Harrison Ford REVEALS why he joined Marvel Cinematic Universe as General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt

'I’ve done a lot of things. I now want to do some of the things I haven’t done,' said Harrison Ford
PUBLISHED DEC 21, 2022
Harrison Ford attends the Premiere of 20th Century Studios' 'The Call of the Wild' (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Harrison Ford attends the Premiere of 20th Century Studios' 'The Call of the Wild' (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Harrison Ford has been the talk of the town recently as he joined the cast of '1923' which happens to be 'Yellowstone's prequel series on Paramount. Although, he is 80 years old but he has no plans of retiring anytime soon. However, the Academy award nominee has recently confessed why he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In October 2022, it was announced that Ford had been cast as General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross, a character formerly played by the late William Hurt. Ross is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's longest-running characters, having appeared in the very first film, 'The Incredible Hulk,' with four more appearances since then. Ford has been announced to appear in both 'Captain America: New World Order' and 'Thunderbolts,' and it's likely that he will also appear in more future projects. It is the thirty-fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the eleventh installment of Phase Five.

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In a recent interview with The Playlist, Ford confessed why he wants to join the MCU cast. He said, "Hey, look, I’ve done a lot of things. I now want to do some of the things I haven’t done."

Further he spoke about his recent Paramount project, '1923' which aired on Sunday, December 18, 2022. 

“To me, the quality of the work that they’ve been doing there is evident,” Ford said of joining the 'Yellowstone' universe. “So, my ambition to be part of that doesn’t seem to be, to me, too much of a stretch. We assume there’s this big difference between television and films. It’s really just the destination for it [that’s different]. There are great opportunities to tell complicated and ambitious stories on television, but it’s just where you show it. This has got very high-quality cinematography. This would play very well in a movie theater. But Taylor thinks of these things, not as television, but he thinks of them as one-hour movies, and we’re going to make eight or ten of them. So, there’s very high ambitions and standards.”
 

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