{"id":609032,"date":"2025-12-03T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:52:14","slug":"mcu-star-addresses-potential-return-of-the-villain-who-set-up-avengers-doomsday-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609032\/","title":{"rendered":"MCU Star Addresses Potential Return Of The Villain Who Set Up Avengers: Doomsday (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the biggest shocks of the MCU<\/a>\u2018s post-Endgame period, Tim Blake Nelson was announced to return as Samuel Sterns \u2013 AKA The Leader \u2013 in this year\u2019s Captain America: Brave New World<\/a>. The smart money would have been on him returning for a Hulk movie, but that perhaps would have been too obvious. Instead, Nelson played the not-so-secret villain of the piece who would also go on to herald the events of Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>. Again, surprise was the name of the game.<\/p>\n

And now Nelson has written a novel \u2013 his second \u2013 on the subject of making superhero movies. He spoke to ComicBook\u2019s Chris Killian to discuss his latest release, Superhero: A Novel, which takes the actor\u2019s own experiences working on major Hollywood productions (and superhero adaptations, of course). Naturally, the question of The Leader\u2019s future came up, given how important (if somewhat unexpected), a role he played in setting in Doom\u2019s arrival. And while he didn\u2019t confirm whether he\u2019d be back in Doomsday, Nelson did express his enthusiasm for a second return to the character:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that if I have my way, they won\u2019t have to wait 16 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why The MCU Needs To Bring The Leader Back<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

The most interesting part of Captain America: Brave New World\u2018s post-credits scene<\/a> was The Leader\u2019s chilling warning that Earth was going to face a reckoning when the heroes were forced to defend it against \u201cthe others.\u201d The explanation in the scene suggests Sterns saw the coming storm \u201cin the probabilities\u201d, and the value of that prophecy should, by rights, see The Leader return as an asset. Even if he\u2019s briefly involved, the Avengers turning to Sam\u2019s enemy to find out more about the excursions on a theoretical level could well make a lot of sense. <\/p>\n

Tim Blake Nelson Discusses Making His Novel Into A Movie<\/p>\n

\"Tim<\/p>\n

Nelson\u2019s experience on set is obviously invaluable to painting a picture inside the machine, as it were, and he has previously revealed that being recast as The Leader during the writing process allowed him to do 2 months of intensive paid research. But what of the chances to bring Superhero: A Novel to the screen, in the vein of Seth Rogen\u2019s The Studio or HBO\u2019s The Franchise?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I, or somebody else, figured out how to tell that story where it can only be a movie. I mean, I think form is content and so, when you switch media, you have to find the moviness of the movie\u2026 Superhero has to be a novel in its current form, because it\u2019s taking advantage \u2013 I hope anyway \u2013 of everything a novel can do to explore its subject matter. You get inside the heads of characters, chapter to chapter, with alternating points of view, often surrounding the same events, and you learn what people are thinking in a very reliable way.<\/p>\n

In movies and plays, and television shows, you don\u2019t get inside of a character\u2019s head; you only see what they do, and you hear what they say. And that\u2019s often there to mask what\u2019s really going on inside their heads. And so, that\u2019s what makes theater and film and television interesting is watching people disassemble like human beings do. Whereas what I think makes novels really interesting is that you see characters acting in certain ways and saying certain things, but then you also get the benefit of the truth that\u2019s inside their heads. In the movie version, you\u2019d almost kind of want to figure out how to do the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given how eloquently he talks, it\u2019s no surprise that Superhero: A Novel is an engaging read, and having the intelligent actor back in the MCU would be to the benefit of the franchise. For now, we\u2019ll have to wait and see. Superhero is available to buy now from Unnamed Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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