By Marvel Studios unveiled the first trailer and poster for their “Thunderbolts*” film earlier this week, and one detail within the film’s one-sheet quickly led to speculation the marketing team may have used A.I. to create the artwork according to CBM.
The one-sheet boasts numerous characters fighting amongst themselves, all crammed into the ‘frame’ of the poster art. In the lower left corner however, people suggest something strange about Sentry/Bob (Lewis Pullman).
In the art, the character’s hand has his fingers bent and partly out of frame in such a way that without looking closely, it could seem as if the hand has a thumb and five other fingers – a quirk A.I. image generators are infamous for.
Marvel infamously came under fire for use of A.I. generated imagery in the opening credits of its “Secret Invasion” series last year, and the trailer showed that Pullman’s character in the film has the standard thumb and four other fingers on each hand.
It didn’t take long however for others to point out that due to the angle the hand is positioned in, you can see it is the regular five digits on his hand after all with his pinky finger partly cut out by the side of the frame.
The talk got loud enough that Pullman was asked about it by Collider, and says the image did initially fool him too at first and ultimately he found the brief “controversy” fun:
“I’ve heard about the six-finger thing. But if you look closely, there’s actually no mistakes going on. I actually spent some time because I was like, ‘Did they give me a sixth finger?’ But they didn’t. It’s just cropped at the right point where it looks like there’s an extra tip happening or something. But that’s about it. I love that.”
The trailer has also generated talk about Avengers Tower from the films, with keen-eyed viewers of the trailer noticing that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine appears to be the new owner of the facility.
Check out the poster for yourself below. The film opens next Summer.
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