Who will be the next Captain America?
That’s the big question left to the new Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, premiering exclusively on OSN in March 19, which picks up where Avengers: Endgame left off.
In the 2019 film, which became the highest grossing of all time that year, we saw the saga of Steve Rodgers come to a close, as he went back to the past, married the woman that he’d left behind when he was accidentally frozen in ice for decades, and allowed himself to live the life he always dreamed of.
When we last saw Rodgers, he was an old man, ready to pass his iconic shield to his partner Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), also known as The Falcon, signalling that he should be the next Captain America. Wilson was not ready to take on the mantle at the time, but time would tell if he would reject the honour or take on the role his friend wanted for him.
Sources have told SlashFilm that ultimately Wilson will be the one to become Captain America in the series, but the new trailer, which debuted during the Super Bowl, teases that it could go the other way.
In one sequence, Wilson throws Cap’s shield, only to have The Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, played by Sebastian Stan catch it.
In the Marvel comic books, both have, at one point, donned the mantle of Captain America.
Deadline reported in January that Chris Evans will return to the MCU as Captain America in a future project, though Chris Evans tweeted that the return was “news to me.”
The trailer also features the return of Sharon Carter (Emily Van Camp), who previously appeared in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, as well as Daniel Brühl’s return as Baron Zemo, the villain from the latter film and mainstay of Captain America comic books, with a hint he will be donning his iconic purple face mask.
The series seems to continue the tone and production values set in the Captain America trilogy of films, this time with Wilson and Barnes as partners and rivals in a classic buddy action comedy dynamic.
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