Eric Pearson On Crafting “Thunderbolts*” From The Wounds Of Lesser-Known Avengers Characters

#Thunderbolts* (don’t forget the asterisk) is a refreshing outing featuring lesser known characters from the Avengers/ MCU palette. There’s Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) who was trained as a Red Room assassin and Black Widow’s sister, Bucky Barnes/ Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), John Walker/ U.S. Agent and Steve Rogers’/ Captain America’s successor (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) in Ant-Man and the Wasp and David Harbour (Red Guardian), Yelena’s father.

Together, they form the scrappy, grungy, neglected New Avengers collectively known as Thunderbolts*. Co-writer Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok, Black Widow) who wrote the script with Joanna Calo, spoke with Creative Screenwriting Magazine about his latest MCU project.

Read the full interview with Eric Pearson HERE.