The next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, Thunderbolts*, is headed to theaters in less than a month. The premise of the film is relatively straightforward: It’s centered on a team of MCU antiheroes—Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker—who survive a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. For Reasons, they—as the official synopsis explains—“embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.”
Based on the behind-the-scenes clip Marvel released at CinemaCon, that confrontation of dark corners involves Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) jumping off the world’s second-tallest building.
The video starts with Sebastian Stan (aka Bucky Barnes) saying that the A-list cast was able to do a lot of their own stunts in the movie, and one of those stunts involved Pugh rigged up to actually do a base jump off the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We see Pugh herself connected to cables as she steps off, and the video then cuts to someone (presumably not Pugh) freefalling from the building and then pulling a parachute.
Fun!
In addition to Pugh and Stan, Thunderbolts* stars Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It’s directed by Jake Schreier, with a screenplay from Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo.
The film premieres in theaters on May 2, 2025, and you can start buying tickets this Monday, April 7.
Check out the behind-the-scenes clip below.
