Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier opens up on Taskmaster’s Marvel Cinematic Universe demise. The MCU gender-flipped a basic Marvel supervillain for Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster, launched in Black Widow; however the character turned out to have a fairly quick lifespan, shockingly killed off in Thunderbolts*’s opening scenes.
To be honest, Taskmaster’s early demise was straightforward to see coming; attentive viewers swiftly noticed hints from the trailers that she was solely round within the first act. Nonetheless, there was to intense debate over whether or not her destiny was modified behind the scenes.
ScreenRant’s personal Joe Deckelmeier not too long ago sat down with director Jake Schreier to advertise the upcoming residence media launch for Thunderbolts*, the place the director acquired an opportunity to handle how Taskmaster’s demise took place. Reasonably than being a last-minute addition to reshoots, this was one thing that was labored on after the Hollywood strikes, as Schreier defined:
Jake Schreier: Simply to be clear, it isn’t a late add for reshoots. As soon as we got here out of the strike–and we hadn’t shot something earlier than the strike–we redeveloped the script for, I feel, 5 months. So it occurred then. So, it isn’t as if we shot a film after which modified it. It was within the capturing script. It is simply [that] there had been capturing scripts the place that did not occur.
I feel that, as we have been doing that growth, trying on the film that we had been about to make earlier than the strike, and making an attempt to make it even higher, we felt that the film felt slightly cold – a film about individuals who kill others for a residing and do not suppose something of it. To not have that represented or occur felt like we weren’t actually paying off what we have been saying about these characters.
Clearly, it is no small factor to eliminate a personality like that, that is vital to folks, and Olga [Kurylenko is] an exquisite actress. We simply felt – particularly provided that the group had been introduced – that we could not simply convey a brand new character into it after which off them, and that would not have fairly the importance of doing what we did. And we felt that there was worth in seeing the way in which they carry out their duties at present, after which additionally hoping that, for the viewers, it means, “Well, if they can do that, they could do anything.”
And [we felt there was] a sure stage of pressure that it delivered to the film going ahead, and likewise an emotional resonance. And while you see Ava and Yelena focus on that demise and what they’ve come to that they are simply doing issues like that to one another, and Yelena recognizing that that could possibly be any of them… to make that true, I feel you must truly take that step and do it. However I perceive that it is a factor to do and there are people who care about that character. It was not achieved calmly, is all that may say.
I feel that we felt like, with Taskmaster, there may be this slight relationship that Yelena has to her from Black Widow. They are not as immediately related, however there’s a connection, and [we felt] that will give it extra emotional resonance than if it have been anybody else that occurred within the movie.
Regardless that it was sudden, Schreier’s feedback make a whole lot of sense for Taskmaster, as this did add a stage of stakes to the MCU installment. Oddly sufficient, I am unable to assist pondering there is a sense by which Taskmaster’s demise served as an odd Thunderbolts* Easter egg, given the group is principally Marvel’s Suicide Squad – and never everybody makes it out alive.
To be honest, it will have been unusual if each member of the group made it to Thunderbolts* post-credits scenes alive. That may have made the Section 5 film really feel bereft of consequence, a typical criticism with some MCU movies and TV exhibits prior to now. Additionally it is a intelligent method to play with viewers expectations, particularly after closely advertising and marketing Taskmaster as one of many major gamers.
I am happy to listen to Schreier elaborate on Taskmaster’s destiny, as a result of it will have been somewhat disappointing to study a whole character’s destiny was determined by way of reshoots. The larger query, although, is whether or not there will probably be one other Taskmaster – or maybe even her daughter from the comics, Finesse, who would give this Thunderbolts* member a legacy.
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Thunderbolts*
8/10
Launch Date
Could 2, 2025
Runtime
127 minutes
Director
Jake Schreier
