Thunderbolts* Director & Cast Talk Big Asterisk Twist And What It Means For The MCU Moving Forward - Spoilers
In Thunderbolts*'s final act, the team is revealed as the McU's New Avengers, and that mysterious asterisk is finally given a meaning.
It won't have come as a surprise to most of you (it was rumoured to be "New Avengers" from pretty much the start), but it's still a huge moment that should have major ramifications as we head into Avengers: Doomsday.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, filmmaker Jake Schreier confirmed the big reveal was "in the script from the very first draft."
He continued, "Even though a lot of things, almost everything, changed around it. There was the core idea of these operatives sent to kill each other, which I thought was such a neat twist on people expecting Marvel's Suicide Squad. And then that was the ending, and it went to a very different place, but that was the one thing that was like, no matter what we do,...
It won't have come as a surprise to most of you (it was rumoured to be "New Avengers" from pretty much the start), but it's still a huge moment that should have major ramifications as we head into Avengers: Doomsday.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, filmmaker Jake Schreier confirmed the big reveal was "in the script from the very first draft."
He continued, "Even though a lot of things, almost everything, changed around it. There was the core idea of these operatives sent to kill each other, which I thought was such a neat twist on people expecting Marvel's Suicide Squad. And then that was the ending, and it went to a very different place, but that was the one thing that was like, no matter what we do,...
- 5/2/2025
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