Thunderbolts Was Once Going to Feature Yet Another Familiar Face

After memorable turns in Captain America: Civil War and Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Daniel Brühl’s Baron Zemo almost got the call for Marvel’s Thunderbolts. But it wasn’t meant to be for the character, who started out as a big bad but became more sympathetic the longer he hung around the MCU—which does sound kind of perfect for the misfit team-up movie. He also has quite a few ties to the Thunderbolts in the comics. Speaking to Screenrant, one of Thunderbolts‘ writers explained Baron Zemo was actually part of an early draft of the film, back to his villainous ways. “I think there was a version of a tag written a long time ago [where] it was revealed that Baron Zemo was pulling some strings from prison or whatever,” Eric Pearson explained, though he wasn’t 100% certain of the details. “I feel like there might’ve been a version where a tag where Zemo had broken out and swapped places with someone … [but] I think those ideas lived for one iteration and then died. ... Read full article.