THUNDERBOLTS*: Bucky Punches A Human Chicken In Weird, Wild New Trailer For Marvel Studios' Next Movie

THUNDERBOLTS*: Bucky Punches A Human Chicken In Weird, Wild New Trailer For Marvel Studios' Next Movie

Marvel Studios has shared a new look at Thunderbolts* with a teaser that lists the movie’s incredible production team and showcases heaps of never-before-seen footage. This is an absolute must-watch...

By JoshWilding - Mar 07, 2025 02:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts

Marvel Studios and Letterboxd have released a new minute-long trailer for Thunderbolts*, and it highlights the incredible indie talent who have boarded the movie in behind the scenes roles. 

There's also heaps of never-before-seen footage from the next MCU movie, including Yelena Belova coming face-to-face with herself, Bob's feet starting to float above the ground, and Bucky punching a guy...in a chicken costume?!

Unless Marvel Studios is majorly misleading us with Thunderbolts*'s marketing campaign, this looks like unlike anything we've seen from them before. There's a risk the studio will deliver the expected third act VFX-heavy battle when The Sentry comes into play, but even that stands a chance of surprising us.

Captain America: Brave New World drew mixed reviews when it opened last month. Marvel Studios could do with a critical and commercial hit and both Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps feel like a step in the right direction after a few recent misfires.

Perhaps crucially, both were developed following Bob Chapek's departure as Disney CEO (Bob Iger's return saw him demand a shift from quantity back to quality). 

"You’re talking about a group of characters that have done a lot of bad things, and maybe are struggling with feeling good about themselves," director Jake Schreier recently explained. "There’s an element that does speak to mental health, and loneliness, and how some of the darkness that we experience in our lives can’t be necessarily fixed, but can only really be made lighter through connection and finding others."

Watch this new Thunderbolts* teaser in the player below.

In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes - Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it’s too late?

The cast of Thunderbolts* will be led by Florence Pugh as Yelena Boleva, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Lewis Pullman as "Bob."

Written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo, and directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts* is currently set to be released in theaters on May 5, 2025.

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NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 3/7/2025, 2:28 PM
Marvel in damage control mode... can't wait to see what they do next with the marketing campaign for First Steps
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 3/7/2025, 2:32 PM
@NoDaysOff - It is effective though, as I find my self more excited for this than I remember being for D&W by the time all the spoilers leaked proir to the movie's release.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/7/2025, 5:50 PM
@NoDaysOff -
Pretty much. This film seems lifeless, depressive in its color scheme and presentation and generic in its structure. This trailer was clearly an attempt to manipulate after the boring and bland looks at the film we have been seeing. They want people to think it's wacky/quirky when it's going to end up being a depressingly slow hog of a film with washed out visuals and inconsistent characters with a messy plot.

• Where is the Ant Family who promised if the world/Avengers needed help, they would be there. That was the entire point of Ant-Man 3!?

• Where is Sam Wilson, he was charged with making a new Avengers team and best friends with Bucky who he met right before the events of this film. Why does the new 'Captain America' not give a frick?

• Why are we pretending that there is no Avengers when the Avengers were shown at the end of Shang Chi?

• Where is everyone else who is in the exact same location and yet is not involved?

Marvel are going to have three flops/bombs in a row going into Avengers Doomsday - Cap 4, Thunderbolts and Fanta5tic Four. Maybe Doomsday isn't a complete disaster for them, but going on the $400m+ budget it's going to struggle. We've not seen a pure MCU movie make over $1bn since Endgame - the only ones that have are celebrations of the competitor franchises of the past NWH a revisit of Sony's Spider-man and D&W a revisit of the Fox-Verse.

Not a single movie in Phase 4/5 has managed to pass $1bn without standing on the merits of the works of other companies - and now they need Avengers Doomsday to make around $1bn+ just to break-even... and they are likely hoping for $2bn to show that the Avengers branding isn't damaged. These are the culmination movies of Phase 1-6... we are heading into the culmination movies with zero set-up and repeated flops.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/8/2025, 2:53 AM
@Scarilian - gonna try to tackle those points...
*I don't remember the Ant family making any promises like that in Quantumania. The whole plot was kicked off by accident and more or less a survival of the events from there ending in a sense of existential dread as Scott wondered if he made things worse or not.

*Where is anyone during others solo films? You're kind of jumping to conclusions when we don't know when this film takes place (span of days, during Sam recovering from BNW) and absence can sometimes be justified by lack of prep time and events culminating by surprise like how quickly things went down in Avengers.

*Just Wong, Banner and Carol with no leader is hardly the Avengers. Subsequent stuff shows Banner hardly active as a superhero, Wong being busy as sorcerer supreme, and Carol off-earth per usual, which Banner indicates in the scene you referenced that she disappears a lot without a way to contact.

*Again, there's plenty we don't know including the pacing of event and timing. The film shows multiple locations, one of which is NYC, but the only people confirmed to be residing there definitely are Daredevil and Spider-Man unless I'm missing someone.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/9/2025, 1:00 PM
@Slotherin -
"I don't remember the Ant family making any promises like that in Quantumania"

Scott promises in his book and verbally to his family during the Dinner scene and also the opening of the movie that he'll come when called by the Avengers and his priority is still saving the world. The Ant-Family actively states they are intended to help the world also with Cassie helping on a street level and Hope having fully prevented homelessness and solved food issues.

"Where is anyone during others solo films?"

The lack of appearances of other characters during other films is also a problem given we are in an interconnected universe. This problem was brought up during the end of Phase 1 going into Phase 2 and Marvel actively made an attempt to try and fix it with more inter-connectivity to the point of a majority of movies becoming group ensembles.

"we don't know when this film takes place"

Yes we do. The film itself acknowledges it is set two years after the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier which took place in 2025. Secret Invasion is set in 2026. The films opening begins in November 2026 and takes place primarily in early 2027 ending around March to April 2027.

"Just Wong, Banner and Carol with no leader is hardly the Avengers."

As per the events of Endgame, they are officially all Avengers. There's also Ant-Man and his family as mentioned. Wong is currently training America Chavez. Shang Chi is in communication with them. Wong knows She-Hulk. She-Hulk knows Daredevil intimately. Spider-man would show up because he's literally got no personal life to focus on at this time.

The point I made was crystal clear that we have established interactions and heroes who should be willing to interact in these massive threats and instead we're now being told they all can't be bothered.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/9/2025, 1:04 PM
@Slotherin -
"Again, there's plenty we don't know including the pacing of event and timing."

We do, it's in the movies and media. Did you not pay attention?
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/9/2025, 1:05 PM
@Slotherin -
"the only people confirmed to be residing there definitely are Daredevil and Spider-Man unless I'm missing someone"

Arguably the Sentry or Void creating a negative zone of death encompassing NYC and killing people right outside Avengers Tower should result in every hero inside that being under threat and wanting to help.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/9/2025, 3:28 PM
@Scarilian - "We do, it's in the movies and media. Did you not pay attention"
Cute, but what do you mean movies as a plural? This particular movie hasn't released yet... if you got a special sneak peak that lets you know the course of events, I suppose I didn't get to see it. That or my point was missed altogether.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/9/2025, 3:32 PM
@Scarilian - I think you've missed my point. If the events happen quickly enough, there's always the possibility that the team in this are the only ones IMMEDIATELY available to help.

Matt having She Hulk on speed dial doesn't help if she's all the way in California.
Depending on the reasons given in the movie, it's possible that shit goes down so fast that they're working with what they've got, as is often the case.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/9/2025, 3:38 PM
@Scarilian - anyway, I'll admit I forgot about Scott's promise, though like She Hulk he is far away... while he says he'll be available if the Avengers call, that doesn't indicate them currently being anything more than a loosely assembled bunch as what we saw in Shang-Chi. Again, no leader. There's plenty of characters and connections but they don't appear to be assembled as an actual team in the moment.
Which makes sense when you consider most of the original team has left the chat.

Side note: Avengers tower isn't Avengers tower anymore... they appeared to have moved everything to the compound by the time of Civil War and Homecoming. Then the compound got destroyed in Endgame.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/9/2025, 3:41 PM
@Scarilian - "The point I made was crystal clear that we have established interactions and heroes who should be willing to interact in these massive threats and instead we're now being told they all can't be bothered."
Hopefully clearly made now, my counterpoint was they aren't that organized, kind of in shambles... And not knowing exactly how everything plays out, there could be a reason that things go down as they will before other heroes can be assembled.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/10/2025, 6:05 PM
@Slotherin -
"if you got a special sneak peak that lets you know the course of events"

Bucky is running for congress in Captain America 4 and a member of Congress as shown in the trailers for Thunderbolts*. As such, Thunderbolts* has to be set after Captain America 4 because he wouldn't be running for congress after he's already gotten into congress.

This wasn't always going to be the case though as originally they planned for Thunderbolts* to release prior to Captain America 4 and would have been the reason for Ross to ask Sam to set-up a new Avengers team. Them shifting the order of things makes Thunderbolts* lack of heroes/Avengers even more obvious.

"Again, no leader."

If you have a group, someone would would normally take the lead.

The first Avengers movie doesn't really have a specific leader of the Avengers until Captain America starts giving orders during the NYC battle.

The lack of a leader shouldn't prevent the Avengers responding or the other heroes - especially when the lack of action results in deaths. I feel like a leader would naturally make themselves known if a group of heroes was brought together. Isn't that how it's probably going to be handled in Doomsday/Secret Wars?

"they aren't that organized, kind of in shambles..."

Ant-Man seemed to fully believe they were still active and he'd await a call from them for action. It's unclear more so because we've not explored those aspects or asked the characters these questions as opposed to the characters stating they've disbanded or quit or anything.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/11/2025, 8:01 AM
@Scarilian - Ant-Man has often been out of the loop so I honestly can easily interpret anything he says as a reflection of that. Plus, waiting on the call doesn't mean the call will actually come anytime soon.

As for this taking place after Cap 4, the release more or less makes that a given but that wasn't the point. The point was how the events unfold, as some movies are confirmed to be over the span of weeks while others more or less over the course of days. What I was intending to get at is if things went down sort of like the first Avengers or Winter Soldier, where it's the course of a few days and shit gets out of hand FAST with only a handful aware of the problem before it unfolds, there could be wiggle room to excuse other heroes not making it to the threat during the events of this. Sort of like how the climaxes of a few projects at this point pretty much are over not long after they begin.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 3/11/2025, 8:06 AM
@Scarilian - there wasn't a clear cut leader among the team til Cap started to take the role, but they did have Fury bringing them together.
Someone would normally take lead... If they're a leader type. But without an effective leader, a group can be very disorganized and none of them are exactly the kind of leader Rogers was. Carol disappears to go solo, Banner has never been a leader... Wong would be the best contender as the head of Mystic Arts but that also makes him busy with that and (with no disrespect to him) he hasn't exactly had an amazing sense of leadership put on display so far.
Vigor
Vigor - 3/7/2025, 2:29 PM
These trailers are wild. I'm so excited for this 1
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/7/2025, 2:42 PM
@Vigor - whoever has been doing the trailers for Marvel lately deserves a raise!!.

This , BNW and BA’s trailers had flair to them!!.
Vigor
Vigor - 3/7/2025, 2:49 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I know. They upped their game and it shows
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 3/8/2025, 8:57 PM
@Vigor - Where is the love for this movie it looks like it could be one of the more unique MCU films. People complain they don't try new things, well here you go.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 3/7/2025, 2:29 PM
I am loving the look of this movie. Captain Falcon was a miss, but with DD and this, things could be looking up!
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 3/7/2025, 6:37 PM
@Shivermetimbers -

Just more crap.

Disney keeps burning us.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 3/8/2025, 1:04 AM
@Shivermetimbers - i hope so.

I like the look of the trailers, but the first Suicide Squad did this. They tried to give it an indi grunge look in the marketing and it wound up being bad.

DD is coming out swinging hard, but Marvel’s gonna need like 3 in a row to get momentum from the masses.
BrainySleep
BrainySleep - 3/7/2025, 2:29 PM
As a human who identifies as a chicken, I find that trailer really offensive
Goldboink
Goldboink - 3/7/2025, 5:31 PM
@BrainySleep -
I identify as an albatross and I am offended by your being offended.

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BrainySleep
BrainySleep - 3/7/2025, 6:23 PM
@Goldboink - Bloody Albatrosses. You're worse than the Goobacks.
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 3/8/2025, 8:59 PM
@BrainySleep - User Comment Image
Thebronxknight
Thebronxknight - 3/7/2025, 2:31 PM
That was actually pretty colol. Feige stepping out if his comfort zone.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 3/7/2025, 2:31 PM
think this is the best or most fun trailer yet. May have given too much away though if you've read the comics of sentry the void and Belova
MisterBones
MisterBones - 3/7/2025, 2:32 PM
This thing looks like it actually has personality
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 3/7/2025, 2:33 PM
Great trailer, I see they are going for that "independent movie" vibe.

I would add as a caution statement, that all those artists previous work don't mean much if their creativity was crushed by Marvel and Disney interference.
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 3/7/2025, 2:34 PM
@Usernametaken - Still great for publicity 🤷‍♀️
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 3/7/2025, 2:37 PM
@NoDaysOff - Maybe we finally have a new great Director for the MCU.

Because as a director, he's the one who spearheaded the hiring of the creative team behind it. And it looks like he got one hell of a team for the job.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/7/2025, 2:42 PM
@Usernametaken - honestly, I think listing all of the creators past accomplishments spliced in between shots of people drinking water or a guy in a chicken costume (seriously, who describes that as a human chicken???) is kind of tongue in cheek
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 3/7/2025, 2:55 PM
@SATW42 - I agree, but at the same time, I can tell you that the creative team behind Captain America BNW doesn't have that kind of track record.
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 3/7/2025, 6:36 PM
@SATW42 - I really appreciate you being honest about thinking that listing all of the creators past accomplishments spliced in between shots of people drinking water or a guy in a chicken costume is kind of tongue in cheek 😉
movieguy18
movieguy18 - 3/7/2025, 2:37 PM
Hell yeah! Keep em coming! Can’t wait for this movie to come out!
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 3/7/2025, 2:37 PM
I like this trailer more than the others. That beat is 🔥🔥🔥
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 3/7/2025, 2:48 PM
@ModHaterSLADE -

Opr - Gesaffelstein


Chasekeane
Chasekeane - 3/7/2025, 3:17 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - kinds reminds me of Squid Games
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 3/7/2025, 3:27 PM
@Usernametaken - You're the man for this shit. Thanks!
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 3/7/2025, 3:28 PM
@Chasekeane - Yeah, comes off as weirder/ more sinister.
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