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Thunderbolts* is a 2025 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the team Thunderbolts. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, and stars an ensemble cast featuring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In the film, a group of antiheroes are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission.

Marvel Studios first teased the formation of a Thunderbolts team within the MCU in 2021. The film was revealed to be in development in June 2022, when Schreier and Pearson were attached. The main cast was revealed in September, with additional casting through early 2023. Lee Sung Jin joined to rewrite the script by March 2023, one of several creatives who returned to work with Schreier from the Netflix series Beef (2023–present). Production was delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, causing some cast changes in early 2024. Calo joined by then for further rewrites. Filming took place from February to June 2024 at Trilith Studios and Atlanta Metro Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and also on location in Utah and Kuala Lumpur.

Thunderbolts* premiered on April 22, 2025, at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, and was released in the United States on May 2, as the final film of Phase Five of the MCU. The film’s ending reveals that the Thunderbolts team is rebranded as the “New Avengers”, with the end credits revealing the asterisk in the film’s title stands for The New Avengers; following the film’s opening weekend, Marvel Studios began marketing it with that title. Despite positive reviews from critics, Thunderbolts* has underperformed at the box office, grossing $382 million against a production budget of $180 million, though it became the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2025.

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STORY

In Malaysia, Yelena Belova destroys a laboratory on behalf of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who is desperately cleaning up evidence of her involvement with the O.X.E. Group’s “Sentry” superhuman project. As de Fontaine faces imminent impeachment for her work with O.X.E. Group, she separately dispatches mercenaries Yelena, John Walker, Ava Starr, and Antonia Dreykov to a covert O.X.E. facility to kill each other. In the ensuing fight, Ava kills Antonia, and an amnesiac man named Bob is released from a suspended animation pod in the room. After realizing that they were sent by de Fontaine to be incinerated along with any evidence of her misconduct, they work together to escape from the trap. Upon coming into physical contact with Bob, Yelena and Walker briefly experience visions of some of their worst memories.

De Fontaine learns that the group has survived and that Bob was a presumed-dead volunteer in the Sentry trials. When she arrives at the site, Bob creates a diversion by drawing enemy fire, allowing Yelena, Walker, and Ava to escape. Bob sustains no injuries upon being shot, then uncontrollably ascends into the air before crash-landing back at the compound, where he is captured and transported to the former Avengers Tower in Manhattan, now renamed the “Watchtower”. De Fontaine intends to introduce Bob to the press as a super-powered protector akin to the Avengers, hoping the PR stunt will avert her impeachment. Meanwhile, Alexei Shostakov, who had overheard details of de Fontaine’s plot while working as a freelance chauffeur, rescues Yelena, Walker, and Ava. Alexei refers to the group as the “Thunderbolts”, in reference to a soccer team Yelena played on in her childhood.

De Fontaine’s agents pursue the Thunderbolts before they are ultimately apprehended by Congressman Bucky Barnes, who intends to have them testify in the impeachment proceedings. Upon learning that Bob was a subject of one of de Fontaine’s top-secret experiments, Barnes joins the group to head to New York to infiltrate the Watchtower. The Thunderbolts discover that de Fontaine has convinced Bob to join her side. Under de Fontaine’s orders, Bob easily overpowers the Thunderbolts but allows them to retreat, deeming them no longer a threat. Bob develops a god-like delusion of superiority and turns on de Fontaine, whose assistant Mel incapacitates Bob with a failsafe kill switch. This triggers the emergence of the Void, Bob’s destructive alter ego and the embodiment of his depression and insecurities created as a result of the procedure and his already fractured psyche, who begins engulfing New York City in supernatural darkness, trapping its citizens in pocket dimensions.

Realizing the only way to stop the Void is from within, Yelena enters the darkness to reach Bob’s consciousness. There, she faces her haunted past as a Black Widow and finds Bob hiding in a recreation of his childhood bedroom, where he hid from his father’s abuse. The other Thunderbolts join them, and together they travel back to the memory of Bob’s initial experimentation in Malaysia, where he volunteered for the procedure, hoping to improve himself after becoming an aimless drug addict. The Thunderbolts confront the Void, but are swiftly overpowered. As the struggle threatens to fully consume Bob, the team intervenes, affirming their belief in him. Their solidarity empowers Bob to regain control, overcoming the Void as light returns to the city and the victims are freed.

With the threat neutralized, the Thunderbolts prepare to apprehend de Fontaine, but she manipulates public perception by staging a press conference in which she introduces them to the public as the New Avengers, while crediting herself. The Thunderbolts go along, but Yelena quietly tells de Fontaine, “we own you now”. In a post-credits scene, the New Avengers and Bob discuss the recent feud with Sam Wilson over the Avengers and to sue the team for trademark infringement, along with an ongoing problem in outer space, when they receive a distress signal from an extra-dimensional spacecraft with a large “4” emblem.

CAST

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova:
A member of the Thunderbolts who was trained in the Red Room as a Black Widow assassin. Pugh said the character has been affected by the traumatic events of recent Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) projects, including the death of her adoptive sister Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in the film Avengers: Endgame (2019). Co-writer Eric Pearson explained that while the loss of Romanoff was addressed, there was not more looking to the past to “push forward” to give Belova a “big leadership role moving forward”. Pugh was shocked by the reveal that the Thunderbolts would be known as the New Avengers, and believed Belova being a part of that team was “probably keeping her alive”, giving her purpose with a family unit that relied on her and “allowed her to feel loved again”. Violet McGraw reprises her role as a young Yelena from the film Black Widow (2021).
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier:
An enhanced super soldier with a cybernetic arm who is the de facto leader of the Thunderbolts. Presumed killed in action during World War II, he reemerged in the present day as a brainwashed assassin before his programming was removed, and has since been elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives. Pearson said Barnes was originally written to be “kind of a [political] lobbyist” who helped politicians “propagandize”, making it seem as though the character had fallen from grace until it is revealed that he was doing that to investigate de Fontaine. After Pearson finished his work on the film, Feige suggested that Barnes should be a congressman instead. Stan compared Barnes to Jack Nicholson’s character Randle McMurphy in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), saying they were both coming into a chaotic and degenerate group whose members need to be united.
Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent:
An enhanced super soldier and member of the Thunderbolts. He is a former decorated Captain of the U.S. Army Rangers who was chosen by the U.S. government to become Steve Rogers’s successor as Captain America before receiving an other than honorable discharge in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021).
Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster:
An assassin with photographic reflexes that allow her to mimic opponents’ fighting styles. She was formerly controlled by her father, Dreykov, to complete missions for the Red Room before being freed by Romanoff in Black Widow.
Lewis Pullman as Robert “Bob” Reynolds / Sentry / Void:
A superpowered individual suffering from amnesia who is believed to be stronger than all of the Avengers combined. As the Void, a version of Sentry completely shrouded in shadows, he is invincible, spreads darkness, and can turn people into shadows, sending them to a dimension of his own creation where they experience their worst fears and memories. Bob’s mental health character arc was based on the experiences of a friend of director Jake Schreier. Due to having recently played LT Robert “Bob” Floyd in the film Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Pullman asked Schreier upon signing on for the role if the character could be referred to by his first name instead of “Bob” to avoid repetition, but the filmmaker explained its respect to the source material; Pullman ultimately gained fondness of the name.
Geraldine Viswanathan as Mel:
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine’s assistant. Mel was in high school when the Avengers first assembled in the film The Avengers (2012). Viswanathan related to Mel’s inner struggle with her moral compass, specifically “her optimism in entering the workforce, how your idealism can get challenged, and how it can be more difficult than you think to be a force of good in the world.”
Chris Bauer as Holt: A security officer for O.X.E. Group
Wendell Pierce as Gary: A Congressman who is resolute on impeaching de Fontaine.
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian:
A member of the Thunderbolts who is the Russian super soldier counterpart to Captain America and a father-figure to Belova. Harbour said the film further explores the complex relationship between Shostakov and Belova that was introduced in Black Widow. He noted that Belova cannot stand Shostakov, but she needs someone to help her feel complete, and Shostakov fills that role.
Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost:
A member of the Thunderbolts who can phase through objects. John-Kamen said the film shows a different side of the character following her introduction in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), with Ghost no longer in a constant state of molecular disequilibrium and able to control her powers with calmness and decisiveness.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine:
A contessa and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who brings together the members of the Thunderbolts. The film establishes de Fontaine as the one who bought Avengers Tower, now referred to as the “Watchtower”, from Tony Stark in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Louis-Dreyfus described de Fontaine as someone who is “after power, control, and just generally she wants to kick ass in the Marvel Universe”. She added that the loss of power was her greatest weakness, saying, “She doesn’t realize, number one, she doesn’t have it, and number two, she doesn’t necessarily need it. But for her, the loss of power is a devastating notion and unacceptable.” Louis-Dreyfus felt it was a “very happy surprise” exploring de Fontaine’s backstory in the film, during an encounter with the Void, where she relives witnessing her father’s death, hence giving an understanding to where she came from. She felt de Fontaine was an “open wound” during that moment and had no control over it. Chiara Stella portrays a young Valentina during a flashback sequence.

PRODUCTION

Development

During the production of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), director James Gunn expressed interest in making a film based on the Marvel Comics team Thunderbolts, a group of “anti-heroes and super-criminals”. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said this was a possibility based on the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. By May 2021, Gunn was no longer interested in the idea after directing the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film The Suicide Squad (2021), because that team from DC Comics is based on a similar concept to the Thunderbolts. In June 2018, Hannah John-Kamen expressed enthusiasm for reprising her role as Ava Starr / Ghost from the MCU film Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) in a potential Thunderbolts film, considering the comics version of Ghost is a member of the team.

Speculation that a Thunderbolts team would be introduced to the MCU began in mid-2019 following the announcement that Daniel Brühl would appear as Helmut Zemo in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), reprising his role from the MCU film Captain America: Civil War (2016). That series introduced Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and shows her recruiting Wyatt Russell’s John Walker / U.S. Agent. De Fontaine is also shown to be working with Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova in the post-credits scene of the MCU film Black Widow (2021). Commentators speculated that she is recruiting a team of villains or antiheroes like the Thunderbolts, and some felt that team could appear in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Executive producer Nate Moore said the Thunderbolts were never considered for the project because they would “cloud the story” and take away from other aspects of the series. Head writer Malcolm Spellman said there was “a lot of chatter” around the team’s potential introduction to the MCU and added, “I don’t know if fans are crazy or not”.