OHMYGOSSIP — Steven Yeun is “sorry” for dropping out of ‘Thunderbolts’.
The 40-year-old actor’s involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film had been reported early last year, and while his casting was never officially confirmed by Marvel, he had to pull out this week due to scheduling issues.
The star has now admitted he redrafted an email several times to ensure he could “convey the sincerity” of how sorry he was to depart the motion picture.
He told Variety: “I think for me, time passing and things shifting kind of pulled me out of it.
“It took a lot of drafts on email to make sure that I conveyed the sincerity of how sorry I was to have to back out.
“I wanna do a Marvel movie.”
When asked what Marvel film he would love to land a role in, he said: “I think it’s too early to say that. I probably [annoyed] too many people leaving, so I’m just gonna say, ‘Thank you for having me.’
“I have some ideas. But I heard if you put it out there, you’ll never get it, so I’ll keep it close to my chest.”
Yeun has tipped director Jake Schreier to do an “incredible job” on ‘Thunderbolts’.
He said: “But Jake [Schreier], I know, is going to do an incredible job.”
‘Thunderbolts’ had been set to begin filming last summer but was pushed back to this year due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
It is thought the filming delay played a big part in Yeun’s departure from the project.
The ‘Walking Dead’ star previously explained that joining the MCU wasn’t on his “bucket list”, and the big appeal of the project was the opportunity to work with filmmaker Schreier again after their collaboration on the TV series ‘Beef’.
Yeun previously told Empire magazine: “I don’t know if it was explicitly on my bucket list. It was more the story, getting to work with Jake Schreier again, who directed ‘Beef’, and what his intentions were.”
The star had been due to feature in the blockbuster alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour and Sebastian Stan.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Amber Heard has thanked fans for their “overwhelming support” as ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ hits screens.
The 37-year-old star has shared behind-the-scenes snaps from her time working on the long-awaited DC sequel, including a rare picture of her feeding her two-year-old daughter Oonagh Paige in the back of a car.
She captioned the Instagram post: “After all this time, Aquaman 2 made its splash (sorry, it’s too easy)
“Thank you to all of my fans for the overwhelming support and love in Mera’s AQ return. Thank you so much.”
Amber is back as Mera alongside Jason Momoa’s titular character and previously admitted there is a “tonne of pressure” on the flick to have blockbuster success.
The ‘Rum Diary’ actress – who embarked on a fresh chapter in her career after her highly-public defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp in 2022 – previously admitted that while she is “honoured” to have played a role in the DC world, she relished getting to work on a “passion project” in the indie film ‘In The Fire’.
Speaking to Deadline, Amber said: “There’s a tonne of pressure on these big franchise movies, with millions and millions of dollars at stake, and compromises are part of trying to make it the most successful thing it can be. Then on the other end of the spectrum is a small indie film like ‘In The Fire’, a work of art and work of love, with nowhere near the same resources, and so there are compromises there. The best luck you can have as an actor is to be able to balance both.”
Amber loved getting “dirty” with her co-stars and the director to “breathe life” into ‘In The Fire’.
She plays Grace, a doctor from New York, who “travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who seems to have inexplicable abilities.”
She added: “‘Aquaman’, that franchise and the machinery behind it, I’m very honoured to be a part of that. And then there are these small passion projects like ‘In The Fire’, where I’m proud to have gotten to know the filmmaker and the cast, and we got dirty together, to breathe life into this story. There’s something cool about that, and I think success is an actor who is able to have both those things.”
Amber insists her career won’t be tarnished by the trials and tribulations of her personal life.
She told the publication: “I think I’ve earned respect for that to be its own thing.
“That’s substantial enough. What I have been through, what I’ve lived through, doesn’t make my career at all. And it’s certainly not gonna stop my career. So let’s talk about this movie.”
The former couple was embroiled in a six-week trial over a piece Amber wrote in 2018 about being a victim of domestic violence, with the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor, 60, ultimately winning over $10 million in damages after winning all three of his defamation claims while she was awarded $2 million after winning one of her three countersuit claims.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chad Stahelski is keen to direct a ‘Star Wars’ film.
The ‘John Wick’ filmmaker is a huge fan of the iconic sci-fi franchise and explained that he has ideas in mind for a picture of his own.
Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast, Chad said: “I’m a ‘Star Wars’ guy. The first ‘Star Wars’ changed my life path.
“Maybe someday out there, Disney if you’re listening, hit me in a couple of years. I have a couple of takes for ‘Star Wars’. I’d take a swing at that, see if Disney could survive me.”
Chad has only got behind the camera on the four ‘John Wick’ movies so far and explained that he is reluctant to work on other franchises as he would have to make creative compromises.
He said: “I’ve been asked a lot about, ‘Why do you do John Wicks? Don’t you want to try something else?’
“Yes of course I do, but given the choice I’ve had and the parameters that were presented to me, as far as those opportunities went, I felt like I could do more and bring something more, and do more of what I want, and do the fights and the anime and the action more my way by doing (‘John Wick’). Why work within somebody else’s parameters of what I feel to be a duel or mythology when I can create.”
Chad admits that there is a part of him that struggles to say no when he is offered the chance to make a movie.
The former stuntman said: “It is a big ego dump when you’re like, ‘Alright, do I think I can take them?’
“I still have a little bit of a competitor mindset left in me. I’m going, ‘No that’s cool and I’m very flattered and I’m very honoured’, but at the same time I want to take a swing. It’s like Rocky. I gotta know.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Margot Robbie has played down the prospect of a ‘Barbie’ sequel.
The 33-year-old actress played the title role in last summer’s hit blockbuster and explained that so much went into the picture that a follow-up isn’t a priority for her or director Greta Gerwig at this moment in time.
Margot – who served as a producer on the film for her LuckyChap Entertainment banner – told Variety: “It’s funny, that knee-jerk reaction in this day and age for everyone to immediately ask about a sequel. I don’t think it was like that 20 years ago. This wasn’t designed to be a trilogy.
“Everything went into ‘Barbie’ – and that’s how Greta works. She finishes every movie on empty, feeling like she could never make another movie because she put everything she had into that one. So I don’t know what it would take to fill that cup up again for her. Or for us.”
The ‘Babylon’ actress explained that she would prefer to make other movies that replicate the impact that ‘Barbie’ has had on the film industry.
Margot said: “We want to make more films that have the effect that ‘Barbie’ has. I don’t know if it has to be ‘Barbie 2’. Why can’t it be another big, original, bold idea where we get an amazing filmmaker, a big budget to play with, and the trust of a huge conglomerate behind them to go and really play? I want to do that.”
The Australian star has produced flicks including ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Saltburn’ for LuckyChap and explained that she has a desire to get behind the camera and direct in the future.
Asked when she could helm a film, Margot said: “I don’t know. The tricky thing is, as much as I say I’m strict about saying no as a producer, I also get so excited with all the things that I could produce that it ends up taking all my time.
“And as an actor, I get to work with so many brilliant directors and watch them do it – it’s like having a front-row seat to the best master class in the world. So it’s really tempting to keep doing that. But directing is a dear ambition of mine.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jack Black has joined the cast of ‘Minecraft’.
The actor and singer is set to appear in the upcoming video game adaptation – which features Jason Momoa as the lead – and has seemingly confirmed the news.
Deadline claimed he has been cast as a character called Steve, although the film’s plot details are still being kept under wraps with writing credits yet to be revealed.
Following the report, the Tenacious D rocker shared a photo on Instagram of himself reading a ‘Minecraft Basics for Dummies’ book.
He captioned the wrote: “An actor prepares.”
The movie is also set to star Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen, while ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ director Jared Hess – who worked with Black on 2006’s ‘Nacho Libre’ – will be at the helm.
The project is being backed by Legendary and Warner Bros with a planned April 2025 release date.
In the past, the likes of Peter Sollett, Rob McElhenney and Shawn Levy have all been in talks to direct before Hess got on board.
It’s still unclear what the movie will actually be about, but Deadline added that production is set to begin soon in New Zealand.
‘Minecraft’ launched in 2011 and the sandbox game – which lets players make 3D worlds using colourful blocks – has gone onto become one of the best selling titles of all time, with over 140 million monthly users.
It’s not the first video game film Black will be involved in either, after he previously appeared in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ and both of the new ‘Jumanji’ movies, while he has been cast in ‘Borderlands’.
Meanwhile, he is also confirmed to be reprising the role of Po in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming sequel ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rob Lowe is still not over losing the lead role of Ren McCormack in ‘Footloose’ to Kevin Bacon.
The 59-year-old actor was left gutted when his knee “exploded” trying to nail a key dance move in the 1984 musical classic.
The producers then decided they needed to hire a professional dancer, only to cast Kevin Bacon, 65, a week later.
He told USA Today: “The thing that’s awful about it was, I was the guy. I was going to get this part. I just had to do the dance, which was to a Styx song, by the way. Not helpful. But it ended with that drop-to-your-knees slide across the floor. My knee just exploded. They took me out on a stretcher. As they were wheeling me out, the producers were like, ‘We’re going have to get a real professional dancer.’ A week into my rehab, I read they cast Kevin Bacon. That’s when I learned what Hollywood was about.”
To add insult to injury, Kevin told him he didn’t stand a chance of landing the role.
Asked if Kevin is “thankful”, Rob replied: “There are two ways I’ve been very helpful to other actors’ careers. Blowing out my knee really helped Kevin Bacon, and turning down ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ really helped Patrick Dempsey. I spoke to Kevin about it. He told me, ‘You wouldn’t have gotten it, anyway.'”
Meanwhile, Rob previously admitted he is “grateful” for everything that has happened in his life.
The ‘West Wing’ star struggled with addiction issues in the 1980s, but after being clean for more than three decades, he has “no regrets” about his wild past and admitted he was ready to move on and lead a quieter family life.
He told PEOPLE magazine: “I’m happy I lived the life that I lived because I have no regrets, but I was super ready to coach Little League, carve pumpkins on Halloween, read books and serve hot lunch on Wednesdays. Up until I turned 26, I spent all my time investing in my career.
“From 26 on, I’ve invested in me; my spirituality, my recovery, my marriage, my family. A lot of it has been, excuse me, f—ing hard. And no one has a perfect life… but I’m grateful for all of it.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jordan Peele has hinted that his next film could be his “favourite movie” if he makes it right.
The ‘Get Out’ director’s fourth outing behind the camera has been delayed by the Hollywood strikes but he explained that he is “psyched” to start production on the project later this year.
Speaking on the ‘Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend’ podcast, Jordan said: “This has been… obviously, it’s been an interesting year because the writer’s strike had had me in a state of listening, and that’s where I need to be.
“I do feel like my next project is very clear to me, and I’m psyched that I have another film that, you know, could be my favourite movie if I make it right.”
Peele has helmed the acclaimed horror films ‘Get Out’ and ‘Us’ and revealed that having a “grounded character” in his work is key to the success.
The 44-year-old filmmaker said: “Just like the comedy, the heightening, the pushing, the fantastical and the imagination, that becomes a certain type of project and exercise, but the exercise of grounding it is always what makes it work. That to me, in horror especially, is the hardest part.”
Jordan also explained why he would rather direct original movies than join money-spinning franchises.
He said: “Nothing is more rewarding than being able to lead the charge on something that comes from somewhere deep and to get the support of a team on something like that.
“I feel like if I were working off of someone else’s property, I would owe something to someone else. Besides that core piece of inspiration, it just doesn’t seem as fun to me… When faced with my very favourite properties, it still doesn’t beat the thing I haven’t written yet or the thing I haven’t figured out.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Steven Yeun has dropped out of ‘Thunderbolts’.
The 40-year-old actor’s involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film had been reported early last year (although his casting was never officially confirmed by Marvel) but he has now pulled out due to scheduling issues after a delay to production on the movie.
‘Thunderbolts’ had been set to begin filming last summer but was pushed back to this year by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which has ultimately led to Steven’s departure from the project.
The ‘Walking Dead’ star previously explained that joining the MCU wasn’t on his “bucket list” and the big appeal of the project was the opportunity to work with director Jake Schreier again after their collaboration on the TV series ‘Beef’.
Steven told Empire magazine: “I don’t know if it was explicitly on my bucket list. It was more the story, getting to work with Jake Schreier again, who directed ‘Beef’, and what his intentions were.”
Yeun – who had been due to feature in the blockbuster alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour and Sebastian Stan – was thought to have had a significant role and explained how film chiefs had a “very clear” idea about what they wanted from his character.
He said: “The intentions of this particular character that they wanted me to play were very clear, and that’s what drew me to the film.”
‘Thunderbolts’ is slated for release in July 2025 although little is known about the plot of the movie – but the comics revolve around a group of villains who are sent on missions commissioned by the government.

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