Thunderbolts release date shifts due to Fantastic Four Valentine’s Day announcement

Both movies are set to release in 2025

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Marvel Studioshas switched the release dates of two of its biggest 2025 movies, moving up Thunderbolts two months and pushingFantastic Fourback.

Following Marvel’s Valentine’s Day Fantastic Four announcement, it has been revealed that Thunderbolts will now be released on May 2, 2025, instead of its previous date of July 25, 2025. In turn, Fantastic Four will now be released on July 25, 2025, losing its May slot to the anti-hero movie.

Alongside the release dates, Marvel has alsoconfirmed Fantastic Four’s official castvia the studio’sTwitter account. The vintage-looking illustration showsThe Last of Us’ Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic),Napoleon’s Vanessa Kirby as Susan ‘Sue’ Storm Richards (Invisible Woman), The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Benjamin Grimm (The Thing) andStranger Things’ Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm (The Human Torch), all making up our new Fantastic Four. Marvel is keeping the storyline under wraps for now, but the retro posterand inclusion of a 1963 copy of Life Magazine, tells us that the upcoming movie may be set in the ’60s.

As forThunderbolts, very little is known about the movie at this point other than The Thunderbolts are a group of MCU antiheroes rising in a world without The Avengers. Sebastian Stan reprises his role as Bucky Barnes, and Wyatt Russell as John Walker fromThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The cast also includes Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Harrison Ford (whois replacing William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross), and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri.

Both movies are set to release in 2025 as a part ofMarvel’s Phase 6.

As of now Thunderbolts is set to hit theatres on May 2, 2025, and Fantastic Four on July 25, 2025. While you wait, stay up to date with the MCU with our guide onhow to watch Marvel movies in order, and make sure to mark your calendars with all of theupcoming Marvel movies and TV showson the way in 2024 and beyond.

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