Summary
Sentry becomes an MCU villain in a Thunderbolts fan-made trailer ahead of the squad’s Marvel Cinematic Universe team-up. While it will be a few years before the world gets to see the Avengers together on the big screen again, a different team is coming together in Phase 5. After years of teasing them in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline, the Thunderbolts are on their way, with Marvel Studios eying them to be its version of DC’s Suicide Squad.
Prior to the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the unique Marvel movie was supposed to start filming this summer, to best fit the Thunderbolts release date. However, principal photography on Thunderbolts is currently on pause until both of the strikes are over, but that is not stopping the world from imagining what the Phase 5 installments might have in store.
Screen Culture recently shared a new Thunderbolts fan-made trailer to serve as a proof-of-concept of what they think the film’s plot will focus on. In this scenario, the Thunderbolts members are assigned to take on Sentry, who is essentially Marvel Comics’ version of Superman.
What We Actually Know About Thunderbolts So Far
Since the initial proper announcement at D23 2022, there are only a handful of details confirmed about Thunderbolts to this point. Paper Towns’ Jake Schreier is set to direct Thunderbolts, based on a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Lee Sung. It is unclear whether or not the Thunderbolts script will go through any chances once the strikes are over before they get the cameras rolling.
The Thunderbolts cast will consist of established MCU players, including Yelena Belova as the new Black Widow, Taskmaster, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, U.S. Agent, and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. To this point, only two new cast members have been officially tapped, as The Bears’ Ayo Edebiri and The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun have been added in mystery roles. In Yeun’s case, as shown in the Thunderbolts fan-made trailer, the popular theory is that he is actually playing Sentry in the MCU, but that has yet to be confirmed or denied.
The bigger mystery about Thunderbolts at this point, outside of who their actual threat is going to be, is whether additional members will be added, and whether they will be established MCU characters. It wouldn’t be shocking if this is the line-up that the movie will stick to in order to avoid having Thunderbolts pack in too many characters, but the potential of using the team setup to introduce more Marvel characters into the fray also seems hard for the franchise to pass up. Hopefully, once the Hollywood strikes come to an end, more details about Thunderbolts can finally start to emerge as filming gets underway.
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