Marvel’s Phase Two is already well underway with production on Iron Man 3 nearing an end and filming on Thor: The Dark World just getting started. The next film on the studio’s docket is Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Chris Evans recently revealed that filming on the Cap sequel begins in March of next year. Though the title of the film gives fans a pretty big hint as to where the follow-up will go, we’re still pretty in the dark with regards to plot specifics.
Steve recently sat down with Evans at the Toronto Film Festival to talk about the serial killer drama The Iceman, and the actor talked quite a bit about Winter Soldier. Evans revealed that the film will get into a lot of stuff that was explored in cut scenes from The Avengers, talked about how far in advance he knew that the sequel would delve into the Winter Soldier storyline, and even teased a possible cameo in Thor 2. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Fans of the comics know that The Winter Soldier subtitle refers to a comics arc that finds a brainwashed Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) as the Russian assassin antagonist for Captain America. Steve asked Evans if he’s read the Winter Soldier storyline, to which the actor responded:
“Oh, I am fully up to date with my comics. I know all about it. Kevin Feige was talking about [Winter Soldier] when we were filming the first Captain America and well before The Avengers. During the first Captain America we were talking about potential futures and, you know, I don’t want to give too much way.”
Steve followed up by asking if Evans knows, hypothetically, where the third film might go, to which the actor slyly replied, “Maybe.”
Though Evans was remiss to get into plot details, he did reveal that much of Cap’s scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor of The Avengers is fodder for the sequel:
“The most I am looking forward to is exploring a little bit of Steve’s…they had all those deleted scenes with The Avengers because a lot of those scenes are for Captain 2, you know what I mean? It was good stuff, but it all felt like that was his story. It is a different movie. With The Avengers there was so much to cram in. Like I said, it was a long movie anyway. So I think making it any longer would have just been exhausting.”
We’ll see a lot of Joss Whedon’s deleted scenes on The Avengers Blu-ray, but one cut sequence that landed online a little early was wholly centered on Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world. We saw him going through files of all his deceased friends and thinking about the still-alive Peggy, and the dramatic scene was a nice touch but it did feel like something that would be best explored in Cap’s own sequel:
“A lot of that stuff [that was cut] is for Captain America 2. That is his story. It is him trying to on a personal level adjust to the fact that everyone he knows is gone and the whole Peggy Carter of it all. There are a lot of things that he kind of has to come to terms with. So I don’t know. I am excited to kind of see flashes of the first Captain, if you know what I mean, and to see his memory of what we now know as an audience of who he was.”
It’s no secret that Marvel has locked their actors down to appear in a large number of movies, and the studio makes full use of those contracts by having characters pop up in different films. Evans is locked for six, and he told Steve that he’d like to make a cameo in Thor: The Dark World:
“[Chris] Hemsworth and I even talked about that. I would love to do a little thing in Thor 2. It is obviously going to be tricky trying to work out the plot, the reason why I am not there to help him, and why he is not there to help me. But the best thing about Marvel is that, like I said, the movies were so good and we had such a good time making them.”
Obviously this is in no way a confirmation that Captain America is going to show up in Thor 2, but it’s nice to see Evans enthusiastic about playing around in the Marvel universe. Look out for Steve’s full 20-minute interview with Evans later this week. Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens on April 4th, 2014.
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The Winter Soldier storyline was good, but the Bucky reveal was a giant eye-roll. Comic book stunt casting.
You don’t bring back Gwen Stacy, Superman’s parents, or Bucky Barnes. That’s just comic book common sense.
Well, thanks for giving that away- tool.
He didn’t give it away. It was mentioned quite plainly in the article above.
I agree about Gwen Stacey and Supe’s parents, but Bucky was not a civilian, and in comics there is always room to bring back heroes.
You aren’t a real comic book fan if you don’t know the story behind Gwen Stacey coming back and that it was actually a big “F U” to marvel fans that sent in hate mail after they killed her the first time and they brought her back specifically to kill her off again as a jab at fans.
Even if that was the original COMIC BOOK plot
I’m not well-versed in the actual comic books themselves, I just really loved the first Captain America movie, so if anyone could help me that’d be great — without spoiling anything, is the whole “why the person who happens to be Winter Soldier is alive” thing explained in a way that is at least somewhat believeable, or is it as completely ridiculous/stupid as some people claim it is?
It’s pseudo-sciency enough, though I’m sure they’ll change a few things.
I believe in the comics the character in question was found by the Russians after his suppose death and brainwashed into becoming an assassin; one whom they kept alive through cryogenic freezing throughout the decades, bringing him out for specific missions that typically took place in the winter. This came to a point where he was a bit of a legend, referred to as the “Winter Soldier.”
Will the Winter Soldier take place before or after avengers?
All of the standalone Marvel sequels coming up (IM3, The Dark World, Winter Soldier) take place after The Avengers. The Avengers basically took place almost immediately after Thor and the end of Captain America anyway.
That jives with what I’ve heard about timing too, but I also heard that CAWS will include “flash backs” over the decades. Presumably this will help explain the whole Winter Soldier thing.
I’d say Thor is a good few months before The Avengers. Note the difference between Thor and Loki’s hair in each of the films, it’s far longer in Avengers, especially Loki’s.
i just really hope they fix up the captain america costume. it was really well done in the first movie but the version shown in the avengers was so funny it was near impossible to take seriously!
Hopefully they’ll fix the helmet, at least. The rest was actually ok.
I don’t understand the LOVE FEST for the first costume. it was too clunky and baggy. he would look ridiculous in the middle of a city or sprinting through a city with that baggy suit on. maybe do something about the helmet but don’t go backwards with the suit. it looked good in the past…keep it there.
IMO Caps costume in Avengers was *supposed* to look a bit … naff, remember Coulson (a big Cap geek) had that line like “I had some design input”. That’s how it appeared to me anyway…
I have every confidence that his modern day costume in CAWS will look appropriately contemporary.
I suspect that the Avengers Cap uniform was supposed to have some kind of thin, flexible body armor panels in those raised sections (less obtrusive than the Nolan Batman suits)… a high-tech flak jacket and matching pants. Some descriptions of the Cap uniform in the comics indicate that the blue portion of the tunic is some kind of chain mail or scale mail (armor with thin, overlapping “scales” to allow flexibility in spite of a significant thickness of metal), but it usually appears to be cloth when they show it torn up.
Both the “First Avenger” and “Avengers” versions were preferable to the Adam West Batman plain Spandex or the Daredevil fitted leather jacket types.
Are there any other better arc than about Bucky?
Cap’s modern suit has a bulletproof scale armor underneath the uniform. I think having some outer plates, like the Batman suit in the Chris Nolan movies, would translate better to film.