{"id":11035,"date":"2014-01-15T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:22:09","slug":"thomas-kretschmann-is-officially-baron-strucker-in-avengers-age-of-ultron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11035","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Kretschmann is officially Baron Strucker in Avengers: Age of Ultron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Close-Up-thomas-kretschmann-29940667-882-991.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11036\" alt=\"Close-Up-thomas-kretschmann-29940667-882-991\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Close-Up-thomas-kretschmann-29940667-882-991.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For a while now, there has been a lot of speculation about who would be playing the infamous Baron Von Strucker in the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Since the initial report indicating that he would be in the film arouse, many have wondered who would be playing this legendary Captain America villain, and now thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/dracula-actor-play-villain-avengers-671132\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u00a0we now know that Thomas Kretschmann has been cast as\u00a0Baron Wolfgang von Strucker\u00a0in the upcoming\u00a0<strong>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While not much else was confirmed about the role, they do indicate that it is a multi-picture contract, and some rumors are even flying that the Baron will have a cameo in Captain America: The Winter Solider, which is currently filming re-shoots as we speak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/strong>\u00a0hits theaters on May 1, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFor a while now, there has been a lot of speculation about who would be playing the infamous Baron Von&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Thomas Kretschmann is officially Baron Strucker in Avengers: Age of Ultron&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-featured","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Kretschmann is officially Baron Strucker in Avengers: Age of Ultron - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11035\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Kretschmann is officially Baron Strucker in Avengers: Age of Ultron - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For a while now, there has been a lot of speculation about who would be playing the infamous Baron Von&hellip; 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