Bucky Barnes

Image: AMCWhat you’ve heard is true: The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun is no longer in the cast for Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts movie.'We’re Gonna Drop a Bomb' | David Harbour on ThunderboltsThe un-casting was officially confirmed via the Hollywood Reporter. Though an official reason wasn’t given, it’s worth pointing out that Thunderbolts had been heavily impacted by the Hollywood strikes from last year, and was in fact originally meant to come out this upcoming July. Eventually, things got to the point where…

Image: Marvel StudiosToday marks the season two finale for Marvel’s What If...?. I haven’t watched it yet, but by several accounts, it sounds like this has been a pretty solid season with a standout episode that focuses on the Mohawk woman Kahhori. Ahead of this season’s premiere, Marvel Studios revealed a third season was in the works, and it doesn’t sound like they’ll be wasting any time in getting it out the gate.io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac Was 'All In' on Moon KnightBefore the finale dropped, a clip for What If...?’s…

Image: Marvel | Disney+A few weeks ago, Anthony Mackie got the passcode to read the upcoming script for Captain America: New World Order. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Mackie describes procedures for reading Marvel scripts, which seem to require about the same security clearance as nuclear code access. “We literally get a passcode to a website that gives us a location,” he explained. The actors then go “to meet the person to sign, to sit with a computer, and read our script.”It seems like literally…

Val talking to US Agent on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.Image: Marvel StudiosThe first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe had Nick Fury. The next three, at least, have Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine. Played by seven-time Emmy award-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the shady character has popped up several times so far, and in her upcoming Marvel movie, Thunderbolts, the Seinfeld and Veep star wants to take things up a notch. She wants to hit somebody.“I actually pitched it,” Louis-Dreyfus told…

ONE HOUR DANCING ZEMO | Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and The Winter Soldier | Disney+It is a crime that Daniel Bruhl’s Zemo, one of, if not the, most fascinating villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe isn’t part of the Thunderbolts, especially when Bucky Barnes somehow is. In the comics, Zemo formed the Thunderbolts out of his Masters of Evil to gain access to SHIELD and various tech. Admittedly, in the comics, Zemo has been a Nazi shithead for most of his career as well, and the MCU’s Zemo is neither of those things.…

Image: Marvel StudiosMarvel’s D23 presentation yesterday gave us our first look at what appears to be the full team headlining 2024's Thunderbolts film. Though it sports previous MCU antagonists like Ghost from Ant-Man & the Wasp and Black Widow’s Taskmaster, it’s not exactly what you’d call “villainous”: from Falcon & Winter Soldier’s US Agent to Yelena Belova and Bucky Barnes, most of the roster are people who’ve been manipulated by the government of their country, and Ghost only turned to villainy to not die.…

Image: Humberto Ramos/Marvel ComicsOn August 1, 1962, Marvel Comics’ Amazing Fantasy #15 by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee debuted, and with it, Spider-Man.The Marvel hero was a notable introduction back then, just on the simple basis of him being a teenager who wasn’t the sidekick of an already established hero. While that sounds like a small change in the grand scheme of things, it meant that unlike fellow contemporaries Dick Grayson or Bucky Barnes, Peter Parker had to learn the ropes of heroism without an older man to look…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosA new investigation from the Hollywood Reporter has uncovered the kind of compensation that character creators are receiving from Marvel, and the figures are staggeringly low—with the co-creator of Black Widow’s breakout character Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh, serving as just one example.Citing the legalese hidden in the fine print of the “Special Character Contracts” that writers and artists sign when creating a new character for Marvel, the trade notes that “When she co-created…

The Thunderbolts are coming.Image: Jon Malin/Marvel ComicsThe future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just got a little clearer and fans are probably going to be shocked. Marvel Studios is reportedly developing a movie based on the comic Thunderbolts and director Jake Schreier has been tapped to bring it to life. Deadline broke the news of the project and saysthat Eric Pearson (Black Widow) is writing what’s believed to be a supervillain team-up film, not unlike DC’s The Suicide Squad. And though the cast of characters…