Someone is attempting to kill Marvel's antiheroes. Can they work with one another as an alternative of beating the heck out of one another to outlive?
Thunderbolts* (a curious asterisk included in that official title) will get an prolonged trailer debut Monday that runs a bit longer than your common film preview. The footage digs into how the likes of Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan's Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes, Wyatt Russell's John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen's Ava Starr/Ghost, David Harbour's Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov, and Olga Kurylenko's Taskmaster all come to seek out one another.
Apparently, somebody desires them out of the image. Yelena (nonetheless reeling from the lack of her sister, Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff) theorizes they're all an excessive amount of of a legal responsibility, having every been concerned in some form of shady operation previously. “Everyone here has done bad things: shadow ops, robbing government labs, contract kills,” she says. “So someone wants us gone.”
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With everybody down on their luck, a lot of the crew are lured to a secret facility, the place every assumes the others try to kill them. So their first introduction as a gaggle is combating themselves…
Until they notice they don't seem to be alone. A person named Bob (Lewis Pullman's thriller position who has lengthy been rumored to be the comic-book character Sentry) can also be within the room. (At the very least, we all know he is bulletproof.) Then the vibe instantly adjustments.
“We're brought up with this belief that there are good guys and there are bad guys,” says Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Val for brief), who's like a darkish twist on Nick Fury. “But eventually you come to realize that there are bad guys and there are worse guys and no one else.”
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The Thunderbolts* trailer options some much less foreboding moments, as nicely, akin to Stan's Bucky taking his vibranium arm out of the dishwasher, Yelena and Alexei having an uncomfortable father-daughter reunion after the occasions of Black Widow, and basic hijinks that ensue while you get somebody like John Walker in the identical car because the Red Guardian whereas they're being chased by the Winter Soldier.
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“David and I, in the first movie, as much as we possibly could, squeezed as much as we could out of the time that we had together,” Pugh beforehand instructed Entertainment Weekly at Comic-Con of the Yelena-Aleksei relationship. “Knowing that we were both coming back to do any version of a second movie, there was no way that we couldn’t jump into it further and go where these people are in the state of their lives right now.”
Thunderbolts*, directed by Jake Schreier, opens in theaters May 2, 2025. Watch the trailer above.
