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When Marvel Studios initially introduced Thunderbolts * at 2022’s San Diego Comic-Con as component of its ambitious lineup for Phase 5 and 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise business, the flick really did not yet have that weird asterisk in the title. It really did not featured lots of information, either, besides a July 26, 2024 launch day that moved together with lots of various other MCU tasks following the 2023 WGA strike.
In the wake of the Thunderbolts * sector of 2024’s San Diego Comic-Con, we do not recognize far more! The asterisk is still a secret: Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said at a CinemaCon appearance, “we won’t talk more about that until after the movie comes out,” and verified it once again at Comic-Con
But as the core actors of Thunderbolts * took the phase, the Hall H target market was dealt with to an intro in which all their personalities came under attack from a mystical opponent that, according to Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, desires them all dead.
Traditionally in Marvel Comics, the Thunderbolts are a team-up of inferior bad guys or anti-heroes, though their membership and motives vary significantly depending which version you’re speaking about. The MCU group is developed of not-exactly-always-good personalities presented in previous movies in the franchise business: Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen, of Ant-Man and the Wasp), Red Guardian (David Harbour, Black Widow), the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan, the Captain America films), UNITED STATE Agent, also known as John Walker (Wyatt Russell, Falcon and the Winter Soldier), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko, Black Widow). Pugh’s Yelena, from Black Widow and Hawkeye, leads the group, with slimy mastermind Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Falcon and the Winter Soldier) behind the scenes.
Who might desire all those people dead? What might those people do to survive? And what the hell is that asterisk concerning nevertheless? We’ll need to wait on the staged launching of Thunderbolts * on May 2, 2025, as the last flick in the MCU’s Phase 5.
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