Florence Pugh will begin preparations for Marvel's Thunderbolts movie as soon as she finishes promoting Dune: Part II.
The Phase Five MCU feature will star Pugh as Yelena Belova, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
Similar to DC's Suicide Squad, Thunderbolts focuses on a group of anti-heroes.
Due to the writer and actor strikes in 2023, the production has faced a number of delays, but shooting is expected to begin within the next couple of months.
When asked by Entertainment Tonight for an update on Thunderbolts, Pugh replied:
"It kind of feels like it still might not happen because of the amount of times it's been paused, it's a natural feeling. I'm going straight after this, press and then Atlanta to prep. I'll be there for a large portion of time.
"When we shot Black Widow we thought we would shoot the next movie relatively sooner than we did. And it's just this thing we've been waiting to shoot that's been looming sometime in the future and now it's actually happening so it sounds a little bit surreal."
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Thunderbolts like nothing we've seen before
Marvel is actually going through a bit of a critical rough patch after the poor reception given to the likes of Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Secret Invasion.
A lot of the negativity surrounds the lack of fresh ideas.
But, director Jake Schreier reckons Thunderbolts will provide that freshness, and compared it to his previous feature, Beef.
"I can't say what it is, but I can say that there is something different," he told ScreenRant.
"And I think that, again, when you look at something like Beef, there's a specificity of character that then makes the whole thing feel more universal, because it comes from something so personal.
"And I think that something that was exciting about Thunderbolts is it's not a sequel. It's a new story, and it's a set of characters that maybe we've met a little bit in the MCU before, but this is a very new take on who they are and what brings them together. Probably not what people are expecting from it, but I guess I can't really say more than that."
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