Following the earlier rumor, it’s now said Lewis Pullman is indeed playing The Sentry in Marvel’s Thunderbolts, which follows the news that Geraldine Viswanathan is replacing Ayo Edebiri in the movie.
The info comes via Deadline who says, “Viswanathan is the second recent addition after the film added Lewis Pullman to step in for Steven Yeun, who departed for similar scheduling reasons as Edebiri.”
According to the report, Ayo Edebiri couldn’t do Thunderbolts because of the strikes pushing back the start of production.
Geraldine Viswanathan is known for Miracle Workers, Three Busy Debras, Blockers, and Janet King. The role in Thunderbolts is said to be for the assistant to Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
Lewis Pullman is known for the Outer Range TV series, Lessons in Chemistry which stars Brie Larson, and the actor recently played Lt. Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd in Top Gun: Maverick.
Geraldine Viswanathan:
About a bunch of losers?
Leaked info describes the film as a movie about a bunch of losers that band together to form a makeshift family. Wyatt Russell also said “it’s not a straightforward Marvel movie as you’ve seen in the past.”
The movie is due to start filming within the next few months and gets released July 25, 2025 directed by Jake Schreier.
Thunderbolts stars Florence Pugh stars as Yelena, the new Black Widow; Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier; Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent; Olga Kurilenko as Taskmaster; David Harbour as Red Guardian, and Hannah John-Kamen returns as Ghost, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Harrison Ford is also rumored as Red Hulk from Captain America: Brave New World.
