When Thunderbolts* was introduced, numerous MCU followers have been shocked to see that Baron Zemo, performed by Daniel Brühl, was not part of the primary forged. Those that held out hope of a cameo look had their desires squashed for good this weekend, because the character stays fully absent from the movie. Nevertheless, plainly an early model of the script of Thunderbolts* featured one of many founding members of the staff enjoying a decently necessary position on the finish of the movie.
Throughout an interview with Display Rant, Eric Pearson, who wrote the unique script earlier than Lee Sung Jin signed on, revealed that Baron Zemo was part of the narrative in some unspecified time in the future. In truth, a scrapped post-credits scene noticed the villain be revealed to be the one pulling the strings behind the whole lot. It sounded fairly convoluted and pointless, and it appears the screenwriter ultimately felt the identical method. Pearson:
“To be truthful, there was a model the place we stopped at a child’s home who had simply thrown a highschool celebration, so I feel Zemo was there at one level.
I feel there was a model of a tag written a very long time in the past, form of revealing who’s behind all of it. It was revealed that Baron Zemo was pulling some strings from jail or no matter. I may be simply inventing issues now, however I really feel like there may’ve been a model the place a tag the place Zemo had damaged out and swapped locations with somebody – perhaps Valentina’s assistant – and he was working with a Widow masks below.”

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Zemo stans will not be very comfortable to listen to that he didn’t make it to the ultimate model of Thunderbolts*, however maybe his future within the MCU will not be but over. The final time audiences noticed him, the Captain America villain was briefly allied with Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes in Falcon & the Winter Soldier. As of proper now, Zemo is imprisoned within the Raft, and the identical super-powered stronghold that homes The Chief. Certain, the most recent Captain America movie, Courageous New World, didn’t meet field workplace expectations, however a future installment may convey again Zemo in an enormous method. In any case, there are nonetheless a number of threads from Falcon & the Winter Soldier that stay open-ended.
Baron Zemo Merely Did not Slot in ‘Thunderbolts’
Regardless of being a key a part of the staff’s creation within the comics, Baron Zemo didn’t merely match into the narrative that the creatives behind Thunderbolts* needed to inform. The movie, which is basically targeted on Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), would have detracted from its focus by revealing Zemo has the true evil mastermind. After all, that doesn’t imply Eric Pearson and firm didn’t attempt to get him within the story. Nevertheless, all roads led to Zemo being unnoticed of the ultimate product.
“Typically folks assume that we’re zagging on function, and it is like, ‘No, we all know that Zemo may be very integral to a unique story model of them.’ He is a part of placing them collectively, and we negated the necessity for that with our very premise.
However we all the time assume again to the comics. There’s all the time the dialogue of, ‘Effectively, if there is a technique to cleverly embrace Baron Zemo on this, he completely ought to be there.’ However on this story that we needed to inform and that we fell in love with, Yelena was central, and all of those folks discover their method by Yelena. After which we have been introducing Bob as effectively, so he simply did not match. We did not wish to simply have a feathered fish.”
It appears Zemo being within the script was a quick concept that left the inventive mind belief by the point director Jake Schreier joined the challenge. In truth, the filmmaker confirmed that he was not conscious of any thought to incorporate the villain. Zemo stans must wait an undetermined period of time earlier than he pops up again on display screen once more, whether or not that be in theaters or on Disney+.
Supply: Display Rant

Thunderbolts*
- Launch Date
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Might 2, 2025
- Runtime
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126 Minutes
- Writers
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Eric Pearson, Joanna Calo
- Franchise(s)
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Marvel Cinematic Universe