Top Gun: Maverick‘s Lewis Pullman is in early talks to replace Steven Yeun in Marvel’s Thunderbolts.
A casting casualty of 2023’s Hollywood strikes, it was announced earlier this year that the Emmy Award winning Beef actor was no longer available to star in the Marvel ensemble film, where he was reportedly set to to play Sentry, one of the MCU’s most powerful heroes.
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According to Deadline Marvel has turned to Lessons in Chemistry‘s Lewis Pullman to fill the void left by Yeun, to join a cast that includes 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, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, and Harrison Ford as Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross.
Directed by Jake Schreier (Paper Towns) and written by Eric Pearson (Black Widow), little is known about the plot of Thunderbolts aside from the fact it will follow a group of villains-turned-heroes sent on missions commissioned by the government.
As well as being part of Top Gun: Maverick‘s $1.5 billion box-office journey back in 2022, Pullman also has the headline role in Warner Bros.’ Salem’s Lot remake sat on a studio shelf somewhere.
Thunderbolts is set for release on July 25th 2025.
