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The Daily Gambit Issue #3779 19th Mar, 2024

Captain America 3 may veer from the comic books

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With the successes of ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ and ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ under their belts, the talented Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely spoke to SFX about the third instalment for the all-american super soldier.

When asked about whether the tone of The Winter Soldier would be carried through into the third film, Christopher and Stephen had this to say:

CM: Well, that’s the challenge! But we are working on something that I think is an amalgalm.

SM: When we hit upon the Brubaker run of the comic book, we all said that, with certain exceptions,that’s the tone of Cap’s modern franchise. And you can imagine that with us back, with the Russos back, then if you like Winter Soldier you’ll hopefully like the third one, if we do it right!

SFX then went onto the topic of characters in The Winter Soldier and asked if there were characters that both of them were keen on but couldn’t fit in:

CM: I don’t know if there’s anybody that we had in the wings that we couldn’t pull off. There are people that I’m always wanting to bring in. I want to put Modok into something, but you can’t just drop a giant floating head in! It’s not like “Oh, we have to go talk to this guy – there’s something I should tell you about him first…” [laughs]. Suddenly the whole movie needs to take on that structure in order to accommodate him. I never win that fight!

SM: But you will never rest.

CM: There were actually drafts where we had Hawkeye in it, but he didn’t have enough to do and suddenly it seemed like we were giving him short shrift. Hey, it’s a cameo!

SM: Natasha was doing a lot of that work for us.

In the most current run of the Captain America comics Falcon has stepped into Cap’s boots and Christopher and Stephen were asked if those sort of shake-ups could make it onto the screen.

SM: We tend to stay on the sidelines when it comes to the comics. We wait and see what we’ll steal from in three or four years from now! [laughs].

CM: I think the movies can accommodate almost anything, if there’s a need. I think there is a much greater need to shake things up in the comics because that’s a narrative that’s been going on for 60 or 70 years, so you’re going to wind up having to do things to it. Ours has only been off the ground for five or so. So it’s not quite time to start changing things up yet. Plus I can’t figure out how he’s going to have the wings and the shield at the same time. Isn’t it going to get all crammed up on the wing? I don’t know… When those things happen in the comics you also have a tendency, perhaps cynically, to go “Yeah, but he’s going to be Steve Rogers in two months…” He’s going to wake up out of cryo-stasis or whatever it is and it’s going to be like “Oh, I need the shield back”. [laughs].

SM: We’re all so cynical.

It looks like Anthony Mackie won’t be getting the call to suit up any time soon, but the outlook looks good for the third film with Christopher and Stephen on-board.

With all that being said, and I know Captain America 3 has been slotted for awhile, but with Joss Whedon saying that there will be deaths in ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’, does this mean that Steve Rodgers will survive the battle? Or will he be a broken man and pass the mantle onto Bucky who is already a well cemented character in the MCU?

As abrupt as it sounds, the third film isn’t released until 2016, and the theory isn’t that strange as this has already happened in the comic books and doesn’t contradict the writers stance on the comics because Bucky made his first appearance as Captain America in 2008 (“We wait and see what we’ll steal from in three or four years from now!”)……………food for thought until Age Of Ultron hits the cinemas next year.

 

 

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