Don’t worry, darling — Florence Pugh isn’t going anywhere. She’s already booked her next Marvel project with the all-star movie ThunderboltsAssoc. Sebastian StanAnd more familiar faces.
The superhero studio confirmed that Pugh will be the star of the 2024 movie at D23 Expo in Anaheim in California in September. Pugh will play Yelena Belova (the little sister of) again. Scarlett Johansson‘s Natasha Romanoff and an assassin from Russia’s Black Widow program.
“I am so gutted that I’m not there in person to say hi, but I am unbelievably excited to be joining this cast,” Pugh told the audience at D23 in a pre-recorded video. Pugh was busy working on the set of DuneShe was in Europe, but her costars were able to join the Disney convention.
Thunderbolts’ plot is largely unknown, but the Marvel comics team was a Suicide SquadA group of super villains who have teamed up. The movie features fewer villainous top-level characters and focuses more on characters who can choose between good or bad.
Pugh will be surrounded by her fellow colleagues Black WidowStars Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster (an assassin who can mirror anyone’s fighting skills), David Harbour as Red Guardian (Russia’s Captain America knockoff) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as La Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (A.K.A. Val, a mysterious woman who has a lot of money. They aren’t isn’t the only familiar faces onboard for the flick.
Stan will be back as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier. The Pam & Tommy actor is one of the most senior members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, joining in 2010’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Bucky, after being freed from his brainwashing, is supposed to be one the good guys and help out the new Captain America.Anthony Mackie) and redeeming himself after decades as a mindless assassin.
In The Falcon and Winter SoldierBucky and John Walker/U.S. Agents, played and Wyatt Russell, who is also expected to join the Thunderbolts cast. Walker made a deal to work for Val at the end of the 2021 Disney+ series, but it wasn’t clear what kind of jobs she’d ask him to complete.
U.S. Winter Soldier Agent and Red Guardian are the Thunderbolts’ three men who were part of experiments to reproduce the super soldier serum which made Steve Rogers Captain America.
Finally, there’s Hannah John-Kamen, who returns as Ava Starr/Ghost after first entering the MCU in 2018’s Ant-Man and The Wasp. The character was initially viewed as a villain in her quest for a cure for her molecular instability. However, she turned out to have been one of the good guys.
Marvel is keeping details about how this group ends up together quiet, but here’s everything we know so far about the Thunderbolts:
