2023-05-26 08:10:00
Filming for this new Marvel production was scheduled to begin in three weeks in Atlanta for a theatrical release scheduled for July 2024.
New repercussions of the screenwriters’ strike in the United States. Marvel Studios has announced that it is putting its next film on hiatus Thunderboltswhich was scheduled to begin filming in three weeks in Atlanta.
As reported Deadline, the feature film team was informed of this suspension on Wednesday. Filming should, according to the American media, resume once the strike is over.
Directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts was to be released in theaters in July 2024. This project features a team of superheroes and follows the series Falcon and the Winter Soldier as well as movies Black Widow et Captain America: New World Order.
On the casting side,Thunderbolts is to feature stars such as Florence Pugh (Black Widow), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), David Harbor (Red Guardian), Harrison Ford (President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross) as well as Steven Yeun whose role has yet to be revealed.
In early May, Marvel Studios also announced the shelving of one of their other big productions: the movie Blade. This superhero feature film, starring actor Mahershala Ali, was to begin filming in Atlanta in May for a release scheduled for September 4, 2024 in France.
Recently, these are also the series Rings of Power or Stranger Things who have been forced to postpone their work due to the strike of American television and film writers.
Led by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) union, this strike movement began on May 2 due to the failure of negotiations between screenwriters and the main studios and platforms, in particular on an increase in their remuneration.
In addition to the increase in their salaries, the screenwriters are demanding minimum guarantees to benefit from a stable job and to be able to receive a greater share of the profits generated by streaming.
Since the beginning of the mobilization, several celebrities have taken the floor to express their solidarity with the screenwriters on strike such as actresses Amanda Seyfried and Elizabeth Olsen as well as the American television star Jimmy Fallon, and the President of the United States Joe Biden. The former president of the United States, Barack Obama, also lent his support to the movement, this Thursday, asking that the screenwriters touch “a fair shareof streaming revenue.
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