Murphy's Multiverse

Tag: Red Guardian

  • David Harbour Calls the Thunderbolts “Losers” and Promises “A Lot of Drama”

    David Harbour Calls the Thunderbolts “Losers” and Promises “A Lot of Drama”

    Marvel Studios has just left Phase 4 behind and is getting ready for the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After going through its grief phase, it’s time to see what a new kind of super team may bring to the table. While the Avengers‘ next two entries aren’t set for 2025 and 2026, we’ll get a very different kind of team-up to wrap up Phase 5, the Thunderbolts.

    Outside of a look at the roster, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the project. Perhaps Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is setting up some story points, we don’t know what will force the hands of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine to form such a ragtag team. David Harbour agrees and gets a chance to sit down with ComicBook.com’s Phase Zero podcast while promoting Violent Night, where he got an opportunity to tease the newly formed group of “losers” of the MCU.

    We’re… like, losers, which I like. We’re like, you know, the losers. And I think it’s fun to watch us just mess everything up. I think that’s the spectrum. I think it’s very funny, but there’s also a lot of pathos in that. There’s a lot of drama in a bunch of people that just keep getting their lives wrong and, because of character flaws, keep messing things up. And nobody gives them the respect that they do to Captain America and Iron Man, very capable people. So there’s a lot to draw on there. There’s a lot of movie there that’ll be fun.

    David Harbour

    It’s definitely a fun way to introduce the team, but it’s not the first time that Marvel took this approach. James Gunn introduced the world to the Guardians of the Galaxy as a bunch of “a-holes” that don’t usually belong together. Now that we have a group of anti-heroes working together, it does seem like their personalities are going to clash quite a bit throughout the film’s runtime.

    Source: YouTube via The Direct

  • ‘Black Widow’: David Harbour Hints at More Red Guardian in the MCU’s Future

    ‘Black Widow’: David Harbour Hints at More Red Guardian in the MCU’s Future

    The following article contains spoilers for the end of the Black Widow film. If you want to remain unspoiled, please only continue at your own risk.

     

     

     

    After a long wait, we finally had a chance to watch Black Widow. We got the last adventure of Scarlett Johansson‘s Natasha Romanoff before her untimely end in Avengers: Endgame. The film also set up some curious new players for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future, as we Florence Pugh‘s Yelena Belova, Rachel Weisz‘ Melina, and David Harbour‘s Red Guardian.

    The latter was a show-stealer throughout the film, as we meet a washed-up super soldier that is trapped in his delusion of grandeur. At the end of the film, he is seen flying off with the others as Natasha faced General Ross’ arrival. It made us wonder if Alexei might have a future in the franchise and it seems there have been some ideas going around. Harbour hinted at some rumblings behind the screens at Marvel studios in an interview with Collider.

    There is some chatter around certain things. We were pretty focused on just this. They also have a lot of stuff in the pipe that, it seems like in this particular phase, there’s a lot of different… There’s like Eternals… There’s different elements to this universe that I think they’re branching out at this point until they start to do this. I knew I wasn’t involved in that branch. The discussions were… They didn’t really give a sense of what was up next. It was more just really focused on this movie, and some speculation of possibilities.

    There’s a lot of potentials to explore Red Guardian in a Disney+ series. We got some references to other famous members of a Russian superhero group that includes Mikhail Ursus, better known as the mutant Ursa Major, and a name drop of Crimson Dynamo. The latter was quite an interesting reference, as they combined the original character with Whiplash in Iron Man 2.

    Perhaps there is a future for the character in the upcoming Armor Wars Disney+ series. It would be fun to see Alexei form a Russian copy of the Avengers to face Captain America. Yet, he ends up facing US Agent and joined a very different cause. There’s a lot of potential with the character. So, hopefully, we’ll get more of Harbour in the MCU’s future.

    If you want to check out the interview with Collider, you can watch the video here:

     

    Source: YouTube