{"id":1192604,"date":"2026-02-17T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=596372"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:05:39","slug":"thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts*\u2019 writer didn\u2019t know Marvel cut his Taskmaster arc until he saw the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ever since the first <em>Thunderbolts*<\/em> trailer came out, sharp-eyed Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have been theorizing about one particular gap between the cast list and the footage released. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/22555657\/black-widow-review\"><em>Black Widow<\/em><\/a> villain Antonia Dreykov, aka Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), appears on the movie\u2019s poster and marketing, but is noticeably absent from other scenes and shots in the promotional material, leading to speculation that her role in the movie is fairly minimal. That wound up being true \u2014&nbsp;though original <em>Thunderbolts*<\/em>&nbsp; screenwriter Eric Pearson (<em>Black Widow<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/518273\/fantastic-four-2025-first-trailer\"><em>Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/em><\/a>) tells Polygon he wrote a much more involved arc for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">He also says he only found out how radically her role had been altered when he was sitting in an early screening, watching the movie, which \u201cshocked the hell\u201d out of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note: <\/strong>Significant spoilers ahead about Taskmaster\u2019s situation in <em>Thunderbolts*<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Black Widow <\/em>sets up Antonia as the cyborg-ized, mind-controlled daughter and ultimate weapon of Dreykov (Ray Winstone), the general behind both the Soviet version of the super-soldier-serum project that produced Red Guardian (David Harbour) and the torturous Red Room program that turned Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and her sister Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) into super-assassins. By the end of <em>Black Widow<\/em>, Dreykov is dead, which leaves Antonia to put her own super-assassin skills (and ability to mimic anyone\u2019s fighting style) to more profitable work, serving as a mercenary for CIA director and mega-schemer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23450015\/valentina-allegra-de-fontaine-black-panther-wakanda-forever-julia-louis-dreyfus\">Valentina Allegra de Fontaine<\/a> (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">When Valentina faces impeachment and possible arrest for her many crimes early in <em>Thunderbolts*<\/em>, she tries to cover her tracks by sending all her operatives to a high-security vault at the same time with different information and assassination assignments, hoping they\u2019ll wipe each other out. Most of her mercs \u2014 Yelena (from <em>Black Widow<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22797611\/hawkeye-premiere-review-hailee-steinfeld\"><em>Hawkeye<\/em><\/a>),&nbsp;John Walker\/US Agent (Wyatt Russell) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/22375650\/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-episode-4-super-soldiers\"><em>The<\/em> <em>Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/em><\/a>, and Ava Starr\/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/6\/27\/17508562\/ant-man-and-the-wasp-review-paul-rudd-evangeline-lilly\"><em>Ant Man and The Wasp<\/em><\/a> \u2014 all&nbsp;survive the group\u2019s first confrontation. Antonia doesn\u2019t. Ghost guns her down. There are no surprise reveals where she survived that encounter, at least not in this movie \u2014&nbsp;she appears to die, and shortly after that, to be incinerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">All of which came as a complete surprise to Pearson. \u201cIt was decided after my work,\u201d he told Polygon. \u201cWhen I sat down to watch the first cut, one thing was totally different and shocked the hell out of me, and it was that. Everything else, I was like, \u2018Yeah, that&#8217;s the movie that I wrote!\u2019 But that decision\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As far as why Taskmaster was removed from the movie, Pearson says he doesn\u2019t know: \u201cYou&#8217;d have to ask [director] Jake Schreier or [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] or [co-credited screenwriter] Joanna [Calo], maybe. But if I were to guess, it would be to get the reaction that I had as an audience member, like, \u2018Whoa, we&#8217;re upping the stakes, we\u2019re doing something drastic really fast, and we&#8217;re putting everybody on edge.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Pearson says that in the final draft of his script, Antonia\/Taskmaster survives for the entire movie, and was the center of \u201ca pretty big subplot.\u201d His script had Taskmaster bonding with Ava, who, as we learned in <em>Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/em>, gained quantum-shifting powers in a lab accident that killed her parents, and was subsequently found by SHIELD, raised in a lab, and trained as a weapon. Pearson felt they\u2019d have a lot in common \u201cas people who&#8217;d grown up in labs and been controlled that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cAnd Ava, having won her autonomy earlier in the chronology than Taskmaster, was kind of big-sistering her a little bit, in a way of \u2018how to break free and be your own person,\u2019&#8221; Pearson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">He also feels that Taskmaster\u2019s presence helped rein in some of the other characters\u2019 tendency for self-pity: \u201cI mean, everyone in there has suffered a ton of tragedy,\u201d he says. \u201cBut she was kind of the ultimate tragedy. In the old tragedy rankings, she was at the top, and the other, bigger personalities \u2014 no one could get out of line, because no one could say \u2018I had it worse than you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">His version of Taskmaster also enabled a running joke about her tendency to forget she\u2019d moved past trying to assassinate John Walker, and go after him again. \u201cOn the comedy side, she was struggling with her own memory-loss stuff, and there was a gag where she just kept restarting the fight and forgetting that they had made up and become friends.\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cThey would be discussing the plan of how to get out [of the vault], and she&#8217;d just go after him again, and they&#8217;d all have to pig-pile on each other, and pull her off, and be like, \u2018No, we know each other! We&#8217;ve had this conversation before!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Pearson does wonder if one reason Antonia\u2019s plotlines were cut short was because that gag felt redundant with the movie\u2019s other big friend-turned-foe plotline. \u201cThat could contribute as another reason why they chose to bring her out of the movie,\u201d he says. \u201cBob was obviously having memory issues as a big part of his character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Comic book stories being what they are, there\u2019s always the chance Taskmaster could come back at some point, with a reveal about how she survived that shot to the face: Her extremely high-tech armor is, after all, part of her power set, and we only see the bullet hole in her mask, not in her head. It seems unlikely that Marvel Studios would bother with a character they killed so offhandedly and abruptly \u2014&nbsp;but hey, <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>\u2019s Gamora returned from the dead (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23702435\/how-is-gamora-alive-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3\">via time-loop shenanigans<\/a>), and Tom Hiddleston\u2019s Loki has \u201cdied\u201d three times (and became a cosmic tree once), yet he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/547051\/avengers-doomsday-cast-announcement-livestream\">still apparently coming back for <em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em><\/a>. So it\u2019s always possible she could still show up to punch Walker in the face a few more times. He deserves it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Thunderbolts*<\/em> is in theaters now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/596372\/thunderbolts-taskmaster-death-planned-story-arc\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the first Thunderbolts* trailer came out, sharp-eyed Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have been theorizing about one particular gap between the cast list and the footage released. Black Widow villain Antonia Dreykov, aka Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), appears on the movie\u2019s poster and marketing, but is noticeably absent from other scenes and shots in the promotional material, leading to speculation that her role in the movie is fairly minimal. That wound up being true \u2014&nbsp;though original Thunderbolts*&nbsp; screenwriter Eric Pearson (Black Widow, Fantastic Four: First Steps) tells Polygon he wrote a much more involved arc for her. He also says he only found out how radically her role had been altered when he was sitting in an early screening, watching the movie, which \u201cshocked the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/thunderbolts-writer-didnt-know-marvel-cut-his-taskmaster-arc-until-he-saw-the-movie\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thunderbolts*\u2019 writer didn\u2019t know Marvel cut his Taskmaster arc until he saw the movie | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta 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