'Thunderbolts' Super Bowl Spot: Sentry Gets Teased As The Big Bad In Marvel's Ragtag Super-Soldier Team
With the Super Bowl in full swing this weekend, it was a prime opportunity for and to remind audiences of the beloved sporting event that the next big release of “” isn’t too far away from gracing the big screen with a brand new TV spot, which you can watch below.
The pic helmed by (“,” “”) is a hodgepodge of elements from ” franchise, “,” and “” for the new team-up film. Although, there seems to be more of a comedic tone than we usually see in these MCU films, taking cues from military/spy thrillers.
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One of the biggest draws is going to be the fantastic cast assembled for “Thunderbolts,” which includes as Red Guardian, as Ghost, as the cloak-and-dagger director of the CIA that puts the group together, as Bucky Barnes, as U.S. Agent, , as Bob (assumed to be a version of Sentry), as Taskmaster, and as Yelena Belova, who has all but taken over the Black Widow mantle from (pending a brief return in the next two Multiverse-centric installments of the “”).
Funny enough, “Thunderbolts” first started at as a wishlist idea (“Guardians of The Galaxy”) tried to get going at the studio before moving on to “The Suicide Squad” and “Creature Commandos” (two DC Comics’ super-teams made up of villains and anti-heroes, striking a similar tone).
It’s still unclear if “Thunderbolts” is a real franchise starter or simply planting seeds for (Dark/New Avengers?) what’s to come in “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” as the assumption is plenty of these characters (now managed by President Thunderbolt Ross’ government ala “Captain America: Brave New World”) will be announced for those movies, eventually.
Watch that new footage below via Disney.
