David Harbour Is The Only To Dress Up At ‘Thunderbolts*’ Comic-Con Session, First Trailer Unveiled

Theatrics are always welcome in any Marvel Hall H panel and David Harbour showed up dressed in his Russian character as Alexi Shostakov.

“Oh my God! You guys didn’t dress up!” said Harbour standing in the middle of Hall H. “Guys I sent the email! Because we said it was Comic-con!”

“Sebastian! You said because I couldn’t rewrite that pivotal monologue in act 2, that you’d dress up!”

“Nobody dressed up except Julia.! Thank you, Julia…Guys I’m so embarrassed!”

During its packed Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Saturday, Marvel Studios rolled out the first footage from Thunderbolts*, its superhero film set to close out Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Thunderbolts* as a project was first announced at Comic-Con, with many of the core cast members being introduced on stage at Disney’s D23 event in 2023. The ensemble includes Harrison Ford as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, and Geraldine Viswanathan, among others.

While specifics as to Thunderbolts*‘ plot have been kept under wraps, the film is understood as the MCU’s answer to Suicide Squad. Derived from characters first introduced to Marvel Comics in 1997, the story is expected to follow a group of villains as they’re sent on missions commissions by the government.

Jake Schreier directed the Marvel tentpole from a script by his Beef collaborator Lee Sung Jin, with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige producing the pic slated for release on May 5, 2025.

Today’s news comes at a time when Marvel has begun recalibrating, lifting the pressure to produce as much content as possible with a new mandate of two films per year. Already past the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Marvels, with Deadpool & Wolverine currently in theaters, its fifth phase of the MCU is also set to feature Captain America: Brave New World, which opens on February 14, 2025.

Opening with The Fantastic Four on July 25, 2025, Phase Six will also feature Blade (November 7, 2025), Avengers 5 (May 1, 2026), and Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027).

This year’s edition of San Diego Comic-Con runs through Sunday, July 28.