Marvel's latest Thunderbolts* trailer is an homage (and ripoff) of A24's success

The newest trailer for Marvel's upcoming Thunderbolts* is touting some very un-Marvel titles and seemingly distancing itself from a few recent MCU flops.

Instead of promoting the Florence Pugh-Sebastian Stan project as a product of the studio that brought fans Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home or even the more recent Captain America: Brave New World, the Disney brand is taking a different route.

The new trailer instead touts the movie's connections to indie film darlings like Minari, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Midsommar, A Different Man and You Hurt My Feelings. What do all of those titles have in common? They all carry the banner of A24 Films — the independent company that's completely captivated cinephiles since breaking into the mainstream in the 2010s.

In fact, the whole tone of the Thunderbolts* trailer seems to rip off the indie film aura.

Fans immediately noticed how similar the trailer is to the teaser to last year's Kinds of Kindness, the follow-up to Yorgos Lanthimos' Oscar-winning Poor Things. Both films were produced by Disney's indie film distributor Searchlight Pictures.

A24 noticed all of it, too. And unleashed a perfect (and NSFW) response to Disney shouting out some of their most famous titles by posting a meme from Euphoria – another A24 production.

None of this is an accident, of course. In an interview with Empire, Pugh described Thunderbolts* as "this quite badass indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes". For all the power and success of the MCU since 2008, the latest slump clearly calls for a change. Disney is banking on the indie feel to get fans back on board and, honestly, there are much worse strategies it could've tried.

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Marvel's Thunderbolts* trailer shows off A24 connections