The Big Picture David Harbour will next be seen on our screens in Gran Turismo, the adaptation of the legendary PlayStation game, which sees a young gamer placed onto the track for real to earn his stripes. But another upcoming project of his which is eagerly anticipated, is Creature Commandos. The series is an animated production from DC, and is set to be the first animated series within the new DCU timeline under the stewardship of James Gunn.
Harbour is no stranger to the rigors of working in the comic book/superhero genre. He played Alexei Shostakov/The Red Guardian, the Russian super-soldier counterpart to Steve Rogers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Black Widow as the adoptive father of Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff. He will reprise the role alongside Black Widow co-stars Florence Pugh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Olga Kurylenko in Thunderbolts, an ensemble movie from Marvel due for release next year.
His experience with Marvel meant he approached the project with eyes wide open, admitting he had spoken freely with Gunn about the prospect of being tied down to the same role for a long period of time, a contractual obligation which—to some actors—almost feels like some sort of imprisonment, preventing them from spreading their creative wings, and being bound to projects that sees them less than enthusiastic during the process, which is obvious to audiences when the finished product is...
"They Don't Lock You In Any More" However, digging into the lore of the story, and his character in particular, left Harbour enraptured and enamoured by the prospect of being able to take this character forward with him over the next decade, should he choose to do so. An added bonus was the lack of contractual obligation he had been so wary of, noting that even Marvel had learned their lesson from tying down stars to multi-picture deals with diminishing returns.