This weekend, during D23, Disney announced almost a million projects for the next few years. In the Marvel Studios category, one of the big news is the movie Thunderbolts, which will be a Marvel version of Suicide Squad (a team of bad girls and bad boys who do morally insane things to save the world). and we have a few “VIPs”:Florence Pugh plays Yelena Belova, Black Widow’s little sister, who we saw in the movie Black Widow and a bit at the end of Hawkeye.Sebastian Stan plays Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier , who will perhaps be the mega-star of the troupe following his appearances in The Winter Soldier, the last Avengers, and, recently, the series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. David Harbor takes on the mask of Alexei Shostakov alias the Red Guardian, adoptive dad of Natasha Romanoff, and who was introduced in Black Widow. Moreover, the actor of Stranger Things has already played superheroes in Suicide Squad and Hellboy.Hannah John-Kamen returns in this film after his passage in Ant-Man and the Wasp under the identity of Ava Starr aka Ghost . OK, why not. Olga Kurylenko is Taskmaster (Antonia Dreykov), who we also saw in… Black Widow. Like what, the screenwriters of Thunderbolts have obviously seen only one Marvel film. Wyatt Russell, who puts on the costume of US Agent after his failure as Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. her cap of Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who will surely be in charge of this whole troop of anti-heroes. Conclusion, what do we think of this team? At first glance, it seems a little disappointing, contenting itself with bringing back characters seen in one or two films/series where we already imagined a great team with in addition Zemo, the Mandarin, Red Skull, Abomination, Xu Xialing (the sister from Shang-Chi), or Sharon Carter, or even Elektra or the Punisher, not to mention the potential villains that might have been introduced. In short, real villains, in fact. We are not immune to having a plethora of other characters making their return by then, but at the moment, it is more disappointing than anything else. It remains to be seen what the product will look like. Answer on July 26, 2024.
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