David Harbour Is The Only One Who Dressed Up At ‘Thunderbolts’ Comic-Con Session As Marvel Unveils First Trailer

Theatrics are always welcome in any Marvel Hall H panel, and David Harbour showed up Saturday night dressed as his Russian character Alexi Shostakov.

“Oh my God! You guys didn’t dress up!” said Harbour standing in the middle of Hall H. “Guys, I sent the email! Because we said it was Comic-Con! Sebastian! You said because I couldn’t rewrite that pivotal monologue in Act 2, that you’d dress up!

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“Nobody dressed up except Julia (Louis-Dreyfus)! Thank you, Julia. … Guys I’m so embarrassed!”

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During its packed Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Saturday, Marvel Studios rolled out the first footage from Thunderbolts*, its superhero film set to close out Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In the trailer, Florence Pugh’s Yelena returns home to Alexi. He says he’s been busy, but he’s been busy being a coach potatoe. She says she’s been unfulfilled, losing herself in work of contract kills. She’s called into a lab where she meets the Thunderbolts team, all of whom try to kill her. “Somone wants us gone,” says Pugh. There’s a shot of Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina at a high-class, fancy dinner soiree, as Sebastian Stan’s Bucky looks on. Dark-hued action which looks very different from other superhero movies and a trippy scene where Yelena jumps off a skyscraper. The tag-line “Careful Who You Assemble”.

The film was concevied as the MCU’s answer to Suicide Squad. Derived from characters first introduced to Marvel Comics in 1997, the story is expected to follow a group of villains as they’re sent on missions commissions by the government.

Thunderbolts* was first announced at Comic-Con 2022, with many of the core cast members being introduced on stage at Disney’s D23 event in 2023. The ensemble includes Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, and Geraldine Viswanathan, among others.

Jake Schreier directed the Marvel tentpole from a script by his Beef collaborator Lee Sung Jin  (off of an original draft by Eric Pearson), with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige producing the pic slated for release on May 5, 2025.

Today’s news comes at a time when Marvel has begun recalibrating, lifting the pressure to produce as much content as possible with a new mandate of two films per year. Already past the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Marvels, with Deadpool & Wolverine currently in theaters, its fifth phase of the MCU is also set to feature Captain America: Brave New World, which opens on February 14, 2025.

Opening with The Fantastic Four on July 25, 2025, Phase Six will also feature Blade (November 7, 2025), Avengers 5 (May 1, 2026), and Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027).

This year’s edition of San Diego Comic-Con runs through Sunday.

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