Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’ Filming Delayed By Writer’s Strike

The WGA writers’ strike continues to be going, and at this level, it’s starting to have an effect on the beginning of many alternative Hollywood productions. At Marvel, it already brought on a delay within the capturing of Blade, and now an identical pause has been positioned on Thunderbolts.

The writers energetic within the strike are demanding higher pay, higher working situations, and protections from being changed or having their roles decreased by A.I. writing instruments like ChatGPT, amongst others. As of this writing, their calls for haven’t been met and the strike exhibits no signal of slowing down.

Thunderbolts is about to star Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Florence Pugh as Black Widow, David Harbour as Red Guardian, and Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster. It follows a group of reformed villains who group up to work for the federal government. The movie has been within the works since at the least 2022. Eric Pearson was initially introduced in to jot down the preliminary screenplay, however Lee Sung Jin joined the trouble again in March of 2023. But because of the writers’ strike, no further work can presently be finished on the script.

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This isn’t only a Marvel drawback both. Of course, the strike spans the entire trade, together with Marvel’s opponents at DC. In truth, throughout a graduation speech at a college in Boston, chants broke out as Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav was talking. A complete room of scholars joined in, shouting “Pay your writers!”

It’s unlikely this whole thing will get solved any time soon, but we’d love to be mistaken about that. Thunderbolts is currently scheduled to open in theaters on July 26, 2024.