🔴Kevin Feige Comments On Marvel Adding An Asterisk To The Movie Title🔴
0Thunderbolts recently underwent an official, but puzzling name change when Marvel introduced the asterisk to the title, but Kevin Feige has refused to explain the change. Thunderbolts* is currently slated to release on May 5, 2025, after Captain America: Brave New World releases on February 14 of the same year. Story details are still relatively scarce, but it will feature a group of established MCU antiheroes joining forces under the purview of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
The title change has raised many eyebrows since it was introduced, but Kevin Feige himself has refused to elaborate on the change in an appearance at CinemaCon 2024, attended by Screen Rant, stating:
Yes, you’ll notice the asterisk on Thunderbolts. That is the official title of Thunderbolts and we won’t talk more about that until after the movie comes out.
This at least rules out some theories about the sudden name change. Florence Pugh revealed in a video of the Thunderbolts* set that the title had made its way onto on-set furniture, which was the first indication that the change was the movie's official title and not a placeholder. Feige's confirmation cements this notion, and his refusal to elaborate offers further clues.
Kevin Feige's secrecy is understandable if one thing is true: explaining it would spoil the movie. This all but confirms that the official title of the movie is directly tied to the narrative, and contradicts notions that an asterisk was added as a placeholder ahead of a more drastic change further down the line or that it was added purely for production purposes. Instead, Feige's confirmation that it is "official" opens the floor to theories surrounding why an asterisk would be tagged onto the titular team's name in-universe.