Whereas Marvel’s had no bother incorporating unresolved materials from earlier motion pictures into its current fare, the studio took its candy time bringing again threads from 2008’s The Unbelievable Hulk. Abomination confirmed up in She-Hulk after a quick punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and subsequent yr’s Captain America: Courageous New World is about to go even additional by bringing again a number of characters: Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford), his daughter Betty (Liv Tyler), and Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Sterns, aka the Chief.
Just lately, Nelson appeared on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast, the place he dished a little bit on returning to this character. Apparently, he revealed the Chief shall be performed “as virtually as potential with an absence of digital stuff.” The Hulk villain’s bought a reasonably large head as a facet impact of being bombared with the gamma radiation that granted his tremendous intelligence. Usually, that big skull would in all probability be one thing performed with CG, however given the previous couple of MCU motion pictures have been dinged for dodgy CG—to the purpose that its in-house VFX team unionized simply final yr—it appears Marvel’s determined to let that large ol’ head be a sensible impact. In reality, Kevin Feige and fellow producer Nate Moore had been each “on board 100%” to do the character as sensible as they might.
Listening to the Chief received’t be a visible eyesore is nice to listen to, and reaffirms how this film is taking part in issues extra reserved than the extra fantastical MCU flicks. Earlier this month, director Julius Onah burdened that Courageous New World can be pretty grounded and push Sam Wilson to his limits. Nelson equally puffed up the movie as “very a lot reality-based,” and heaped reward onto Marvel and Onah for getting as actual as potential. For him, that strategy with the Chief was one thing he was “actually gratified to do,” and one he thinks will profit the general movie. “It’s splendidly directed by Julius,” he mentioned. “I’m very pleased about [this movie].”
Captain America: Courageous New World releases on February 14, 2025.
[by way of IGN]
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