One of the biggest talking points of Captain America: Brave New World, if you discount the transformation of Harrison Ford into Red Hulk…or the discovery of Adamantium on Celestial Island, is the return of Tim Blake Nelson as Samuel Sterns some 17 years after he was last seen being contaminated with gamma radiation in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. But his appearance in the movie as The Leader brought a very different rendition of the character than some fans expected, and now director Julius Onah has explained in an interview with Variety exactly why the classic “egg-head” of the comic books had to be changed for the MCU.
The Leader’s appearance in ‘Captain America 4’ is not what many people expected, but it was a necessary change. Read More