Last month, Beef showrunner Lee Sung Jin was hired by Marvel to work on Eric Pearson’s screenplay for Thunderbolts alongside director Jake Schreier, who had also worked on Beef with Jin. In a new episode of The Hot Mic, insider Jeff Sneider reveals that Jin has been tasked to rewrite the whole screenplay due to some balancing issues.
According to Sneider, the original screenplay had a similar problem to David Ayer’s version of Suicide Squad; there wasn’t enough balance between the team members’ development. Instead, “it was too focused on the Black Widow characters who will be in Thunderbolts,” giving more development to established characters than to newer ones.
With Lee Sung Jin’s involvement, the focus will be pulled to the rest of the cast, helping add to the grand scope of Schreier’s project. In a Beef press release with Variety. Jin admits that he should have taken a break between films to recuperate, “but there’s a lot of themes and exciting things about the movie that [he] couldn’t help but sign on.” By following Schreier’s lead, Jin plans to embrace Marvel’s grandiosity in his work on the film while still maintaining the same bond the two of them had on the Beef set. “I think once you find the squad of people you love and trust and are so talented, you do everything you can to keep working with them,” Jin says.
Thunderbolts is set to hit theaters on July 26, 2024.
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