‘Captain America 4’ first look sends Anthony Mackie into ‘Brave New World’

Anthony Mackie has a pleasant bone to select with Tom Holland. In a viral second captured at a fan conference in 2021, the Spider-Man actor joked that his fellow MCU star would not have his personal Falcon film. Effectively, that is about to vary with Captain America: Courageous New World, the brand new Marvel movie headlining Mackie’s Sam Wilson as the following star-spangled hero.

May Mackie really feel the necessity to gloat? “No. He did that on a really public stage, so I’ll maintain that until the premiere,” the actor playfully tells Leisure Weekly in an interview at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. “I’ll make it possible for Marvel makes him come to the premiere, after which I’ll sit him subsequent to me, and I’ll watch him watch the film.”

He is received a while earlier than that occurs, however till then, EW can completely reveal the primary official pictures of Captain America: Courageous New World, set to hit theaters on Feb. 14, 2025.

Mackie headlined the Disney+ sequence The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Sam Wilson (a.ok.a. Falcon) reverse Sebastian Stan‘s Bucky Barnes. The occasions of that sequence started Sam’s journey in direction of choosing up Steve Rogers’ vibranium protect and assuming the mantle of the following Captain America. Now, Sam is again to steer his personal film, directed by Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox).

Not solely that, he is right here to assemble a brand new crew of Avengers.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige hit the stage on the Colosseum in Caesar’s Palace throughout CinemaCon on Thursday, the place he welcomed Mackie himself and screened the primary footage from the film for the room.

In it, Harrison Ford makes his Marvel debut as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, a task originated by the late William Hurt beginning in 2008’s The Unimaginable Hulk and persevering with right through to 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, the place the character served as Secretary of State. Ross is now the newly elected President of america, although he is not butting heads a lot with the brand new Cap.

Revealed within the CinemaCon sneak peek, Ross welcomes Sam to the White Home, thanking him for his previous heroic actions. Although he admits he is not too keen on superheroes, he says even he can acknowledge Sam’s goodwill and duties the navy veteran with reforming Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. However, as they quickly notice, there is a leak in Ross’ inside circle.

An odd sound — an outdated well timed tune — interrupts Ross’ presentation at a White Home occasion, triggering sleeper super-soldiers within the room to assault the President, together with Carl Lumbly‘s Isaiah Bradley, getting back from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

“It made extra sense for it to be extra of a grounded espionage motion film versus aliens and airplanes coming via portals and s—,” Mackie tells EW. “Though I have been in so lots of them and have seen all of it now, the chance for Sam to essentially set up himself as a real motion star and Avenger comes with this film.”

Courageous New World, Mackie provides, feels “10 instances larger” than The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. “One of many greatest conversations we had from the start was for this to not be Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Half 2, for this to be its personal film with its personal story, with its personal characters,” he continues. Although, Mackie admits it is nonetheless considerably of a two-hander.

As a substitute of palling round with Stan’s Bucky, Sam is within the thick of it with Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres, the character’s tech-savvy “good friend from work” and one other iteration of Falcon from the comics. “They’re evenly yoked,” Mackie explains. “They’re each navy guys. I used to be his commanding officer. Now we have extra of a friendship versus the best way I admired Steve or the best way I did not like Bucky.”

That very same background is why Ford’s Ross holds Sam in larger esteem than Steve. On the identical time, Mackie notes, “There may be that concept of preserving your guard up and watching your again in terms of one another.”

Ross is not the one throwback to The Unimaginable Hulk. Not counting Shira Haas as Ruth, a member of the U.S. Authorities, Liv Tyler is again enjoying Ross’ daughter, Betty, whereas Tim Blake Nelson reprises Samuel Sterns, a.ok.a. the Chief, who was final seen being taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody after Banner’s blood precipitated him to mutate in that 2008 film. Mackie would not consider Marvel followers have to rewatch The Unimaginable Hulk to arrange for Courageous New World.

“This film is a transparent reset. It actually reestablishes the concept of what this universe is and what this universe goes to be,” Mackie says. “I believe with these motion pictures, you are getting a transparent, new branding of what Marvel is headed in direction of the identical manner they did with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

The title says all of it: Courageous New World, a seeming reference to the basic Aldous Huxley novel. “The title implies that there is a new, larger enemy now; there is a new frontier that we’ve to beat,” Mackie notes. “From Captain America: The First Avenger to Endgame, the enemy was all the time good versus unhealthy. Now that we have conquered that, the place will we go from right here? When the unhealthy guys reappear, in what type are they reappearing? It’s a new storyline with new characters, with new beliefs, and it creates a brand new concept of this new world that we’re going into.”

And he’ll be certain Holland has a front-row seat to all of it.

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