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The director of 2025’s Thunderbolts* has addressed a popular theory about who assembles the titular team, insisting that that is not where the MCU movie’s story is headed. In Marvel Comics, the Thunderbolts were initially assembled by Baron Zemo as a team of secretly evil Avengers replacements before subsequent iterations would be led by different characters. Zemo’s apparent absence from the live-action adaptation alongside multiple other differences – including the team’s members – has therefore given rise to multiple theories surrounding who will take his place and the nature of their goals.
Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has now addressed these theories in an interview in Empire magazine, refuting the idea that Valentina Allegra De Fontaine assembles the team to “do bad things“ and suggesting instead that they are forced together by another factor. His full quote is as follows:
“I’ve seen a lot of synopses out there that just say, as though it’s a fact, that it’s a team assembled by Valentina to go do bad things. I understand why that would be the assumption, but that is not the story. It’s exciting to think of movies like Ronin or Reservoir Dogs, where you have a group of people that has no reason to trust each other. Could they even learn to work together? What sort of conflicts would arise?”
Source: Empire
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