“Thunderbolts”: Marvel’s Wild Card Mixes Antiheroes and Indie Talent From A24 & More

Recently, Florence Pugh, one of the stars of Marvel’s upcoming antihero epic Thunderbolts, said the Marvel Cinematic Universe installment was very unlike your average MCU addition. In fact, Pugh told Empire that Thunderbolts feels much more like an indie film. “It ended up becoming this quite badass indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes,” Pugh told Empire.  This ...

By The Credits  |  March 11, 2025
The Bad Guys Assemble in Meaty “Thunderbolts” Super Bowl Trailer

Marvel’s antiheroes unleashed a new trailer during Sunday night’s Super Bowl (in which the Philadelphia Eagles decimated the Kansas City Chiefs). The Super Bowl trailer for Marvel’s Thunderbolts is set to Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” with Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova/Black Widow feeling a lot less confident then we’ve seen her in the past. In ...

By The Credits  |  February 10, 2025
Super Bowl Trailers: Marvel’s “Thunderbolts,” “Jurassic World: Rebirth” and Tom Cruise’s Latest “Mission: Impossible” Expected

The Super Bowl is the most-watched television broadcast in the United States every year. In 2024, the Kansas City Chiefs clash with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII (58 for the Roman numeral illiterate) drew an average of 123.7 million viewers across linear and streaming services in the U.S. alone. The big game ...

By The Credits  |  January 30, 2025
Marvel Reveals First “Thunderbolts” Trailer Unleashes the Bad Guys on the Worse Guys

We now have our first peek at Marvel Studios’ upcoming antihero team-up movie Thunderbolts. The trailer opens with a family reunion—former Black Widow and all-around butt-kicker Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) arrives at the door of her father, Alexia Shostakov (David Harbour), better known as the Red Guardian. The last time we saw these two together was ...

By The Credits  |  September 23, 2024
Florence Pugh Plays By Her Own Rules in Set Video From Marvel’s “Thunderbolts”

Florence Pugh was very much in character as the Black Widow Yelena Belova when she broke the rules (lightly, and with panache) to show us a bit of the set for Marvel Studios’ upcoming antihero team-up movie Thunderbolts. Pugh is reprising the role that she first took on in the MCU’s standalone Black Widow, playing Scarlett Johansson’s estranged ...

By The Credits  |  March 28, 2024
Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” Eyeing “Top Gun: Maverick” Star Lewis Pullman for Big Role

From the cockpit of Top Gun: Maverick and the laboratories in Lessons in Chemistry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe—Lewis Pullman is having quite the ride. The rising star is now Marvel Studios’ top choice to replace Steven Yeun in the role of the antihero Sentry in their upcoming antihero film Thunderbolts. Pullman would be joining a starry cast that includes ...

By The Credits  |  January 26, 2024
Steven Yeun Joins the Cast of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts”

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has just nabbed another Oscar-nominee. Steven Yeun will join the antihero epic Thunderbolts for Marvel Studios, The Hollywood Reporter scoops, in a juicy yet unspecified role. Yeun was nominated for an Oscar for his outstanding work in writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, played a key role in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror Nope, and will star in Parasite director Bong ...

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2023
Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” Gets Boost With Addition of “The Bear” Star Ayo Edebiri

Marvel Studios just added an ace actor to their ever-expanding universe. Ayo Edebiri, who broke out with her fantastic performance in Hulu’s critically acclaimed The Bear, is now entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe in one of the biggest and most mysterious of their upcoming films. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Edebiri will join Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and ...

By The Credits  |  January 27, 2023
David Harbour Teases Marvel’s Mysterious Phase 5 Capper “Thunderbolts”

David Harbour is set to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the Red Guardian, so the man knows what he’s talking about when he starts dishing on one of the most mysterious upcoming MCU films. Harbour is reprising his lovable Soviet antihero from Black Widow for Thunderbolts, the mysterious Phase 5 capper that Kevin Feige teased during San ...

By The Credits  |  November 15, 2022
Marvel’s Top-Secret “Thunderbolts” Movie Picks Jake Schreier to Direct

Deadline has a big scoop from the Marvel Cinematic Universe—Marvel Studios’ top-secret Thunderbolts movie now has a director. Jake Schreier, helmer of the 2013 Sundance hit Robot & Frank and 2015’s Paper Towns has been chosen to lead what could be a massive team-up movie, think Avengers only the central characters are villains (or at least antiheroes). ...

By The Credits  |  June 10, 2022