The Writer of Thunderbolts Was Spoiled on The Last of Us Season 2… Because of The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Spoilers travel for Thunderbolts and The Last of Us Season 2.

Spoilers and spoiler-phobic civilization person evolved implicit the years, including not conscionable however fans comprehend what a spoiler is but besides what the Hollywood selling instrumentality adjacent considers to beryllium a spoiler. Go backmost and ticker Michael Keaton springiness distant the large “the Joker killed Batman’s parents” twist connected Letterman the time earlier the movie came retired successful 1989, for example. Imagine that happening today?

Well, it turns retired adjacent Hollywood filmmakers interest astir being spoiled connected worldly these days. Take Eric Pearson, co-writer of Thunderbolts/The New Avengers, who was annoyed to beryllium spoiled connected the decease of Pedro Pascal’s quality Joel successful the existent play of The Last of Us. The happening is, helium was spoiled done little accepted means than astir of america would be…

“I recovered retired astir the destiny of [Joel in] Episode 2 by learning astir Pedro's docket for Fantastic Four past year,” the writer precocious told me. “So I was like, well, I cognize what's going to hap present successful that amusement that I similar that's not coming retired for different year. So annoying.”

The taxable of spoilers came up with Pearson erstwhile we were discussing the Thunderbolts quality Bob/Sentry (Lewis Pullman), who is teased successful the trailers arsenic a random quality who conscionable winds up successful the institution of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and the rest. As helium explained, the representation nonaccomplishment constituent of the Sentry successful the Marvel Comics was an facet that Pearson wanted to play into successful the movie version. But the world is thing from the root worldly of a comic-book movie successful the post-MCU satellite is beauteous hard to support quiet.

“You enactment that into conscionable the amusive of, hey, there's immoderate feline named Bob successful this impenetrable vault wherever we're each expected to termination each different and he's successful aesculapian scrubs. What the hellhole is helium doing here?” said Pearson. “Of course, the net has to fig everything retired and spoil it all. But successful those beautiful, guiltless days erstwhile we thought possibly idiosyncratic wouldn't conscionable spoil everything, it was like, oh, who's Bob? Let's person a batch of amusive with cipher knowing and cipher knowing wherefore this random feline is there.”

But past Bob coiled up successful the trailers, of course, and the fans rapidly enactment unneurotic that helium was Bob Reynolds, aka the Sentry. And that was that.

“I would similar it not to person [been spoiled successful the trailers], but you can't assistance it really,” helium continued. “You can't assistance the selling choices.”

Perhaps we’re each portion of the spoiler problem. Pearson remembers watching the trailer for Zack Snyder’s 300 “a cardinal times” earlier it came retired successful 2006, particularly the rousing infinitesimal erstwhile Leonidas (Gerard Butler) kicks an unfortunate messenger into a well.

“And past you get to the portion successful the movie wherever helium is close adjacent to the spread and he's going to footwear him successful … and you're sitting determination successful the theatre going, ‘Kick him successful the spread already!’” laughs Pearson. “The trailer trained my encephalon not to bask that country due to the fact that I cognize helium is going to get kicked successful the hole. … I'm arsenic arsenic guilty. I ticker each the trailers and whenever I get to spot a movie that I haven't seen the trailer for, I bask it truthful overmuch more. But we're fiends for this stuff, truthful what are you expected to do, really? I can't blasted anyone.”

Still, determination is the large anticipation of the radical who… conscionable spell spot a movie similar Thunderbolts without googling “Bob Marvel explained” oregon what person you. Maybe they ne'er adjacent saw the trailer earlier they went to the movie! Regular folks who spell successful conscionable looking to bask a movie similar Thunderbolts. Surely, specified folks were astatine slightest amazed by the Bob twist.

“I bash anticipation much radical spell successful with little knowledge,” says the writer.

And you cognize what? Those aforesaid radical astir apt weren’t spoiled connected Joel or the 1989 Joker uncover either.