We
are just two weeks away from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but
there has already been some news regarding the third entry in the
Marvel franchise. The first is that director Anthony and Joe Russo
will return to helm the movie, the second is that it will open on May
6th,
2016 (the same date has Batman vs. Superman) and third that
screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are already
working on the script together with the Russo brothers.
While
promoting the upcoming film, the screenwriter duo let it slip where
in the material they are looking for the plot of the third film.
The
duo were asked by DoG:
Are
you going back to the comics for the next one and plan to adapt
another story, while incorporating the many threads left open at the
end of this one?
McFeely:
Oh
yeah, you can probably predict some of the threads we would like to
pick up again that we’ve laid out there. And we always go back to
the comics and dive back in and look at anything we’ve missed in
the last few years that might be relevant.
Markus:
We’ve
definitely set out on a more realistic road in the Cap movies, you
know. Even more grounded than in the other MCU movies. And so it kind
of rules out Cap fighting the Dinosaur Man or something like that.
There are some that aren’t gonna start and other ones that — I
mean there’s a couple we’re playing with right now that we really
want to take elements from. Which we’ll not reveal.
Oh,
come on.
Markus:
All
I’m saying is psychotic 1950s Cap.
Fans
of the comics know exactly what the duo is talking about, but for the
rest of us this probably doesn't mean a thing, but no worries let me
feel useful and share what I know about the storyline that Markus is
talking about, which probably is the crazier and riskier so far in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In
the 1950's Captain America was relaunched but to little effect. The
story had Cap and Bucky fight a communist Red Skull. When I say to
little effect, even Stan Lee sort of forgot about this arc in Caps
life. In 1964 Cap was revived once again and the story had Cap
awakening after being put in a state of suspended animation since the
end of WWII, which made the previous and forgotten run of the
character out of the official canon, until Steve Englehart's run of
the character in 1972 tried to explain what the hell happen in the
50's. The explanation was that “ an unnamed man and his teenaged
student had assumed both the public and private identities of the
original Captain America and Bucky as part of a government-sponsored
program which planned to replace the lost heroes to combat the “red
threat” (i.e. communism).” The issue was that the super soldier
serum they took was flawed and both started developing psychotic
breaks. In fear the government placed them in suspended animation
until they were revived years later to battle the current
iteration of heroes.
So
will we have Cap vs. Cap and Bucky vs. Bucky? Yes, no, maybe, because
in the 50's run Cap also assumed the identity of Grand Director, the
leader of a neo-nazi source, or did he? Well the guy that was masked
as Cap was in fact William Burnside a Steve Rogers and Captain
America creepy and obsessive fan (more on the character here).
Crazy
and daring. I so want to see this on screen.
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