Steven Yeun Officially Departs Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS

Steven Yeun Officially Departs Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS

Confirming a rumor that did the rounds earlier tonight, the trades have revealed that Steven Yeun will no longer star in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts movie...

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By MarkCassidy - Jan 02, 2024 09:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts

We now have confirmation that Steven Yeun will no longer appear in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts.

A rumor did the rounds that The Walking Dead alum stepped away from the upcoming Phase 5 film earlier today, and THR has now weighed in, making his departure official.

The trade doesn't delve into Yeun's reasons, but the social media post indicates that the movie recently being pushed back from December 20, 2024, to July 25, 2025 resulted in a scheduling conflict.

THR doesn't mention the character Yeun was going to play, but The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Kirkman recently came right out and said: "My good friend Steven Yeun is playing the Sentry in a movie."

“Yeah, he called me, he went in for a costume fitting. I hope I’m not… I don’t think this is a spoiler or anything that will get anybody in trouble. I don’t know, maybe. We’ll see. I don’t care. I don’t work for Marvel. What are they going to do to me? He called me and he said, 'I just came back from a costume fitting for the Sentry. I guess I only do superheroes that are yellow and blue.' He said he was at the costume fitting and was like, 'Aww, crap. I forgot Invincible was yellow and blue.'"

Marvel will now begin the search for a new Sentry, and there's already some speculation that Ryan Gosling may be in line to step into the role.

According to Daniel Richtman, filming is currently scheduled to begin in March, and casting is currently underway for "a high-tech militia group that the Thunderbolts are going to fight in the film."

Though other characters might well be added, the Thunderbolts roster currently consists of Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), John Walker/U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).

Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine will put the team together, and may also be partially responsible for Sentry's creation. Harrison Ford will replace the late William Hurt as Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, who may wind up transforming into the Red Hulk.

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Bottoms) has reportedly been cast as a character named Erin, who is Valentina Allegra de Fontaine's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) assistant. Erin is said to be "exceptional at her job, even surprising Val with how good she is at getting things done."

Jake Schreier (Robot and Frank, Dave) is set to direct, with Black Widow scribe Eric Pearson penning the script.

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CaptainMexico
CaptainMexico - 1/2/2024, 9:07 PM
This casting was terrible anyway.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/2/2024, 9:51 PM
@CaptainMexico - how could he have departed if it was never confirmed in the first place lol. When they "broke news" months ago, that's when they parted ways lol
Jarvisjackrabbit
Jarvisjackrabbit - 1/2/2024, 10:20 PM
@CaptainMexico - His departure really leaves a Void…
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 1/2/2024, 11:27 PM
@CaptainMexico - thank god. This casting was totally beneath him. Now he’s free to work on better projects.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 1/3/2024, 11:04 AM
@TheNewYorker - he wasn't never casted
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 1/3/2024, 11:44 AM
@RegularPoochie - cool.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/2/2024, 9:08 PM
Great actor. bad for the role.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 1/2/2024, 10:07 PM
@McMurdo - I'm guessing Kirkman wanted him to play Invincible, and let this tidbit "slip":
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 1/2/2024, 11:00 PM
@McMurdo -


I'm wondering if feige told him to step down as part of the course correcting 😅
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/2/2024, 9:10 PM
They can do better with the casting. Fit wise.
TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 1/2/2024, 9:10 PM
Great actor, but I am happy about this news. Bad casting.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 1/2/2024, 9:11 PM
Big loss, I wanted to see what he did in the role.
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/2/2024, 9:11 PM
Should have been cast as Radioactive Man, an actual Asian character that is on the Thunderbolts team.

Now let's get the casting right.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/3/2024, 3:22 AM
@marvel72 -

There was nothing wrong with the casting.
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/3/2024, 5:33 AM
@Toonstrack - If you are blind or never seen the character before.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/3/2024, 7:41 PM
@marvel72 - most who will he watching this haven't.

Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/4/2024, 8:18 AM
@Toonstrack - and then they go and look up the character afterwards and think, Wtf?
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/4/2024, 3:07 PM
@Ryguy88 - yeah that's totally what happened with star lord and namor and nick fury and hiemdall right?
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/4/2024, 3:52 PM
@Toonstrack - Namor was trash. Heimdal was a very small part. Star Lord looks pretty much like he does in the books. Sam Jackson was originally good enough in the role to transcend the comics, which is rare.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/4/2024, 9:24 PM
@Ryguy88 - namor was awesome.

Hiemdall was a very prominent part of the Thor movies and sentry is likely a very small part of this movie.

Star lord looks absorbent nothing like he looked before 2014, and his personality was entirely changed

Sam Jackson was good enough because not every character needs to eh adapted perfectly. Like star lord.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/5/2024, 8:12 AM
@Toonstrack - heimdall was not a big part in thor 1 and 2 at all. In 3 he got a little more. Still doesnt make sense to have nordic gods not look nordic.

And Namor was still shit. The guy couldnt even lift some weights for the role.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/5/2024, 1:00 PM
@Ryguy88 - namor was awesome, the dude didn't need to lift weights, he played the role perfectly and was closer to comic nsmor than star lord is to comic star lord. Cope.

Heimdall isn't a Nordic God in the mcu. Hes an alien from another planet. The Nordics were the ones worshipping him genius.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/5/2024, 2:54 PM
@Toonstrack - when did they say they were aliens? That's pretty [frick]ing contrived if they did. And hows does that explain the rainbow bridge and the 9 realms?

And I dont need to cope, you're the one all upset because people dont like a lot of these casting choices.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/6/2024, 3:05 AM
@Ryguy88 - they're aliens as in they live on an alien world lmfao. Odin straight up said to loki they arent gods. They are only gods to the ancient peoples.

The rainbow Bridge is just a long term transportation device. You can fly to aboard also.

You're already coping. You and several others. This is going to continue to happen because most don't actually care.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/6/2024, 1:05 PM
@Toonstrack - that was a contrived explanation for the movies only that doesnt make sense when you try to apply any logic to it. It doesnt explain the 9 realms and doesnt explain the existence of other pantheons. I dont remember which movie it was but I'm guessing it was Taika.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/6/2024, 1:08 PM
@Toonstrack - doesnt explain how their planet is flat if it's supposed to exist in the physical universe. Doesnt explain how they get their powers or how their civilization functions. Its dumb and you probably think so too.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/6/2024, 6:31 PM
@Ryguy88 - their powers come from magic and other cosmic sources.

Their world being flat has nothing to do with anything.

It wss not mentioned in a taika film it in Thor the dark world.

Thor has pulled mjolnir directly from asgard before and vice versa. They arent in another dimension lol.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/6/2024, 8:10 PM
@Toonstrack - magic and cosmic sources. I.e. we dont have the creativity to explain our way out of this.

Their world being flat and stacked among the other realms could make sense if they are in a different plane of existence. But as you know, large celestial bodies are not flat.

It's all very contrived. If they are giving Zeus a Greek acdent why not Just make the norse gods nordic?
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/10/2024, 7:15 PM
@Ryguy88 - they don't have to explain magic. Its magic. No one else struggles with this.

Its not f***ing real. This universe has a large celestial body that is a giant floating head lmao.

Yes its contrived. Just like Greek mythology and comic books are.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2024, 8:36 PM
@Toonstrack - they changed it to magic because they dont want to call them gods, thats why its contrived!

There would be nothing wrong if they made the Norse gods all look Norse just like they make the Greek gods Greek and the Egyptian gods Egyptian. Why is this a problem?
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/12/2024, 3:18 PM
@Ryguy88 - no, the gods always used magic in the comics lol.

The Greek gods didn't all look like Greeks even in Greek mythology, not any well known adaptation lmao.

The Egyptian gods have been historically played by white actors more times than anything. Even the Hercules movie had the muses be black.

You aren't making a point you're proving mine.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/13/2024, 8:43 AM
@Toonstrack - using magic is not the same as having powers of a god.

Greek gods do look Greek. Go look up and statue from the classical Greek era.

Egyptians shouldnt be depicted as white or black.

What is your point?
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/14/2024, 7:02 PM
@Ryguy88 - that depends on the God, and it also has nothing to do with what I've been saying.

Medusa doesn't look greek. Hades in most depictions doesn't look like a regular Greek. The Greek statues dont have colors either, and their statues dont even look like normal people. They are idealized.

Egyptian gods aren't Egyptians. Most of them are half animals. Most worshippers understood they didnt look like any humans.

Missing the point again and again.

The gods can look like however the artists wants them to look. There is no rule anywhere in history or in fiction saying they have to look like the society that worshipped them. Thsts a rule you made up and its wholly arbitrary and doesn't even apply to the actual pantheons in real life.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/14/2024, 7:48 PM
@Toonstrack - of course statues of Greek gods look Greek. Even depictions of medusa is of a Greek looking women with snakes for hair. Any full serpent monsters are more modern renditions.

And why would I say that the animal Egyptian gods look Egyptian? Obviously I was referring to the human-like gods like Osiris, Horus.

Do you even have any idea what you're talking about at this point?

Maybe go take a crash course and come back to me.

And I'm not saying there is a rule, I'm saying these multicultural adaptions of gods that were based on single culture civilizations is [frick]ing stupid.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/15/2024, 4:21 PM
@Ryguy88 - how do they look Greek? Their faces barely look like real humans. Generic pretty boy faces. Theres no ethnicity to be derived from them at all.

Osiris and horus have many forms, horus often appears as a falcon rather than a human.

Those cultures weren't singular either.

The Egyptians traded and did business with countless other nations. The nose gods were travelers and journeyed and took on stowaway from hundreds of lands. They like all human cultures adapted to their environment.it is YOU who needs a crash course because rhe entire basis for your argument is nonsensical. If you really think the norse did not know that dark skinned people existed, and believed that all their gods looked the same as them you are woefully mistaken.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/15/2024, 8:54 PM
@Toonstrack -"If you really think the norse did not know that dark skinned people existed..."

how does that prove anything? Did people in sub saharan africa worship Norse gods? NO!

And just because cultures traded with other cultures does not make them the same culture.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/15/2024, 8:57 PM
@Toonstrack - "Osiris and horus have many forms, horus often appears as a falcon rather than a human."

Key word there is human form. The rest is irrelevant when I specifically said they had human depictions.


Why dont you distill your point for me now.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/15/2024, 10:07 PM
@Ryguy88 - i made the point a while ago

The notion that human depictions of rhe gods have to look like the culture that worships them is made up by you, and no one else. It not only makes no sense as the gods are theoretically millennia in age and can see all people of the world, but most of them can change their appearance at will and csn lookk however they want.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/16/2024, 9:51 AM
@Toonstrack - the cultures that worship these gods made them ul and therefor depicted them to like like themselves.

If you have proof to the contrary, out with it.

Ancient civilizations do not need to look like modern day new york city.

The concept of multiculturalism has become an idealology in and of itself to people like you and you think that yours should supercede these ancient ones.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 1/16/2024, 1:03 PM
@Ryguy88 - these adaptations of the gods are not about the cultures that made them, they are treating the gods as real so thats a moot point .

We have zero obligation to respect the depiction of ancient cultures with regards to their gods in any way shape or form because these aren't those same versions. And even if they were, those cultures themselves didn't depict them looking just like them and thats been proven to you already. Thengods were not considered peers or on human levels they were a higher class.

Ours DOES supercede these ancient ones when it comes to our entertainment, because we're the ones making it now, not them. This is OUR fiction using some of their pantheon. Dont clutch pearls about it now that there are not white people involved, thats always what it has been. If you're going to feign beig a purist about the original cultures you should at least know what your talking about when you didn't even know what hours looked like.
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