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Marvel's Thunderbolts (2025)

Marvel's Thunderbolts is a superhero movie based on the comic team of the same name. The movie acts as a part of the MCU's fifth phase of films. The film sees the likes of Bucky Barnes, Yelena Belova, Wyatt Russell, the Red Guardian, and more as an unlikely group of heroes and villains brought together to fight for good.

Marvel's Thunderbolts
Not Yet Rated
Adventure
Action

Director
Jake Schreier
Release Date
July 25, 2025
Studio(s)
Marvel Studios
Distributor(s)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Cast
Sebastian Stan , Wyatt Russell , Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Tim Roth , Daniel Brühl , Florence Pugh , David Harbour , Olga Kurylenko , Harrison Ford
Writers
Lee Sung Jin
Budget
$200 million

Summary

There is little known about Marvel's Thunderbolts other than it will start as a group of current and former villains that will team up and conduct operations under the orders of the United States Government. General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross ran the original team. The rumored cast currently includes characters such as Yelena Belova and Taskmaster of Black Widow fame, Baron Zemo, Ghost, The Abomination, U.S. Agent, and potentially Bucky Barnes, A.K.A. the Winter Soldier.

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