Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts': Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and David Harbour to Lead Antihero Team Up
thewrap.comMarvel has unveiled the cast of its upcoming “Thunderbolts,” and it’s exactly who we expected (and we’re not complaining). The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of the Suicide Squad — don’t hate, we’re just describing facts here — will be staffed by Black Widow II (Florence Pugh), The winter Solider (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), U.S.
Agent (Wyatt Russell) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen). And to top it off, as suggested by her machinations in “Black Widow” and “Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is around, likely as the team’s handler.
Which makes sense. You wouldn’t keep having her show up like Samuel L. Jackson used to do unless she’s gonna be the new Nick Fury.Created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley in 1997, Thunderbolts were introduced as a new group of heroes to replace the Avengers, believed to be dead at the time.
It turned out they were all actually evil and working for Baron Zemo — but eventually they rebelled against Zemo and became good guys, or tried to anyway, under the leadership of Clint Barton/Hawkeye.The lineup has changed over the years but generally the team is always made up of antiheroic characters capable of redemption.
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