WWE’s Seth Rollins Opens Up on Captain America 4 Reshoots

If you were going into adjacent month’s Captain America: Brave New World hoping to spot Anthony Mackie duke it retired with Seth Rollins, the WWE wrestler said you should permission your expectations astatine the summons buying app.

In a caller interrogation with Chris Van Vilet, Rollins said helium wouldn’t look successful the film. Back successful 2023, helium was shown connected set, starring fans to speculate helium was playing a subordinate of the Serpent Society. Marvel ne'er formally confirmed his casting, and Rollins was vague astir who he’d person been. Uncertain astir his NDA, each helium could accidental was Brave New World’s script “went done a batch of rewrites and reshoots. […] Essentially my relation got either repurposed oregon wholly erased.” He besides auditioned to popular into different role, oregon a imaginable “repurposing” of his archetypal part, but neither enactment panned out.

“I volition unequivocally accidental I americium not successful the film,” helium continued. Rollins was really very insistent connected letting his fans down, and told Van Vilet helium didn’t privation fansto deliberation he’s pulling an Andrew Garfield. “I don’t privation those radical to discarded their time, and I don’t privation to misinform anybody. […] “They ended up going successful a antithetic absorption with it. Marvel knows they’ve got a finished merchandise that hopefully they’re blessed with, and hopefully it’s successful. But [Brave New World] volition beryllium sans Seth Rollins. Marvel does a large job, it should beryllium a bully one.”

Outside of nixing Rollins’ part, Brave New World’s troubled accumulation has been reasonably well-known. Its merchandise day has been shuffled around a fewer times, and its accumulation was paused erstwhile the Hollywood strikes started. After those ended, the movie underwent aggregate reshoots and rewrites, allegedly owed to antagonistic trial screenings. Initial reports claimed 3 “major sequences” were chopped successful the reshoots, but Anthony Mackie’s since described them arsenic conscionable “a fewer much scenes.”

This isn’t the archetypal Marvel movie to person its reshoots known, but its misfortunes (and the taste inheritance astir Sabra, 1 of its cardinal supporting characters) person hovered astir the movie longer than normal. We’ll spot however Captain America: Brave New World ultimately fares erstwhile it hits theaters connected Valentine’s Day.

[via IGN]

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