Disney’s D23 Expo is in full swing, and during today’s Marvel panel, they revealed the main team and cast of their upcoming “Thunderbolts” movie, due in 2024. Directed by Jake Schreier, “Thunderbolts” is expected to be a team in place of the Avengers. With no organized superhero team on Earth, the government takes matters into its own hands and creates its own super-power team.
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At D23, Marvel chief Kevin Feige announced the team includes the previously revealed Florence Pugh, who plays Yelena, the new Black Widow; Sebastian Stan as Buck Barnes the Winder Soldier; David Harbour as the Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent; Hannah John-Kamen, who plays Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as the Taskmaster, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus playing Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
All of these characters have appeared as supporting members in other films before, Pugh, Harbour, Kurylenko in “Black Widow,” Stan, Russell, and Louis-Dreyfus in “Falcon And The Winter Solider,” and given the more grounded tone of those films, we should probably expect something more similarly grounded, militaristic and perhaps not like DC’s “The Suicide Squad,” which Thunderbolts has been likened to in the past many times.
Marvel didn’t reveal whether expected members like Daniel Bruhl’s Baron Von Zemo or Emily VanCamp’s Sharon Carter, aka The Power Broker, will appear in the film, but given how closely tied both characters were to the events of the obviously essential storyline in “The Falcon And The Winter Solider,” it would not surprise if either or both characters appear.
Screenwriter Eric Pearson (“Black Widow”) is penning the script, which probably explains the grounded nature of the team, and production is expected to begin in the summer of 2023. “The Thunderbolts” movie will be the final installment of Phase Five and is set to release on July 26, 2024.
