Whereas Marvel’s had no bother incorporating unresolved materials from earlier films 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 short punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and subsequent 12 months’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 bit of on returning to this character. Curiously, he revealed the Chief will likely be finished “as virtually as doable with an absence of digital stuff.” The Hulk villain’s received a reasonably large head as a facet impact of being bombared with the gamma radiation that granted his tremendous intelligence. Usually, that enormous skull would in all probability be one thing finished with CG, however given the previous few MCU films have been dinged for dodgy CG—to the purpose that its in-house VFX team unionized simply final 12 months—it appears Marvel’s determined to let that large ol’ head be a sensible impact. In truth, 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 gained’t be a visible eyesore is sweet 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 pressured that Courageous New World can be pretty grounded and push Sam Wilson to his limits. Nelson equally overestimated the movie as “very a lot reality-based,” and heaped reward onto Marvel and Onah for getting as actual as doable. For him, that method 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 comfortable about [this movie].”
Captain America: Courageous New World releases on February 14, 2025.
[through IGN]
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