When Thunderbolts* Bring the sentry to the screen, fans who are familiar with comics may have noticed a big difference. The story does not depend on the world forgetting that it has ever existed, but that’s not how it took place in the film, and the reason for the change comes directly from Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Director Jake SchreierIn an interview with Marvel.com, he opened on the creative round, saying: “Obviously, we could not tell the same story because of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Thanks, Jon”, joked, giving a friendly jab to the colleague director Jon Watts.
So, once Peter Parker used the speaker of Doctor Strange to erase his existence from everyone’s memory, Marvel did not want to revisit the same idea so early.
In the comics, Robert Reynolds aka La Sentry is such a powerful and dangerous superhero that he had to cancel himself from the memory of the world to contain the void, the dark force that lives within him. But with No way home beating them with that punch of mental wipe, Thunderbolts* I had to travel a different path.
Schreier and actor Lewis Pullmanwho plays Bob Reynolds, instead he chose to immerse himself more deeply in the psychology of the character without relying on the amnesia. Schreier said:
“It is an interesting reading that race. When we talked to Paul Jenkins, he would talk about it as a parable for mental health and this idea of an equal amount of good and evil.
“But when I read Sentry in those comics, there is this level of arrogance he has, and it seems that the people around him worry a little. I thought it was so resonant.”
Pullman expanded on that internal complexity, saying:
“We wanted to make sure that it was not so compartmentalized, that it was always clear that he was a person. It has never been this change of code, or this type of giglio pad, who launched himself to a completely different person. They are all qualities and parts of a person.”
While Marvel has not officially confirmed what is the next for the sentinel, it presents itself to Vendictors: Doomsday next year, and Bob’s presence will certainly be a huge resource and a potential catastrophe, which is exactly the type of tension on which the prosperous character.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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