David Harbour Gives Us His Reaction To Thunderbolts* After Seeing A Cut Of The Movie, And He's Getting Me Very Excited
I like what he has to say.
In a few days, the upcoming DC TV show Creature Commandos will debut David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, a member of the title team whom the Stranger Things star will likely play on camera someday too given DC Studios’ preference of having its actors play their characters in both animated and live-action projects. Additionally though, Harbour is reprising Alexei Shostakov, a.k.a. Red Guardian, in Thunderbolts*, which we know will be the second MCU theatrical installment on the 2025 release schedule. While the public is roughly half a year from getting to see this upcoming Marvel movie, Harbour has already seen a cut of it, and after sharing his reaction to the flick with CinemaBlend, it’s getting me very excited for its arrival.
Our own Sean O’Connell spoke with David Harbour for the Creature Commandos junket, but as their conversation was winding down, Sean asked the actor, who’s played in both Marvel and DC’s proverbial sandboxes, how storytellers working within the superhero genre can keep things fresh. When it comes to Marvel, Harbour had this to say:
I was already intrigued after watching the first Thunderbolts* trailer, but David Harbour’s comment has be looking forward to what will be the 36th of the Marvel movies in order even more. It’s no secret that the MCU’s movies and TV shows have been a mixed bag in recent years, particularly when it comes to the overabundance of content, but Harbour believes that his next MCU appearance will have no trouble hooking people in. When Sean O’Connell mentioned how he saw the Thunderbolts* Hall H footage at this past summer’s San Diego Comic-Con and was impressed with the conversations shown between Alexei and Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova as “father” and “daughter”, Harbour perked up and said:
Alexei and Yelena are two of the anti-heroes who comprise the titular team, with the others include Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Wyatt Russell’s John Walker/U.S. Agent, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ava Starr/Ghost and Olga Kurylenko’s Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster. David Harbour continued by saying how it’s the tram dynamic that makes Thunderbolts*, which was directed by Jake Schreier, such a compelling watch. In his words:
Other important members of the Thunderbolts* cast include Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Lewis Pullman as Bob/Sentry, Geraldine Viswanathan as Mel, Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster and Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff, as well as Wendell Pierce and Chris Bauer in undisclosed roles. At one time it was also reported that Harrison Ford would reprise Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” ross in the movie, but now there are conflicting reports about this. You can revisit Alexei and Yelena’s MCU introductions now by streaming Black Widow with a Disney+ subscription.
Thunderbolts* hits the big screen on May 2, 2025, three months after the arrival of Captain America: Brave New World. And for all the people who have a Max subscription, you’ll be able to hear David Harbour’s Frankenstein in Creature Commandos starting on Thursday, December 5.
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Connoisseur of Marvel, DC, Star Wars, John Wick, MonsterVerse and Doctor Who lore, Adam is a Senior Content Producer at CinemaBlend. He started working for the site back in late 2014 writing exclusively comic book movie and TV-related articles, and along with branching out into other genres, he also made the jump to editing. Along with his writing and editing duties, as well as interviewing creative talent from time to time, he also oversees the assignment of movie-related features. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Journalism, and he’s been sourced numerous times on Wikipedia. He's aware he looks like Harry Potter and Clark Kent.