Marvel’s Thunderbolts Comic-Con Footage Puts Together an Unorthodox Team

We’ve agelong known a fewer things astir Marvel’s Thunderbolts—or Thunderbolts*, if you’re sticking with the antihero team-up movie‘s circumstantial punctuation. Most importantly, we knew the formed and characters, due to the fact that astir person already appeared successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But we’ve yet to spot this caller pack together… until now.

Inside Hall H during Marvel’s large sheet tonight, the workplace shared the archetypal footage from the movie with fans, teasing the improbable enactment of this caller superteam.

Crickets chirp successful a wooded country with a fewer tiny homes. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) knocks connected a doorway and we spot that it’s Alexei’s (David Harbour) place. He thinks it’s DoorDash but erstwhile helium realizes it’s her, helium rapidly starts to cleanable things up. He opens the doorway and she says “Hi Dad.” He makes a clump of excuses for the messiness and lies astir down busy. Yelena asks them if he’s been doing good and is fulfilled. He lies and says yes.

She tells him she’s determination due to the fact that she thinks there’s thing incorrect with her. She feels similar she’s drifting and aimless. As she says that, we spot footage of Bucky (Sebastian Stan) walking into a courtroom, and of John Walker (Wyatt Russell) speechmaking an nonfiction astir him called “Fall of a Hero.” Apparently, she’s not the lone leader successful the MCU who feels that way. Yelena continues talking to Alexei and says to consciousness amended she’s been throwing herself into her work. Cut to her sidesplitting a clump of dudes successful a hallway.

The Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind,” starts playing arsenic Yelena works her mode down to immoderate concealed lair, littered with computers and papers. John Walker is already down determination and starts shooting astatine her. Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) is determination with a fewer different characters too. A large combat starts. Lewis Pullman’s quality past stumbles retired successful a infirmary gown. Yelena asks him who sent him and helium says “You were each sent?” Just then, each the doors slam unopen successful the room. It’s a trap. Red lights crook connected with a one-minute countdown.

Yelena explains that each of these characters person done atrocious things similar robbing the government, declaration kills, and more. “So?” says Walker. “Someone wants america gone,” she says.

A montage begins. We spot Allegra (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) walking into a enactment that had Marvel relics similar Loki’s scepter determination (at slightest that’s what it looked like). Pullman’s quality walks retired of a country and a radical of soldiers basal determination with guns. Yelena jumps disconnected a building. The words “CAREFUL WHO YOU ASSEMBLE” popular connected the screen.

We spot the radical from earlier each unneurotic successful an elevator, past entering Allegra’s office. “There are bully guys, and you’re atrocious guys,” she says. A fewer much enactment shots flip by, ending with Allegra saying, “But determination are worse guys.”

After the title, Thunderbolts* (emphasis connected the asterix), we spot a reddish limousine driving successful the desert. The radical is successful determination and Alexei is driving. “This has the making of a squad that tin rise to glory,” helium says. “That tin beryllium the heroes connected the Wheaties box.”  (Yelena interrupts: “I find it’s champion if you disregard him.”) “With a small kiddie toy,” helium adds.

Roll call! That’s Sebastian Stan arsenic Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh arsenic Yelena Belova, Hannah John-Kamen arsenic Ava Starr/Ghost, Wyatt Russell arsenic John Walker/U.S. Agent, Julia Louis-Dreyfus arsenic Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, David Harbour arsenic Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Olga Kurylenko arsenic Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman arsenic the Sentry, and Harrison Ford arsenic Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. And that’s not adjacent everyone appearing successful this MCU smorgasbord!

Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank, Paper Towns) directs what looks to beryllium a amusive onslaught of action; it’ll rampage into theaters May 5, 2025.

Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.

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