'Thunderbolts*' Almost Did Taskmaster Justice — Almost

Editor's Note: The article below includes spoilers for 'Thunderbolts*'Not even a week after the release of Thunderbolts*, and we're already getting all the secrets behind one of Marvel’s most solid entries in years. This includes the supposed title change to The New Avengers and the expanded role that Olga Kurylenko’s Antonia Dreykov, a.k.a. Taskmaster, was intended to have. While the former is a fun way to entice the wider audience to go to theaters, the latter simply hurts. In an interview with Polygon, original scriptwriter Eric Pearson detailed the way Taskmaster’s story would have gone and how it would’ve made her role in Thunderbolts* bigger and funnier, in a bittersweet way.