While we still don’t know a whole lot about Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts film, it seems we have a very good idea who Steven Yeun will be playing. The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman has said Yeun will be playing The Sentry in the film.
- Yeun, who has starred in both The Walking Dead and Invincible, joined the cast of Thunderbolts back in February.
- It has been speculated for some time that the actor would be taking on the role of Robert Reynolds, better known by his superhero name of The Sentry.
- Kirkman, in an interview with comic book artist David Finch, confirmed that to be the case, saying “My good friend Steven Yeun is playing The Sentry in a movie. He called me and he said ‘I just came back from a costume fitting for The Sentry, I guess I only do superheroes that are yellow and blue.’”
- Yeun stars as the titular hero in Kirkman’s animated Invincible series on Amazon, in which his character dons a yellow and blue super suit.
- The Sentry is a very interesting and incredibly powerful character in Marvel Comics.
- He is said to have “the power of a million exploding suns” and has shown it by taking on some of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe.
- However, he is also incredibly unstable and the dark side of his powers becomes a being known as the Void, one of the most dangerous villains in the Marvel Universe.
- Sentry has been a member of the Avengers as well as Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers, which could be a tie to this team of Thunderbolts.
- Marvel has not yet confirmed Yeun’s role in the film.
- Yeun joins a cast that includes:
- Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
- Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier
- David Harbour as Red Guardian
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- Harrison Ford as “Thunderbolt” Ross
- Wyatt Russell as US Agent
- Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost
- Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster
About Thunderbolts:
- Not much is known about the plot of the film, but in the comics, it revolves around a group of villains who are sent on missions commissioned by the government.
- Lee Sung Jin, creator and showrunner of Netflix’s Beef, recently took over writing duties for the film.
- Thunderbolts is one of several Marvel films recently delayed and is currently slated to hit theaters on July 25th, 2025.