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The MCU’s own Suicide Squad assembles in the Thunderbolts’ latest trailer

A group of antiheroes stand in an elevator.
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The bad guys take center stage in the first teaser trailer for Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*.

“Everyone here has done bad things,” Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova/Black Widow says as she comes to blows with several of Marvel’s antiheroes. This includes John Walker/U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and a mysterious character named Bob (Lewis Pullman), who is believed to be Sentry. These five, along with Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), are forced to team up by the American government and work on a dangerous mission.

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The mastermind behind this is Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the director of the CIA. “There are bad guys, and there are worse guys. And nothing else,” de Fontaine tells the group when they gather before her.

Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* | Teaser Trailer | Only In Theaters May 2025

Based on the comic series by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier and written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo. Schreier, Lee, and Calo collaborated on Netflix’s Emmy-winning series Beef. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is the producer on Thunderbolts*.

Thunderbolts* will be the first movie in the MCU since Deadpool & Wolverine, which was released in July and opened to an R-rated-movie record of $211 million at the domestic box office.

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Thunderbolts* is the first of four scheduled MCU movies in 2025. The first, Captain America: Brave New World, opens on February 14, 2025. The third film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, comes out later in the summer on July 25, 2025. Finally, Blade, the long-awaited solo movie starring Mahershala Ali in the titular role, releases on November 7, 2025.

Thunderbolts* is scheduled for a theatrical release on May 2, 2025.

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