During Disney’s D23 presentation, a first look at Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* was shown as we saw Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. The film will come out on May 2, 2025.
The upcoming Thunderbolts* movie marks Pugh’s third appearance as Yelena Belova in the MCU, after three years since being introduced as Natasha’s adoptive younger sister in the Scarlett Johansson-led Black Widow movie. Afterward, she had a recurring appearance in Disney+’s Hawkeye series, where she hoped to avenge her sister’s death in Avengers: Endgame by trying to kill Jeremy Renner’s titular Avenger.
Check out the Thunderbolts* Yelena image below:
Who else is in Thunderbolts*?
The film also stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Red Guardian, Sebastian Stan (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Wyatt Russell (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) as John Walker/ US Agent, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man & The Wasp) as Ava Starr/Ghost, Olga Kurylenko (Hitman) as Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick) as Sentry, Geraldine Viswanathan (Miracle Workers). and more.
Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay written by Lee Sung Jin, based on the first draft by Eric Pearson. Schreier and Jin previously worked together in Netflix’s Beef series. It will center around a team of mostly supervillains and antiheroes. In a previous interview, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige assured fans that the asterisk at the end of the project title has a purpose, which will be revealed after the movie comes out.
