The new official unused concept art for The Void from Marvel’s Thunderbolts* has been revealed.
On X, user (@belovabolts) shared an early look at the upcoming book Thunderbolts: The Art of the Movie, featuring The Void’s unused concept art in its dangerous creature form. This confirms that Marvel Studios initially planned to showcase The Void’s creature form in the movie but did not include it in the final version. See the images below.
In a recent interview with ComicBookMovie.com‘s Josh Wilding, director Jake Schreier revealed that his team experimented with multiple approaches for The Void, guided by Kevin Feige’s push to explore non-CG options. They initially tried to film Lewis Pullman in a way that felt organic, minimizing full CGI and using rotoscoping to preserve his performance.
Schreier also stressed the importance of doing “the simplest thing” to capture most of Pullman’s performance and make it feel authentic.
Schreier said, “Yeah, we experimented with everything. It was an exploration process of what that should look like. I think Kevin [Feige] really pushed us down this road of, ‘Can we do something photographic? Is there any non-CG way to do this?’ There really isn’t, not in a language that would fit with the rest of the film. But we were trying to do something where he was photographed in all the scenes, and with simplicity to it. He’s never CG. There is rotoscoping going on, but we were just trying to think of what’s the simplest thing we can do that will contain the most of Lewis’s performance, and we’ll feel the most of his performance in it.”
“I think in our movie, some of the more monstrous depictions of The Void… we explored some of those, where we would do red eyes. And then, all of a sudden, it felt like we had to swing so far in that ending in terms of being able to reach in and care for this person, or rescue them from this place, that it was always that balance of wanting this to be scary or spooky. We want it to be striking, but we also don’t want it to be at such a remove that you don’t feel you could go and rescue Bob from within that space.”
The film is directed by Schreier and stars Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Pullman as Sentry, and Geraldine Viswanathan as Mel.
“In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes — Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap — set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine — these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart — or find redemption and unite as something much more — before it’s too late?”
Thunderbolts* was released in the United States on May 2, 2025, as the final film of Phase Five of the MCU. The film has grossed $382 million at the worldwide box office.
Thunderbolts* is now available to stream on Disney+.
