Steven Yeun Joins Cast Of Marvel's Thunderbolts In Major Role - Report

Deadline is reporting that Oscar-nominated actor and Walking Dead alumni Steven Yeun has been cast in Marvel's Thunderbolts in an unrevealed part. The part apparently is not only significant to this film but could also a huge role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole, going forward.

After departing AMC's The Walking Dead, Yeun has been working almost non-stop in such films as last year's Jordan Peele-directed alien invasion movie Nope, and providing voicework for Netflix's Voltron series as well as its Trollhunters series. In 2021, he became the first Asian American actor ever to be nominated for best actor for the Academy Awards for his work in Minari.

Yeun joins Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Wyatt Russell as US Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, and Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster. Ayo Edebiri also joined the cast in an undisclosed role. All aside from Edebiri, the rest of the cast have been featured before in other Marvel productions, usually as the lead villain.

Director Jake Schreier will helm the anti-hero team film with Black Widow writer Eric Pearson handling the script. Not much is known about the plot of the film, but the Thunderbolts have been around for almost 30 years at Marvel Comics and are seen as its answer to DC's Suicide Squad as a team of black-ops baddies hired by the government to get their hands dirty.

This is not Yeun's first foray into comic book adaptations. Beyond The Walking Dead, he also provides the voice of the titular character of Prime Video's Invincible series, based on the comic by Robert Kirkman (co-creator of TWD) and Corey Walker.

Marvel's Thunderbolts is scheduled to hit theaters on July 26, 2024.