong><\/em> by Edward Ashton (read our review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/books\/mickey7-review-suicide-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Find more news, reviews and exclusive interviews at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Yeun will not star Marvel&#8217;s Thunderbolts, set to be released in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":132107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,2615,3],"tags":[113,7850,7849],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Thunderbolts.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132108,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132104\/revisions\/132108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}