Entertainment Spotlight: Marvel's Thunderbolts Trailer Revealed

Marvel's Thunderbolts Trailer Overview

If you’re not the type of sicko who hunts down the leaked, illicitly recorded trailers from San Diego Comic-Con or Disney’s D23, good news: Your first look at Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts is here. And if you have no idea what a Thunderbolt is—or why there’s an asterisk there—I can answer part of that: It’s kind of Marvel’s version of the Suicide Squad, a collection of former heroes and former villains assembled to handle a super-powered threat.

Teaser Trailer Highlights

The first (very fun) teaser trailer, which runs for a generous three minutes, reveals that Yelena Belova/White Widow (Florence Pugh) reunites with father figure Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian. The trailer introduces U.S. Agent/John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost/Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), Taskmaster/Antonia Dreykov (Olga Kurylenko), and Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) forming an Avengers-like team.

The Mysterious Threat

• The antagonist might be Bob (Lewis Pullman).
• Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) could play a significant role.
• While we don’t know Bob's true identity yet, he is one of Marvel Comics' most powerful superheroes.

De Fontaine has been covertly assembling this group of castoffs and misfits over the past few years, as seen in Marvel Cinematic Universe fare like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Black Widow. Now she’s getting the whole gang together to handle the worst kind of bad guy.

Exciting Future for Marvel

Marvel’s Thunderbolts is directed by Jake Schreier and features a talented writing team including Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo. Given that many of these creators also helped produce the fantastic TV series Beef, there are high hopes for this project.

Mark your calendars: Thunderbolts hits movie theaters in May 2025!