THUNDERBOLTS* Actor David Harbour Says the Film Is Full of "Film and Theatre Nerds" and "It's Absolute Pure Cinema"

Marvel has taken a new approach to marketing their upcoming movie Thunderbolts, and one of its stars, David Harbour, is reinforcing the new method by promoting the award-winning cast and crew that makes up the film. The new trailer for the film honors crucial players in the creation of the movie like the cinematographers and composers along with the stars, giving the Phase 5 installment a very A24-feeling to it.The actor talked up his cast and crew in a new interview with ScreenRant, where he slyly bucked the 2019 sentiment of director Martin Scorsese, who said in an interview that Marvel movies were not real cinema. When asked about the new trailer, Harbour said:“Yeah, I would also like to take it even a step further: I am a Tony nominee. Tony-nominated David Harbour. So we have theater, we've done off-Broadway plays together. All of us are a bunch of film and theater nerds. “I mean, look, Jake (Schreier) is a funny guy, and I think we're all aware of how ridiculous this movie sounded to the Marvel community a year ago when it was presented. Like, these losers, you're going to put them all in a film and have them run around with no reference to whatever?“And then I think that it allowed us a real freedom to do something different. And I think we really tried to do that. And so the gratifying thing has been with the trailers coming out, and I think having seen the movie, I think it's exciting and I think that it's a sort of shot in the arm for what's next for Marvel, and yeah, it's full of pretentious Oscar nominees like Florence Pugh. “So what are you going to do? We have to highlight that. Sebastian Stan. I mean, the credits are insane. The awards, the glitter, it's absolute pure cinema.”Harbour has already seen a cut of the film, and he described it as surprising and impressive. His co-star Sebastian Stan has bragged about the film’s practical effects and said it’s unlike any other Marvel movie, and Florence Pugh said it was like “An A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes.” We are just over a month away from this movie hitting theaters, so we can finally see if we agree with the stars’ critiques and find out once and for all what that asterisk is about. Thunderbolts will be released in theaters on May 2, 2025.

Mar 26, 2025 - 13:49

THUNDERBOLTS* Actor David Harbour Says the Film Is Full of "Film and Theatre Nerds" and "It's Absolute Pure Cinema"

Marvel has taken a new approach to marketing their upcoming movie Thunderbolts*, and one of its stars, David Harbour, is reinforcing the new method by promoting the award-winning cast and crew that makes up the film.

The new trailer for the film honors crucial players in the creation of the movie like the cinematographers and composers along with the stars, giving the Phase 5 installment a very A24-feeling to it.

The actor talked up his cast and crew in a new interview with ScreenRant, where he slyly bucked the 2019 sentiment of director Martin Scorsese, who said in an interview that Marvel movies were not real cinema. When asked about the new trailer, Harbour said:

“Yeah, I would also like to take it even a step further: I am a Tony nominee. Tony-nominated David Harbour. So we have theater, we've done off-Broadway plays together. All of us are a bunch of film and theater nerds.

“I mean, look, Jake (Schreier) is a funny guy, and I think we're all aware of how ridiculous this movie sounded to the Marvel community a year ago when it was presented. Like, these losers, you're going to put them all in a film and have them run around with no reference to whatever?

“And then I think that it allowed us a real freedom to do something different. And I think we really tried to do that. And so the gratifying thing has been with the trailers coming out, and I think having seen the movie, I think it's exciting and I think that it's a sort of shot in the arm for what's next for Marvel, and yeah, it's full of pretentious Oscar nominees like Florence Pugh.

“So what are you going to do? We have to highlight that. Sebastian Stan. I mean, the credits are insane. The awards, the glitter, it's absolute pure cinema.”

Harbour has already seen a cut of the film, and he described it as surprising and impressive. His co-star Sebastian Stan has bragged about the film’s practical effects and said it’s unlike any other Marvel movie, and Florence Pugh said it was like “An A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes.”

We are just over a month away from this movie hitting theaters, so we can finally see if we agree with the stars’ critiques and find out once and for all what that asterisk is about.

Thunderbolts* will be released in theaters on May 2, 2025.