A covert strike team assembled by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) after a shadow operation begins stockpiling dangerous Stark and HYDRA-era technology. With the Avengers scattered and public trust in heroes fading, Val recruits a deniable squad the world already sees as broken: Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker / U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko). They’re promised redemption through a single black-op mission—destroy the tech and walk free. But the mission is a lie. As they tear through black markets and abandoned facilities, the team realises they were never meant to win—only to prove that flawed, controllable weapons can replace heroes.

otsoNY Comments: As with most of the superhero films made from the 2000s, the majority of New York-based scenes are digitally enhanced and in most cases, the scenes are not actually shot in New York City.

otsoNY Comments: For the scene which shows a van driving along 6th Avenue between West 49th and 50th streets, the interior shots were likely to have taken place on a soundstage.

6th Avenue (btw West 49th and 50th Streets) Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: Thunderbolts* does use real New York footage, and the Big Apple appears via exteriors, helicopter shots, and street-level backgrounds, later reimposed on the scenes filmed in Atlanta.

West 45th Street (btw Vanderbilt Avenue and Park Avenue) Manhattan.