David Harbour Sheds Light on Asterisk in ‘Thunderbolts*’ Title: “I’m excited for the viewers to see that”

‘Thunderbolts*’ is one of many upcoming MCU releases but it’s a significant movie for several reasons. First, it’s going to introduce Marvel’s equivalent of Suicide Squad to the MCU. Second, it’s going to introduce Sentry, one of the most powerful characters in comics to the big screen.

The movie was initially titled only ‘Thunderbolts,’ but soon after the shooting began, Florence Pugh accidentally revealed the new logo and the title of the movie in a video made for fans. The new title included an asterisk. Feige cleared up during CinemaCon that ‘Thunderbolts*’ truly is the title of the movie but that the mystery of the sign will be revealed once the movie is released.

Several theories have been developed regarding what the asterisk could mean, but the so far most supported theory is that ‘Thunderbolts*’ is just the first movie in a franchise and the asterisk will be replaced by a number when the movie releases.

Some fans theorized even before that the movies are being filmed back-to-back, which seems unlikely given that Iger is drastically changing the direction of the MCU, wanting to invest in only sure hits, following a disastrous box-office year.

Several months back, Atlanta_filming Instagram account referred to the movie as ‘Thunderbolts* Part 1.’ Post was relatively quickly removed from the page but still, you can’t help but wonder.

David Harbor, who will reprise his role as Red Guardian recently sat down with ComicBook to talk about his career and his upcoming projects, at some point the topic of the asterisk was brought up, and here’s what Harbor had to say about it:

I mean, they retroactively put the asterisk (in). The asterisk was an idea that that someone had…..What can I say that’s not going to get me in trouble? …The asterisk is very cool. I understand why people might put an asterisk there (laughs) I’m excited for the viewers to see that as well. But I, again, I just can’t say anymore.

Harbor also commented on a growing number of theories related to the movie and his strategies on how to avoid them:

Yeah, not really. I mean, I’ve started to move away from all of that because I feel like I just run into AI articles.

I’m like, who wrote this? This isn’t even English. But I think that it can get dangerous because I don’t want to hear what everyone’s opinion is about all kinds of stuff about me. But we are very comic book true, which I was pleased about. I think there might be some speculation of what people understand about the comics as opposed to people that have actually read the comics.

I think there’s a lot of experts out there that get very annoyed at things. And if you go back and you actually look at it, you might see something different. I think that we’re very into that idea, and yet it is, of course, very surprising because, you know, I don’t think Red Guardian is in any of the Thunderbolts stuff. So they are adding things like they are adding and surprising you with things. But, you know, there’s a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff that we’ve done to make it comic accurate as well.

Making a movie, you can’t really look outside for critiques because everybody, everybody sees the poster and they have an opinion. You’re like, ‘just watch the two hour movie and if you still hate it. Great. Love it? Great.’ But, like, you’ve got to give us a chance. I think all the speculation in the world is like my fantasies about dying or what. I mean, it’s like you can fantasize about horrific things or whatever until you actually see the thing.

I’m very proud of this movie, what we shot. I hear it’s playing well internally and I’m excited for people to see it. I think it’s going to really surprise people. I think people have seen from the trailer, from the shots. I think it’s a pretty cool direction of the MCU’s sort of making now. And I’m excited to be a part of that.

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