A group of anti-heroes and former and even present supervillains who should work collectively to finish a mission for the US authorities. Sound acquainted? That’s the core premise behind DC Comics’ Suicide Squad, which has been spotlighted in two theatrical films, and it additionally strains up properly with Thunderbolts*, the subsequent of the upcoming Marvel films. Nevertheless, in the event you ask Sebastian Stan, who’s reprising Bucky Barnes on this 2025 film launch, we shouldn’t be evaluating the MCU’s Thunderbolts to the Suicide Squad.
As an alternative, Stan talked about two different films that he feels are extra becoming to match to Thunderbolts* given what we will anticipate to see from him and the opposite principal characters. As he advised BAFTA:
I imply, I type of consider it extra as like The Breakfast Membership. Or this film I really like, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s simply an odd bunch of people who hopefully gained’t kill one another within the course of and have to determine a strategy to type of work collectively. And it was simply unimaginable enjoyable. I imply, everyone’s tremendous candy, and it’s actually humorous and touching, and it really offers with acceptance and proudly owning your self. Which is one thing my character’s handled for a few years at this level. So I’m excited for individuals to see it.
This isn’t the primary time Sebastian Stan has talked about The Breakfast Membership whereas speaking about Thunderbolts*, as he felt the group chemistry between himself and co-stars like Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was “slightly bit like” the 1985 John Hughes film. Then There’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one in every of Jack Nicholson’s greatest films. That’s undoubtedly a extra intense cinematic expertise in comparison with The Breakfast Membership, however I see what Stan is getting at when highlighting how Thunderbolts* additionally has these conflicting personalities that get relatively violent with one another earlier than needing to place apart their variations.
I’m guessing we will additionally anticipate Thunderbolts* to have a extra upbeat ending than One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest since that is nonetheless a (presumably) PG-13-rated superhero film. That’s to not say there gained’t be casualties alongside the best way, as I already suspect that Taskmaster might be killed off. The essential factor, although, is that whereas the Suicide Squad is perhaps the very first thing that involves thoughts when desirous about Thunderbolts*, you’d be higher off considering of the 2 films Stan talked about to get a greater grasp on the MCU film’s total vibe.
Following his shock look in Captain America: Courageous New World, Bucky Barnes will return in Thunderbolts* to work with Yelena Belova, John Walker/U.S. Agent, Alexei Shostakove/Purple Guardian, Ava Starr/Ghost andAntonia Dreykov/Taskmaster on a mission these characters are pressured into by Julia Louis Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Directed by Jake Schreier and written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo, the film comes out on Could 2.