The Thunderbolts* assemble in the first trailer for the upcoming MCU outing. Thunderbolts* will now be the final movie in Phase Five of the Marvel franchise, and promises to end the phase with a bang as it brings together several antiheroes from the MCU’s past and sends them on a dangerous mission. Of course, a world without the Avengers doesn’t mean there’s not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they’re called the Thunderbolts. But its arguable exactly how “super” they really are…

You can check out the trailer for Thunderbolts* below.

Directed by Jake Schreier and written by Eric Pearson and Lee Sung Jin, the story will follow the titular group of heroes and antiheroes. The group is made up of plenty of familiar faces from this history of Marvel, including Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).

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The Marvel adventure will also add Top Gun: Maverick star Lewis Pullman to the franchise. The actor will star as Robert Reynolds, aka Sentry, a character who is often described as Marvel’s Superman and who manifests the personalities of both a hero and a villain.

Thunderbolts* Is Due to Land in Theaters in May 2025

Over the last few Marvel phases, there has been much debate about whether the franchise, and the superhero genre as a whole, is in its final days. Well, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier star Wyatt Russell certainly doesn’t think so. The actor, who will reprise the role of John Walker, aka U.S. Agent in Thunderbolts*, has promised that the upcoming team-up outing is far from “a straightforward Marvel movie” and declared that now is the time to make a good one.

“But it’s not a straightforward Marvel movie as you’ve seen in the past. I think that it’s gonna be a lot of fun but I think it will be something that hopefully Marvel fans will look at and go, ‘Oh OK, this is a little different, let’s go hard at it.’ And as far as how we are approaching it, it’s time to go to work a little bit, it’s time to make a good Marvel movie so let’s do that and work hard at it and don’t take things for granted.”

Thunderbolts* is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 5, 2025, as the last film of Phase Five of the MCU. Prior to this, Captain America: Brave New World will first bring the MCU back to the big screen (and hopefully ride on the box office success of Deadpool & Wolverine) on February 14, 2025.