Lewis Pullman could also be getting a jolt, courtesy of Marvel Studios. The Top Gun: Maverick actor is Marvel’s best choice to star in Thunderbolts, and has a proposal for the position vacated by Steven Yeun earlier this month.
Marvel and reps for Pullman didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Yeun was hooked up to Thunderbolts in February 2023, although Marvel didn’t formally announce his casting. However on Jan. 2, information broke that the Oscar-nominated actor was departing the challenge centering on Marvel’s villains and antiheroes.
Thunderbolts was hit by delays due to the writers and actors strikes of 2023, with its launch date pushed a 12 months to July 25, 2025. The movie has a forged that features Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Jake Schreier is directing the function, which has not but begun filming.
Pullman, who’s the son of actor Invoice Pullman, performed Lt. Robert “Bob” Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick, the $1.5 billion field workplace juggernaut. Different notable credit embody Dangerous Occasions on the El Royale and the TV sequence Outer Vary. He lately starred in Classes in Chemistry, reverse Marvel star Brie Larson, the place he performed her character’s love curiosity, chemistry researcher Calvin Evans.
The genre-centric journalist Daniel Richtman first reported Pullman’s casting. The actor is repped by CAA and Nameless Content material.
