'Thunderbolts' Gets Disney+ Streaming Release Date
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The first big superhero movie of the summer finally has a streaming release date on Disney+. "Thunderbolts*" will begin streaming on Disney+ on August 27. Fittingly, considering it's the same weekday new comics hit shelves, the film will drop on the streaming service on a Wednesday.
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Directed by Jake Schreier, "Thunderbolts*" stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Wendell Pierce.
The members of the eponymous super team are culled from multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe projects including "Black Widow," "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier," and "Ant-Man & The Wasp."
(L-R) Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*.
(L-R) Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*.
Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios
Originally conceived as supervillains disguising themselves as superheroes in the nineties, the Thunderbolts have gone through many incarnations over the years both in and out of the comics.
The official synopsis of the film reads,"Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes with 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. Forced to confront the darkest corners of their pasts, will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite before it's too late?"
While August 27 isn't that far away, if you don't want to wait that long to watch "Thunderbolts*" at home, you don't have to. The film has been available to rent or buy digitally since July 1.
There's also physical releases available of "Thunderbolts*" in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD formats as of July 29.
In theaters, "Thunderbolts*" proved a critical success but underperformed commercially. The superhero film did well enough with reviewers to earn an 88% critics score from Rotten Tomatoes, but fell far below the usual Marvel blockbuster global box office by taking in only $382.4 million.
But in spite of the underwhelming box office, the Thunderbolts (or New Avengers) haven't been forgotten by Disney or Kevin Feige.
Most of the stars of "Thunderbolts*" will be reprising their roles in the upcoming event film "Avengers: Doomsday." Meanwhile "Thunderbolts*" director Jake Schreier has been confirmed as helming Marvel's "X-Men" reboot.
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