‘Captain America 4’: Everything we know about Sam Wilson’s first movie in the character

Ever since Steve Rogers decided to travel to the past to grow old with Peggy Carter at the end of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, the future of Captain America has been up in the air. Steve wanted Sam Wilson, Falcon, to take up the shield as his successor but things were not going to be so easy. In Marvel they have dedicated an entire series to showing this relief in which, finally, after overcoming his initial doubts, the character of Anthony Mackie has decided to accept being the next Captain America. Does that mean that we will soon have ‘Captain America 4’?

It won’t be exactly soon, but yes, Sam Wilson’s first solo movie as the new Captain America has already been confirmed and its star, Anthony Mackie, has already closed the contract with Marvel.

That is everything we know about ‘Captain America 4’.

‘Captain America 4’: Release date

We have already warned that the film will take time to reach theaters. Although it is not confirmed to which phase of Marvel it will belong, everything indicates that all the films and series of this Phase 4 of Marvel will have to be released beforehand, which will still last during 2022 and much of 2023. So that it will not be until after Phase 5 has started (or about to do so) that we can seriously consider seeing ‘Captain America 4’.

Current production plansalways subject to change, are cStart shooting in May 2022 and finish filming in June, in Georgia. What, taking into account the production period, puts us, at the earliest, early 2024.

‘Captain America 4’: Synopsis

There is no official synopsis about what can happen in the first film with Sam Wilson as Captain America. Everything will depend on how the next Marvel movies and series progress, as well as Kevin Feige’s plans for the next Phase. Nevertheless, there are some loose ends of ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ ​​that the next movie will have to finish (in the event that it does not happen in a second season of the series, but there has been no news in this regard).

We will meet a Sam Wilson who will have to prove (and above all prove himself) that he is worthy of wearing the Captain America suit, which may lead to a timid inquiry into what it means for an African-American to wear the stripes and stars of the most patriotic character in comics.

There is also another essential difference between him and Steve Rogers. And is that Sam Wilson does not have superpowers. At the beginning of the year it was believed that during the next film we would see him acquire the powers that Falcon has in the comics. Namely: bird telepathy, which may not sound too impressive, but neither were Ant-Man powers and right now no one underestimates them anymore. However, producer Nate Moore has affirmed that the film will investigate precisely what it’s like to be a superhero when you don’t have superpowers:

“I think Wilson is not Steve Rogers, and that’s a good thing,” the producer said, “This new Cap is like Rocky to me. He’s going to be helpless in any situation. He’s not a super-soldier, he’s not a hundred years old, he’s not It has the Avengers…

Sam Wilson is a random guy and they plan to put him in trouble to see what he’s made of. “What makes someone Captain America?“, continues the producer, “My thesis is that it is not to be a super soldier. And I think we’re going to prove it with Mackie and Sam Wilson.”

There’s plenty to choose from in Marvel’s rogues gallery to put the new Captain America on the ropes. So there is no need to retrieve Baron Helmut Zemo, who is in jail right now, but there is the writers may want to flesh out the arc of Peggy Carter’s granddaughter, Sharon Carterwho in ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ ​​we saw turned into a villain.

We also don’t know how the multiverse madness that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is entering will affect the Captain America franchise, so anything else regarding the villain of this new installment is pure speculation. However, fans are fantasizing about a showdown between Sinthia Schmidt and Falcon/Captain America. She is the daughter of the Red Skull, and there is no compelling evidence to consider her the next villain, but it is irresistible to think that the heir to Captain America will face the daughter of the enemy of the first of the films, ‘Captain America: The First avenger’.

‘Captain America 4’: Cast

Anthony Mackie He is the only actor confirmed for the moment for the film in the role of Sam Wilson, before Falcon and now Captain America. However, it is very likely that he will repeat other important characters from ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ ​​starting, of course, with the Winter Soldier himself played by Sebastian Star.

In addition to Sam Wilson’s friend, it is possible that we will see the John Walker of Wyatt Russellwho after his brief and disastrous period as Captain America could return as an antihero, as a villain or as a renewed and redeemed companion of falcon Cap and the Winter Soldier.

If he comes back, the film could also bring back Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the spy Valentina Allegra de Fountaine. Remember that this character appeared in the fifth chapter of the series before the recently stripped John Walker of the mantle of Captain America, to show him her sympathy and promise that her organization could help him. At the end of the series, she gave him a new suit and named him US Agent. In addition, after the series we have seen the character again in a post-credits scene of ‘Black Widow’, which guarantees that Marvel has plans to continue developing her character.

It could also return, as we have said, Emily VanCamp in the role of Sharon Carter. How will the character evolve?

But the big question for every fan is not about Sharon Carter, or about Valentina, or even about Sam Wilson, but about whether or not Chris Evans will return, even if it’s on a piece of paper… It seems, however, quite unlikely. According to dead lineIf there is a return of Chris Evans in the UCM, it will be in a different movie. And it is that we have already seen in ‘What if…’ that with the multiverse everything is possible, even a future encounter -for another movie perhaps- between Sam Wilson’s Capi and Steve Rogers’ Capi.

‘Captain America 4’: Director and writers

At the command of history we are going to meet with Malcolm Spellmannthe creator of ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’, who will write the script for the next film of his characters together with another of the series’ writers, Dalan Musson. To Musson we owe, precisely, the fifth and best chapter of the adventures of Falcon, so it has been an excellent choice.

It has taken longer to know the director of the film, confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter in July 2022. It will be the Nigerian-American Julius Onah, whom we know from ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’, a film that, truthfully, had a mediocre reception of public and disastrous of critics. In 2019 he improved, at least in terms of his relationship with critics, with the highest rated but least watched ‘Luce’, an adoption drama starring Naomi Watts, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth.

‘Captain America 4’: Trailer, images, poster

Nothing here at the moment. The film is currently in pre-production and we won’t even see photos from the shoot until summer of next year. When that happens, you’ll have them here.