- Marvel has launched new teasers for Captain America: Courageous New World and Thunderbolts
- Cap 4’s trailer reveals our greatest look but at Harrison Ford’s Pink Hulk
- The pair will shut out Part 5 of the comedian e book big’s cinematic universe
2025 goes to be one of many busiest 12-month intervals in Marvel Studios’ historical past – and, if trailers for 2 of its new films are something to go by, the comic-book big could possibly be in for an additional stellar yr.
Contemporary off saying a packed 2025 Disney Plus TV present lineup in late October, Marvel debuted new seems to be at two of the three movies it’ll launch subsequent yr ultimately Saturday’s (November 9) D23 Brasil Expo presentation. The films in query? Captain America: Courageous New World and Thunderbolts, which can arrive in theaters on February 14 and Could 2 respectively.
With Sam Wilson’s first big-screen outing as Captain America main the cost, it’ll come as no shock to be taught that this Marvel Part 5 movie’s newest batch of footage got here by means of an official trailer. It’s one of many extra creatively authentic teasers that the Disney subsidiary has spliced collectively in a very long time, too, with conflicting snippets of footage, which exhibit its largely duplicitous solid of characters (Wilson however), talking to its political-thriller vibes. Cap 4‘s latest teaser comes four months after Brave New World‘s initial trailer debuted a first look at Harrison Ford’s Pink Hulk, who’s revealed in all his glory on this new spherical of footage.
As for Thunderbolts, the second of three Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) flicks acquired a prolonged special-look teaser. The three-minute-long video opens with an prolonged clip from the movie, which exhibits Bucky Barnes showing to save lots of Yelena Belova, Pink Guardian, US Agent, and Ghost from some unidentifiable unhealthy guys, just for Bucky to show the tables on the supposed rescuees.
The teaser, which arrives lower than two months after Thunderbolts‘ first trailer unveiled an official look at Lewis Pullman’s Bob and Yelena Belova’s anti-hero squad, evolves right into a extra conventional trailer after that, with quick-cut footage that exhibits its morally complicated characters working collectively as they commerce quips and sarcastic barbs. The video additionally confirms who owns Avengers Tower now, with Valentina Allegra De Fontaine having purchased the New York landmark within the wake of Tony Stark’s demise in Avengers: Endgame.
Ending on a excessive?
Anybody who’s frequented these components will likely be conscious that, ever since MCU Part 5 started with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in February 2023, my confidence in Marvel has waned.
Sure, there have been customary successes for the comedian titan. In 2024 alone, Marvel has given us one of many finest Disney Plus exhibits of all time in X-Males 97. That animated sequence was just lately joined on the TV entrance by highly-rated WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Alongside, whose recognition grew week-on-week. Add within the box-office juggernaut that was Deadpool and Wolverine, an MCU film I actually loved even when some didn’t, and 2024 has seen Marvel reach its makes an attempt to course-correct after a – by its lofty requirements – horrible 2023.
Certainly, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Loki season 2 however, small- and big-screen duds within the type of Secret Invasion and The Marvels continued to showcase Marvel’s inconsistent artistic method to its cinematic juggernaut since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Sure, there have been additionally nice movies and sequence that adopted Avengers 4 between July 2019 and January 2023 – together with WandaVision, Spider-Man: No Approach House, and Shang-Chi to call simply three.
For each good mission, although, there was a nasty and/or divisive one, akin to Thor: Love and Thunder and – though I preferred it – She Hulk: Legal professional at Regulation. Throw within the 2023 Hollywood strikes and different points which have plagued the studio, and Marvel has not solely been preventing fires for years now, but additionally suffered quite a few hits to its beforehand untouchable popularity.
Based mostly on Cap 4 and Thunderbolts‘ new teasers, though, it seems the MCU’s newest part will finish with a bang, slightly than a whimper. And even when it does exit on a low observe, it gained’t sound the MCU’s dying knell, with eagerly anticipated movies like The Unbelievable 4: First Steps and two extra Avengers films, plus thrilling Disney Plus exhibits together with Daredevil: Born Once more, additionally on the best way. Even so, Marvel can’t afford to maintain churning out important and industrial duds, so it’ll hope 2025 doesn’t begin as badly as 2023 did.
