Steven Yeun Drops Out of Marvel’s Thunderbolts

With Hollywood shutting down during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, many productions were delayed, including Marvel's Thunderbolts.

The film will follow a group of supervillains recruited to go on missions for the government and was originally slated for a July 2024 release but will now not hit theaters until July 2025.

Thunderbolts has a star-studded cast including Florence Pugh, Harrison Ford, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Olga Kurylenko, Ayo Edebiri and Sebastian Stan.

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Steven Yeun was also set to join them, but The Hollywood Reporter has now revealed that the star will no longer be suiting up to join the gang.

The exact reason is unknown, but with the delays, scheduling conflicts are likely the cause.

Yeun has been stacking credits since his performance as Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead. He has since appeared in films such as Minari, for which he scored his first Oscar nomination, as well as Bong Joon Ho's Okja and Jordan Peele's Nope. Yeun also starred in the 2023 Netflix Mini-Series Beef, receiving two Emmy nominations for his role as Danny Cho and his work as an executive producer.