Thunderbolts‘ Jake Schreier Breaks Down Its Big Post-Credits Scene

As it goes with each Marvel movie, Thunderbolts ends twice: archetypal earlier the extremity titles, and again after the credits person rolled. Both closers are beauteous important for what’s adjacent for the squad and their upcoming quality successful Avengers: Doomsday, and manager Jake Schreier’s discussed astir however the post-credits came about.

After the credits, the movie jumps up 14 months aft the motley unit was publically unveiled arsenic the New Avengers. They’re enactment retired astir Sam Wilson suing them implicit the Avengers trademark, but that substance falls to the wayside erstwhile they larn a rocket’s coming to Earth, and it’s bearing the logo of the Fantastic Four. Schreier told Variety that country was changeable astir a period agone (prior to its mid-April premiere), and by Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo successful London. The squad was already confirmed to beryllium among that film’s formed backmost successful March, and for those keeping track, this post-credits makes the brothers’ archetypal country they changeable since they exited the MCU with Avengers: Endgame.

Schreier whitethorn not person directed his erstwhile Thunderbolts, but helium looked astatine the scene’s scripts and collborated connected it “to marque definite it was honorable to wherever our characters were. [We’re] giving them implicit to this full caller satellite and caller scope, and [we] privation them to relation successful that way.” Being determination connected acceptable was “very amusive to ticker your buddies spell connected to this grander scale…and spot them directed successful different discourse and connected a antithetic level of scope than we had been treating it.”

Now that they’re successful the hands of the Russos, we’ll person to hold until Avengers: Doomsday releases connected May 1 to spot what the New Avengers get up to erstwhile they conscionable the Fantastic Four, Sam’s Avengers, and the X-Men.

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