Ayo Edebiri, the breakout star of The Bear, has joined Marvel Studios' anti-hero team-up film Thunderbolts in an unspecified capacity. According to Variety, a US-based mediahouse, the film is directed by Jake Schreier (Paper Towns, Robot and Frank) from a script by Eric Pearson (Black Widow). Kevin Feige is producing, as he is with every Marvel Studios production. At the San Diego Comic-Con, Feige confirmed Thunderbolts for 2022 as the culmination of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which begins in February with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It is currently scheduled to debut on July 26, 2024. Thunderbolts: Cast, Plot, Release Date – All You Need to Know About Marvel's Upcoming Multi-Starrer Anti-Hero Film!.
According to Variety, Thunderbolts will bring together several anti-heroes from the MCU, including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) from Black Widow, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ghost from Ant-Man and the Wasp (Hannah John-Kamen).Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Falcon and Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, will command the crew. Louis-Dreyfus told Variety that Thunderbolts will begin fiming in June. (Though Harrison Ford is planned to play the film's namesake, Thunderbolt Ross, replacing the late William Hurt, the character is rumored to appear in Captain America: New World Order, which is set to premiere two months before Thunderbolts, in May 2024.) Marvel at SDCC 2022: Secret Invasion, Thunderbolts, Captain America: New World Order and More - All MCU Phase 5 Projects and Release Dates Announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2022.
Talking about Ayo Edebiri, since FX's The Bear aired on Hulu in June 2022, her career has been on fire. She co-stars with Ben Platt in the movie Theater Camp, which premiered at Sundance and was quickly snatched up by Searchlight, and she'll next be seen in the LGBTQ coming-of-age comedy Bottoms, which will be available on Amazon Prime Video later this year.