Not fairly the Avengers, assemble! Marvel’s newest superhero crew brings togethers the dangerous (ish) guys from throughout the MCU within the first trailer for Thunderbolts*. Watch it beneath.
Soundtracked by a contemporary “slowed-down-dramatic-remix-accented-by-action-beats” model of Pixies’ “The place Is My Thoughts,” the Thunderbolts* teaser trailer finds Yelena Belova aka Black Widow (Florence Pugh) adrift in a world of espionage. She seeks steerage from her super-soldier father, Alexei “Pink Guardian” Shostakov (David Harbour), however he appears as misplaced as she is — albeit way more at peace about it. However Belova doesn’t have time to do a lot soul-searching, as her subsequent mission places her in the identical room with a variety of Marvel villains: U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell, from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko, Black Widow), and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen, Ant-Man and the Wasp).
Actually, they’re all trapped in that room, together with a mysterious new character named… Bob (Lewis Pullman, who took the position after Steven Yeun sadly stepped away over scheduling conflicts.) Marvel Comics followers will acknowledge Bob as Sentry, one of many universe’s most over-powered characters. Realizing they’re being performed, they kind an uneasy alliance ultimately augmented by Bucky “The Winter Soldier” Barnes (Sebastian Stan). All these knives crossing appear to be the machinations of 1 Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, performed with villainous glee by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, because the items she’s been transferring within the background since Falcon/Winter Soldier lastly align.
Notably, Bucky and Valentine are launched whereas attending a gala at what appears like a Battle of New York (the climactic battle of Avengers) museum displaying. Maybe extra intriguing (and considerably associated?) is that large ol’ asterisk within the Thunderbolts* title; that’s not there accidentally. A fan concept? Valentine desires this crew to tackle the Avengers mantle vacated since Endgame, although this time underneath her personal management.
We’ll discover out what the masterplan is when Thunderbolts* hits theaters on Might 2nd, 2025. Within the meantime, checkout all of the associated Marvel Cinematic Universe content material on Disney+ (we advocate Black Widow and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a minimum of, and catching Captain America: Courageous New World when it hits theaters on February 14th, 2025). New Disney+ subscribers can get a 38% financial savings once they bundle with Hulu and Max.
Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier from a script penned by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo. Rachel Weisz (Melina Vostokoff) and Laurence Fishburne (Invoice Foster) are additionally rumored to reprise their MCU roles, whereas the Thunderbolts comedian books’ connection to Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, aka Pink Hulk, and Baron Helmut Zemo recommend each Harrison Ford and Daniel Brühl might make appearances as properly.
