Thunderbolts* The director Jake Schreier explains [Spoiler]death and because it was added late in the process

The latest film Marvel, Thunderbolts*He made his debut in the last weekend and the fans are really happy with how he ended up. It was a solid and autonomous story, which lent to the future of the broader picture of the MCU.

Some compared it with the suicide of the DC, since the team was made up of killers, waste and those who generally blurred the lines between good boy and bad in the past. So many hypothesized that this film would have a lot of bloodshed, and perhaps some of our heroes would not have come out alive.

This turned out to be true only for a team member and, if you haven’t seen the film yet, here is your warning to stop.

Director Jake Schreier Open on the decision to eliminate the character Antonia Dreykov aka Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), the tragic badly controlled by the mind by Black widow At the beginning of the film.

The character was in every Thunderbolts* Trailer and posters, apparently propagated as one of the team members. But in his first scene in the film, he shot without many ceremonies in his head by Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), who was only by fulfilling his latest contract by Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis -drefus), unaware that it was all a stratagem to get it, Taskmaster, American agent (Wyatt Russell) and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) to kill each other, thus deleting all the evidence of the illegal shadow operations of Val and the free of any offense for his process in progress.

While Yelena understood the scheme in time to save herself and the others, it was too late for Taskmaster. Unfortunately he does not live long enough to find the redemption or become one of the new members of the Avengers team and, apparently, his death has been added to the last minute script, according to the director.

Schreier said to EW: “Leaving the strike, we were about to shoot, and we closed ourselves, and he gave us some time to take a step back from the film. And when we all returned to the room, once the strike was finished, and we were thinking about how to improve it, it really seemed that the film seemed only a little without blood.”

While Thunderbolts* It would never have been classified by R, Schreier still wanted to hear it as if any of the characters could die at any time, especially considering that these are all killers and ex (perhaps still current?) Bad.

Schreier added: “For whom these characters are, he should live up to those films that have attention to them, in which you don’t really know who will survive. I know that it is complicated in the era of today when things will come out before the films, but in the context of the film, it seemed that we had to swing in this way so that you really didn’t know who really did it, and also that it had been clear that it could have been one of them.

The speed with which the taskmaster is killed in the film was also of design to make it as shocking as possible for the spectators, which was certainly reached.

“The decision to do it when we did it, we crossed many different versions, and we thought of it very carefully,” explains the director. “And it seemed, while it would have been very beautiful – and Olga is a wonderful actress – to have it in the team longer, that death would have been much more hard more hard and made it more difficult to find our tonal balance if it had happened later in the film.”

He continues, “and would have occupied such a more emotional type of space that would have trampled on what we really need to build. And we have so few narrative properties to do it, that it is the connection between Yelena and Bob [Lewis Pullman]And the film will really depend. And so to maintain our tone and build that team together, it actually felt better, even if it seems a bit in cold blood, to have what happens soon “.

The director also wanted to clarify that, despite their powers and their skills, none of these characters is unjustifiable. “I think it’s nice to give the public a reminder,” he says.

While it seems that Taskmaster’s death has no immediate consequences, Schreier claims that he has a greater impact by guiding the rest of the story forward.

“As Yelena says later in the film,” he had a difficult life. He killed many people, and then he was killed, just like us one day, “he says.” And I think his character survives in the film in the way they think, and what they did and what it means to be only a little around doing what he has been commissioned to do, ordered to do and in this type of darker isolated. “

Marvel does not kill very often, but the director says that there was no rejection of the comic giant on the killing of Taskmaster so soon in the film.

This is an interesting perspective by the director. We saw the film last Thursday and my son says he believes that the taskmaster is still alive. I don’t think, but everything is possible in Marvel, especially when the multiverse is at stake. I was upset not to see her more in history, but I liked what the Thunderbolts* offered us and I can’t wait to see them return to the day of judgment.