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Florence Pugh, who plays Yelena Belova in Thunderbolts* (2025), at TIFF in 2024. Event photograph, not a film still. Photo: Frank Sun / WikiPortraits , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Display size adjusted; source photograph unchanged. Thunderbolts* brings together people whose abilities make them useful without making cooperation easy. The central problem is not simply whether the group can fight. It is whether people who have been used, isolated or distrusted can begin to depend on one another without repeating the same patterns. Jake Schreier directs the 2025 film. Marvel’s official record credits a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, with story by Pearson, and lists the US release as 2 May 2025. Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are among its cast. A shared threat is a beginning, not a friendship Marvel’s synopsis places Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and Jo...