Thunderbolts Director defends Shock Death: “It's a big decision”

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Thunderbolts* Director Jake Schreier defended Taskmaster's death and said that the recent episode of the MCU needed “a little shock”.

It is a death that most fans saw, since the character was largely absent in advertising materials, which now makes sense when it was killed in the first act of the film.

In the film, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine Taskmaster, Ghost, Yelena and US agent attracts a secret ox base and gives each of them a different goal to build them all to kill each other.

The only person who is successful in their mission is Ghost who shoots Taskmaster in the head.

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Discussion about the decision to kill Olga Kurylenko's character, said Schreier Games radar: “Obviously it is a big decision.

“We felt like a film like this, which needed something like that, where you are: 'Okay, if you do it, you could do everything,” you know, and you don't know exactly where the thing will go. It took a little shock or surprise. “

The filmmaker was asked about the fate of the TaskMaster, which was triggered by their absence of advertising material and the Avengers: Doomsday Cast announcement.

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“When we did it, we definitely ignored it all. I didn't read anything,” he said.

“I mean, I've read since then, and it's like, yes, there is a long lead time when I bring these films outside, and people will definitely have their theories in marketing, it's part of it.”

He continued: “But something my friend Jon Watts [Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy director] Told me who went through that and I think it might be a bit Kevin [Feige] Tell him that when you sit in the theater and the lights sink, all the stuff disappear, and you really want to try not to worry too much about what people will bring to the film and ensure that the stuff works at a story level. “

Thunderbolts* Is now in cinemas.

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