Credit: Marvel StudiosThe highly-anticipated Thunderbolts (2025) film is going through a significant change even though Marvel Studios is still filming the movie.
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2023 wasn’t a great year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) was a massive success, none of the other films met Marvel Studios standards critically or financially, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) and The Marvels (2023). And audiences noticed.
Needless to say, this is a tumultuous time in the MCU, with multiple projects pushed back and some of them going through extensive reshoots and rewrites. Now, it looks like another upcoming film is set to experience a major change.
‘Thunderbolts’ Faces a Massive Shift While Filming
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Thunderbolts (2025) is set to be the MCU’s answer to The Suicide Squad, with multiple heroes from questionable backgrounds saving the world. This includes Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford), and many more.
On March 27, Marvel Studios uploaded a video on social media where Florence Pugh gave viewers an unofficial tour of the set they were filming on. This included showing off the crew, her costume, and the back of a director’s chair, revealing a new logo and potentially a new name for the film.
Florence Pugh is here to show you a few things she can't show you.
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* is now in production. pic.twitter.com/XGkNWFm5zC
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 27, 2024
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Instead of the rusty, metallic logo people have come to recognize, the title was spelled out in thin yellow lettering, and an asterisk was added to the end of the title. This is likely a placeholder, which means the full name of the film hasn’t been officially decided yet. For now, the movie is officially known as Thunderbolts*.
This isn’t the first title change to a major MCU film in recent memory. Deadpool 3 was eventually revealed to be titled Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and the next Captain America movie was changed from Captain America: New World Order to Captain America: Brave New World (2025). And let’s not get started on the Disney+ series Agatha…
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