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What if John Walker was the villain in Thunderbolts instead of Sentry?

Not only that, what if Taskmaster survived, the team featured

Man -Thing instead of Bucky, and the whole movie took place in the vault a la Die Hard?

Believe it or not, all of those things almost happened.

To find out how we went from that to the movie we know, let's dive in and take a look at what could have been Thunderbolts.

Many fans were disappointed by Taskmaster's treatment in Black Widow.

In the comics, she's a he and he's a funny, wise -cracking, and charismatic mercenary with photographic reflexes,

able to mimic any opponent's fighting style in seconds.

But the film reimagined the character as a quiet, emotionless enforcer, stripped of that trademark personality.

What could have been a dynamic, scene -stealing villain instead felt muted and underused.

The disappointment only deepened when Thunderbolts killed her off early,

erasing any opportunity to expand on her character or make her evolve more into the version from the comics.

However, originally the character didn't die as the script explored her bond with Ghost, with the two connecting over their shared pasts as experiments,

raised and weaponized by secret organizations.

Ghost, having already learned to assert her independence, took on a mentor -like role, helping Taskmaster rediscover her own identity and autonomy.

Taskmaster's tragic backstory also grounded the team, reminding the others that no matter how dark their histories were,

hers was worse, keeping their egos and self -pity in check.

On the lighter side, her lingering memory issues would have been an ongoing joke,

as she would have occasionally forgot she was no longer trying to kill John Walker and suddenly attack him mid -conversation,

forcing the group to repeatedly restrain her and remind her they were allies.

After the writer's strike halted production, however, director Jake Schreier felt the film lacked tension and unpredictability.

It was too bloodless, with little sense of danger or uncertainty about who might make it out alive.

To raise the emotional stakes, he chose to rework Taskmaster's role, deciding she should die early in the film in a sudden,

matter -of -fact way that would shock the audience and set the tone for what followed.

Her death was meant to resonate throughout the story, reminding viewers that no one on the team was truly safe.

Although the idea of saving her death for later in the film was considered, Schreier believed that if audiences got to know her better,

then her eventual death would overshadow the film's core focus, building a genuine bond between Yelena and Bob.

When writer Eric Pearson finally saw the finished film, however, he was stunned.

No one had told him Taskmaster would be killed off.

The change completely blindsided him, but in hindsight, he admitted the surprise worked, since it mirrored the audience's own shock.

He also suspected the decision was partly creative overlap.

Both Taskmaster and Bucky were grappling with memory loss and identity issues,

and removing her may have been a way to keep those arcs from feeling too similar.

Originally, the film opened with Yelena confronting Valentina about ordering the Clint Barton hit.

In the scene, Yelena angrily accused Valentina of manipulating her into targeting her sister's killer, when, in reality, he was her best friend.

Valentina then would flip the script on her, arguing that she had simply paid Yelena to do a job and she didn't finish it,

and that Valentina only shared the intel that

Clint Barton killed Natasha to further motivate Yelena, information that ultimately turned out to be false.

The exchange then shifted into a deeper discussion about Yelena's growing dissatisfaction with her work, and her desire to find something more meaningful,

a powerful setup for her arc that was sadly lost in the final version.

However, this was cut because writer

Eric Pearson felt that too much time had elapsed between Thunderbolts and Black Widow and Hawkeye, and he worried casual audiences wouldn't remember what happened.

Pearson had originally wanted to use

Red Hulk as Thunderbolt's main villain, but Marvel Studios rejected the idea due to their existing plans to use him for Captain America Brave New World.

As a result, Pearson made John Walker, aka US Agent, the film's main antagonist.

His storyline was dark and tragic.

Valentina deceived him into thinking his super soldier serum was wearing off

and gave him pills to fix

it unknowingly turning him into a ticking time bomb as his instability grew became more volatile

and alienated from the team culminating in a finale where the

Thunderbolts were forced to confront one of their own choosing not to try

and kill him but to try and save him however around the same time

Brave New World was developing a similar storyline in

which Thaddeus Ross transforms into the Red Hulk after unknowingly taking pills from Samuel Stearns aka the leader, that was secretly infused with gamma radiation.

To avoid repeating the same idea, Thunderbolts needed to rethink its villain yet again.

Pearson remembered the Sentry miniseries years earlier during his time in the Marvel Writers program.

Revisiting the character, he was struck by the idea of a Superman -like villain who the team couldn't simply beat in a punching fight.

The Sentry's duality, a shining symbol of heroism, contrasted with his dark alter ego, the Void, perfectly captured the film's core themes.

To Pearson, it represented the conflict between confidence and self -doubt and heroism and isolation.

Once he realized that the team's emotional arcs could all be reflected within a single character, serving as both hero and antagonist,

the story finally came together.

Steven Yeun, who had previously worked with director

Jake Schreier on the Netflix series

Beef, was originally cast as Sentry.

As Schreier believed, Yeun's emotional range and intensity made him a perfect fit.

However, strike -related production delays caused scheduling conflicts, forcing Yeun to leave the project, a decision he later said he was disappointed by.

Marvel then cast loose.

Pullman, whose quieter, more introspective approach redefined the role.

The void, the dark realm connecting to Sentry's powers, went through its own evolution.

Initially, Pearson wrote it as a surreal, dreamlike space, but Schreier wanted it more grounded and unsettling, inspired by being John Malkovich,

turning it into maze -like shame rooms that reflected each character's inner guilt.

As a result, these moments were reworked to make them more symbolic and emotionally charged.

Director Jake Schreier initially wanted to include

Man -Thing, who was once part of Luke Cage's Thunderbolts lineup alongside Ghost.

Man -Thing is a tragic figure once a scientist named Ted

Salas who transformed him into a swamp creature after injecting himself with the super soldier serum

he was trying to recreate and crashing his car into a swamp.

Afterwards, he's barely capable of speech but possesses a terrifying power.

Anyone who feels fear burns at his touch.

The filmmakers explored using

Man -Thing as a government asset or as evidence of an experiment gone wrong that Valentina wanted destroyed.

However, the creative team struggled to fit him into the story before realizing

that a swamp monster clashed tonally with the rest of the film.

Essentially since Thunderbolts already featured another extraordinary character in Sentry.

Having both would have drawn too much attention away from Sentry's transformation and emotional arc.

The filmmakers also felt that including a swamp monster risked inviting comparisons to Suicide Squad's Killer Croc,

making Thunderbolts feel less distinct from DC's ensemble anti -hero film.

Bucky also wasn't originally part of the team or in the film at all.

The story originally focused on Valentina's recruits, Yelena, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker, as a group of anti -heroes forced to work together under her control.

Bucky's inclusion is supposed to serve a few important purposes.

His part as a brainwashed assassin connected him to the other's shared trauma, making him a natural fit.

He also gave the story a familiar face linking thunderbolts to the MCU.

However, Bucky was originally written as a washed -up public figure, being used by politicians as a promotional tool,

the political equivalent of hiring a retired athlete to shake hands at a car wash.

At first, it seemed like a humiliating fall from grace, suggesting Bucky had sold out and lost his purpose.

However, it would later be revealed that this was all part of an undercover mission.

He had infiltrated the world of politics and commerce to investigate Valentina,

working alongside a congressman who secretly served as his ally before eventually going on the hunt.

After Pearson left the project, Feige suggested that Barnes should be a congressman instead.

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Bill Foster, played by Lawrence Fishburne in Ant -Man and the Wasp, was also set to join the team in the final act,

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even getting a classic Goliath moment that paid tribute to his comic book counterpart, the giant -sized hero who gained his powers by synthesizing

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Hank Pym's particles.

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The film would have explored the dynamic between

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Foster and Alexei, two older men acting as unlikely father figures to Ghost and Yelena respectively.

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However, Foster's subplot was ultimately cut

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because his character didn't share the same kind of deep -rooted trauma that thematically connected the rest of the team.

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Zemo was also close to appearing in the movie.

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One early draft included a post -credits scene showing him in prison,

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quietly observing Valentina's new team and hinting that he'd been orchestrating events from behind the scenes.

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A fitting nod to his comic book origins, where Zemo was the one who assembled the Thunderbolts.

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Pearson envisioned Zemo as a Kaiser Soze -like figure, manipulating everything from the shadows.

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However, the idea was ultimately scrapped, as the filmmakers felt it just felt like fan service.

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Originally, Pearson wanted the film to take place in a single location, a massive underground prison called The Vault.

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The idea was to trap the team together, forcing them to work with or against one another.

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Pearson described it as diehard meets the breakfast club, high tension mixed with character bonding, giving them a bunch of team -building exercises to escape.

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He wanted to avoid repeating

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Suicide Squad, which had been done twice and featured an authority figure taking criminals and sending them on a mission.

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However, Marvel worried it felt too contained for a big -screen superhero film, and asked Pearson to expand the scope.

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The later versions added new settings, multiple missions, and broader stakes.

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Regardless, Thunderbolts ultimately became a very different kind of superhero film, one that traded spectacle for introspection.

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What began as a high -concept, die -hard -style thriller evolved into a grounded story about trauma, identity, and redemption.

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And while it ultimately delivered a powerful message about broken people finding strength in one another, Thunderbolts struggled to connect with mainstream audiences,

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its quieter, more reflective tone proving a tough sell in a genre built on spectacle.

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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The Original Plans for Thunderbolts」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：thunderbolts, film, Pearson, originally, character。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が124文、単語が1842語あります。音声の長さは9:18です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約198語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は71%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
villain 名詞	/ˈvɪl.ən/	悪人, 悪党
comic 名詞	/ˈkɑmɪk/	漫画, コミック
swamp 名詞	/ˈswɑmp/	沼地, 湿地
connect 動詞	/kəˈnɛkt/	繋げる
remind 動詞	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	思い出させる
explore 動詞	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	探検する
trauma 名詞	/ˈtɹɔm.ə/	外傷, 損傷
tragic 形容詞	/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/	悲惨な
filmmaker 名詞		映画製作者
tone 名詞	/ˈtəʊn/	トーン
killer 名詞	/ˈkɪlɚ/	殺人者, キラー
shock 名詞	/ʃɔk/	衝撃, ショック
alongside	/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/	に沿って
disappointed 形容詞	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/	失望した
reflect 動詞	/ɹɪˈflɛkt/	跳ね返す, 反射する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる
sold out 形容詞	売り切れ
wash up 動詞	洗面する, 手を洗う
wear off 動詞	消える

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	was meant · was considered · would be killed
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	Anyone who feels · one who assembled

注意したい発音

話し手はdidn't, couldn't, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を8回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「th」の音: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, thunderbolt /ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/
「sh」と「zh」の音: shock /ʃɔk/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, wash /wɑʃ/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/, respectively /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, regardless /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/, respectively /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: villain /ˈvɪl.ən/, void /vɔɪd/, vault /vɑlt/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, respectively /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, beef /bif/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, flip /flɪp/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。villain, comic, swampなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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