THUNDERBOLTS* Director Reveals Huge Void Moments Cut From The Movie And Post-Credits Scene Spoilers

THUNDERBOLTS* Director Reveals Huge Void Moments Cut From The Movie And Post-Credits Scene Spoilers

Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has shared details on several sequences cut from the movie's emotional final act and talks more about the biggest talking points in that must-see post-credits scene.

By JoshWilding - May 04, 2025 12:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts
Source: Variety

In Thunderbolts*, when Yelena Belova, U.S. Agent, and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine touch Bob, they're taken to their respective "shame rooms," where they're forced to revisit traumatic moments from their past. 

During the movie's final act, that becomes a little more literal when Yelena enters The Void and we're shown more of the memories that she's pushed down, along with The Sentry's. The rest of the team soon joins them, but only alludes to what they experienced. We never get to see it. 

Talking to Variety, Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier confirmed those scenes were written and storyboarded but cut so the focus could be put on Bob's emotional clash with his darker half. He did, however, share some details on what we missed. 

"We had Alexei in the gulag, I think, having been thrown in there," the filmmaker revealed. "I believe Ghost’s was about her time in the orphanage, and being this girl that no one wanted to be around — to be able to be invisible and see the way that you’re perceived and no one wanting to associate with you felt very sad."

"We had a lot of different Bucky ones. We always wanted to do something a little less than the expected idea. There’s some very obvious things for Bucky, but I think at one point, Joanna had written something around some shameful moment in Boy Scout camp. But I don’t know that that would have really been the right path for it."

"That’s the nice thing with working with these actors," Schreier continued, "they’re such invested, caring guardians of their characters and their arcs that they’ll let you know something feels false or not right to them."

Talk later turned to Thunderbolts*'s post-credits scene. In that, the New Avengers assemble to deal with a cosmic crisis revealed to be the arrival of the Fantastic Four on Earth-616.

"That was shot maybe four weeks ago, and I did not direct that," Schreier told the trade. "That’s the Russos on the set of 'Avengers: Doomsday.' I got to be there, which was very fun, to watch your buddies go on to this grander scale."

Is Captain America really suing them for using the "Avengers" name? "We all worked on the scene just to make sure that it was honest to where our characters were," he teased. "But also, you’re giving them over to this whole new world and new scope, and you want them to function in that way. It was fun to see them directed in another context and on a different level of scope than we had been treating it."

In other words, that's a problem for Avengers: Doomsday to deal with.

The New Avengers are the "official," Government-sponsored team, so Sam Wilson might have to just deal with it. The prospect of there being a conflict between him and Bucky Barnes is intriguing, though we'd bet on them putting their differences aside to battle Doctor Doom.

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?

"Thunderbolts* redefines superhero storytelling to deliver a moving and powerful story that does for the 'Multiverse Saga' what The Avengers did for the 'Infinity Saga' in 2012," we said in our review. "These heroes have earned their place on a Wheaties box."

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 now playing in theaters.

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SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 5/4/2025, 12:21 AM
It would have been cool to revisit a few MCU moments with the characters. Like Bucky trying to stop himself from assassinating Howard Stark and maybe a scene where The Winter Soldier beats Bucky up and the sequence repeats itself just like Yelena. For Ghost it would have been cool to experience her abandonment when Hope, Janet, and Hank got blipped and Scott being MIA and she needed to find a way to survive because they vanished.
epc1122
epc1122 - 5/4/2025, 12:24 AM
@SonOfAGif - I agree. I wonder if it was time, money, or both for the reason why they decided against the scenes.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 5/4/2025, 12:38 AM
@SonOfAGif - I like that, Bucky vs The Winter Soldier! That would have been a pretty great scene!
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/4/2025, 1:00 AM
@SonOfAGif - those revisits have been done to death in Endgame already.

The film is good as it is now.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/4/2025, 2:27 AM
@SonOfAGif - yeah, many missed opportunities to not have done that for the other characters
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 5/4/2025, 3:29 AM
@SonOfAGif - Bucky vs Winter Soldier would've been really great. Would definitely give some closure to that part of his arc as well
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/4/2025, 12:56 AM
"That was shot maybe four weeks ago"

Wow, that is desperate.

At least the movie was coherent and not one big mess of reshoots and rewrites.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 5/4/2025, 1:25 AM
@vectorsigma - What was desperate about it?
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/4/2025, 1:33 AM
@EskimoJ - desperate to hype the next few movies and be back on their usual BO performance.

Nothing is organic in marvel nowadays. Everything is one over reaction after another.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 5/4/2025, 1:23 AM
Nobody bothered by how quickly Bob could control and efficiently use his powers? I mean, it was literally one scene to the next.

I just remember that being a major problem when it came to other characters.
RealTurner
RealTurner - 5/4/2025, 1:33 AM
@EskimoJ - The timeline is a little quick but the guy literally has a God complex. Once he knew he could do it, I think it's okay that he leaned into it real fast.
IAmIronGland
IAmIronGland - 5/4/2025, 2:18 AM
Saw it today. Really enjoyed it. Best Marvel film in several years for me. Really good performances across the board and finally some pretty good CGI. The fight with Sentry almost went wonky but turned out pretty sweet. Two of the funniest lines I've enjoyed in a film in years: "Eww, who's wet?" and "someone has a weird, hard butt." Solid gold. 9/10. Also, I hope that MakeAmericaGrea tool's head explodes if this is a hit.
Polaris
Polaris - 5/4/2025, 3:22 AM
So Sebastian Stan saw the Boy Scout camp scene and went nope lol

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