Thunderbolts* Director on if They’re the Same as Suicide Squad

The director of Thunderbolts*, Jake Schreier, recently revealed what makes Marvel’s anti-hero team different from DC’s Suicide Squad. The MCU movie starring Florence Pugh, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Olga Kurylenko released in theaters on May 2, 2025, in the United States. So far, it has received majorly positive reviews from critics and fans.

Jake Schreier confirms how Thunderbolts* are different from Suicide Squad

Director Jake Schreier sat down for a chat with Fortress of Solitude and spoke about Thunderbolts*. As the movie featured some of Marvel’s known anti-heroes, Schreier was asked about how Thunderbolts* was different from DC’s Suicide Squad, which was also a team-up of anti-heroes/supervillains brought together by a government official.

The director referred to the brilliant storytelling by Eric Pearson and executive producer Brian Chapek’s work on the movie and said, “Well, that was what was so smart about Eric Pearson’s script, and what Brian Chapek had developed with him, was that it had this twist on that. From the beginning, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine is sending them to kill each other, not to be some kind of rogue team to do black ops with. So, right from the get-go, I felt like that distinguished it.”

Schreier further emphasized that they decided to put more focus on the internal conflicts of the characters and stated, “It felt like we could make our mark by going into a much more internal character place, make it more about internal struggles than external ones, and find some level of difference there.”

The director also noted that the team in Thunderbolts* “felt more like people who might’ve thought they were the hero, or they were the lead – people like John Walker – and then things went quite awry.” Thus, this separated them from James Gunn’s Suicide Squad and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which were an “incredible group of misfits,” as per Schreier.

Originally reported by Ishita Verma on SuperHeroHype.

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