Thunderbolts* The screenwriter was shocked by the fact that his big bow for Taskmaster was cut by the film

In a move that even surprised the boy who wrote a draft of the script, Marvel Thunderbolts* I assign a large plot of the taskmaster and screenwriter Eric Pearson I only found out how fans did: watching the movie.

Pearson, who also wrote Black widowHe had no idea that the Taskmaster arch was gutted until he saw an early cut of the film, Pearson said to Polygon:

“It was decided after my job. When I sat down to look at the first cut, one thing was totally different and shocked me, and it was that. Everything else, I was like ‘yes, this is the film I wrote!’ But that decision … “

In the final film, Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), the brain washing killer introduced in Black widowHe is abruptly killed at the beginning … shot in the head by Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) during the notorious time sequence.

It is a moment that has been clearly designed for the shock value, but he also left some fans to scratch his head. It turns out that they were not alone.

Initially, Taskmaster was not just another body to fall. Pearson revealed that he had “a rather large subtrama” in his draft, which in reality gave her and the ghost an emotional line line.

He explained: “As people who had grown up in the workshops and had been controlled in that way”, the two should have formed a bond.

“And Ava, having won his autonomy at the beginning of the chronology of Taskmaster, was a bit the great half -sister, in a way to” how to get rid of and be your person “.”

There was even a comic turning point. Taskmaster, still struggling with the loss of memory from her past trauma, would have repeatedly forgotten that she and Ghost were no longer enemies.

“There was a gag in which he continued to restart the struggle and forgetting that they had invented and becoming friends. They would discuss the plan on how to go out [of the vault]And she followed him again, and everyone should have made a pig on each other, eliminate it and be like, ‘no, we know each other! We have already had this conversation! ‘”

Director Jake Schreier He turned to change in a previous interview, saying that it was about injecting uncertainty into history.

“Obviously, it’s a great decision. We felt like a film like this needed something like that, in which you are like, ‘Okay, if they do, they could do anything,’ you know, and you don’t really know where it will go. He needed a little shock or surprise.”

Of course, the shock was there. But now that we know what has remained on the floor of the cutting room, a strata sub -tray, fun and redeemed for two of the most tragic figures of the MCU. It is difficult not to wonder what Thunderbolts* He could have been if Marvel had let that story go.

Would you have preferred the original Taskmaster-Ghost plot?