Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers

Spoilers up for Marvel’s Thunderbolts*.

Marvel Studios has officially retitled Thunderbolts* arsenic The New Avengers. The workplace made the announcement connected societal media Monday with a alteration to the rubric connected the film’s poster.

The asterisk successful the rubric of Thunderbolts had agelong been a substance of speculation until the ending of Thunderbolts revealed that Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, USAgent and Senty/Bob Reynolds were the New Avengers lineup spontaneously announced by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

(And lest you deliberation this is conscionable a societal media stunt connected Marvel’s part, the New Avengers poster is already being utilized by AMC Theaters to beforehand Thunderbolts summons sales.)

Rebranding Thunderbolts arsenic The New Avengers successful its 2nd week of merchandise is simply a shrewd commercialized calculation by Marvel Studios and Disney. While Thunderbolts performed good successful its opening weekend, topping the home container bureau with $76 million, the Avengers films were cardinal dollar-grossing blockbusters.

Perhaps the movie volition execute adjacent amended successful the coming weeks present that wide audiences cognize that the movie is truly a restart of the Avengers franchise.

The New Avengers – on with Sam Wilson/Captain America, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men – volition instrumentality successful Avengers: Doomsday, which is present filming successful London. Doctor Doom prima Robert Downey Jr. fto the New Avengers uncover gaffe successful an Instagram station implicit the play astir him and his Doomsday co-stars going to spot Thunderbolts but helium aboriginal deleted the “New Avengers” notation from it.

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