The American agent was originally the main villain of Thunderbolts*, the writer of the film breaks down the change

Before Thunderbolts* He gave us the tragic clash of power with the sentinel and his monstrous alter ego the void, the big villain of the film should have been someone more familiar and much more rooted in the MCU with John Walker, aka Us Agent.

In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Thunderbolts* screenwriter Eric Pearson Opened the first drafts of the script and revealed a very different third act. Initially, the plan was to push Walker, who was last seen for the work with Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, in a bad territory in full wind. Pearson explained:

“The original drafts of this had John Walker as a bad fist at the end. The idea was that part of Val’s manipulation was that he had told him that his serum was fading and was doing these drugs to make him go on.

“In reality, it was a time bomb; one thing about Hulk. There would have been a bit of a moment” Sun is becoming a very low moment “because since the beginning of this, it has been as” I want to end our third fight with a hug. “

Yes, that struggle ends with a hug, just like in the film that was released, so that emotional plot was cooked from the beginning, but Pearson soon understood that he got stuck in the emotional complexity of Sentinel“Superman” deeply imperfect of Marvel, he offered deeper than a simple fight with Walker.

“That version was a little fun, but in the end it did not work and I didn’t feel well in terms of tone. I had already stratified throughout the breakfast club, so I was like, ‘I want someone to whom they cannot beat in a struggle for a fist and they have to connect emotionally.'”

Insert Bob Reynolds Aka Sentry. Pearson, who participated in the Marvel Writers program over a decade ago, was remembered that he had been affected by the dichotomy of comics between divine heroism and self -paralying.

He saw the potential in building the climax of the film around that internal struggle. He said:

“But returning to the Marvel Writers program that I did in 2010 or 2011, I would have read the Sentry comics. In the comics, it is like the golden god of the good against pure evil. But I was like” and if it were the heroic ambition and self -esteem against self -absorption and depression and solitude? ”

“Basically it is the entire journey to our heroes who launched himself in a single entity. So, I put it inside and adapted so perfectly. Then it was a question of finding and defining the empty space and things like that.”

That turn gave the film a new still emotional. The sentinel became less a “bad” and more a tragic mirror, reflecting the fractured state of each member of the team.

Pearson then spoke of the comic book plot and how the sentinel from the golden age existed and that the character canceled the memory of everyone. Haparato the way it was a “funny idea of ​​comics that will not be translated very well in this film”.

Instead, the film drawn from the fundamental themes of duality and broken identity:

“We have overcome the loss of memory, the duality of his character and the fact that it was an experiment that went wrong. You want to take the same to honor the comics and then insert it in the world of cinema in the best way.”

As for John Walker, his comic book has always danced among hero, anti-hero and fully antagonist. While it would have been intertwined to see him manipulated in a Val Clockwork Bomb, especially if that arch ended with a cathartic group embrace, it is clear that the creative team found something more significant in the inner war of the sentinel.

In the end, does Walker live to fight another day and the void? This is a battle with which the MCU is far from finishing, especially with Avengers: Doomsday on the horizon.

Would you have liked to see Walker like the big villain? Or he did Thunderbolts* Attaching the landing with Bob’s emotional punch?