Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors
Anthony Russo and Joe Russo are continuing to
make the press rounds for Marvel's Phase Two
Blu-ray release on September 9. In doing so, the
filmmaking duo continue to drop new tidbits
about their impending sequel Captain America 3.
The brothers are returning to direct, with
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
currently writing the screenplay, the same team
behind Captain America: The First Avenger and
Captain America: The Winter Soldier . When
Robert Redford was revealed to be a villainous
character in Captain America: The Winter
Soldier , some thought he may be a present-day
version of Red Skull, a character who hasn't
been seen since escaping in Captain America:
The First Avenger .
In an interview with Screen Rant , when asked if
Red Skull could make a return to the MCU,
Anthony Russo wouldn't offer any specific story
details, he did hint that anything is possible in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe .
"We can't really comment specifically in terms of
where we're going with it, just because we don't
want to spoil anything for anybody. But
certainly, look. That's the great thing about the
Marvel universe, is anything is possible. All
these characters exist. And as we've seen on
the publishing side, there's very inventive,
creative ways to make characters relevant again
and surprising ways to make the characters
relevant again. He's a great character. Whether
or not he finds his way back I can't really say."
Anthony Russo hinted about how they may use
the Winter Soldier in their Marvel Phase Three
sequel.
"Here's the thing. The think we love about
Bucky is he's a really complicated character;
very tragic, complicated character. Here's a guy,
when you look at him, is he the world's worst
assassin or is he the longest serving POW in
history? You could look at him as one of two
things. Either he's innocent by reason insanity
or the equivalent of that, in terms of not being
responsible for his actions because he was
brain controlled, or he's a monster. It's a very
complicated place. It's a hard place to move
forward from that. In relationship to Cap, it's
like is Cap ever going to be able to access the
guy he used to be?"
Joe Russo added that their jobs as filmmakers
is to keep raising the stakes by bringing in a
bigger villain each time around, while
commenting on Bucky's identity issues.
"And if he can't, well who is Winter Soldier? Is
he Bucky Barnes anymore or is he somebody
knew? So those are all really interesting
questions to ask with him. It's our job on the
next one to outdo the villain from the last one.
But because that's a mandate of ours, it's
always something we put an incredible amount
of focus on. The stakes aren't high enough. The
audience doesn't feel those stakes. If the
characters aren't in jeopardy continually
throughout the film, then you lose a certain
narrative momentum to the movie. As we said,
you can only define the hero against the villain.
So the greater the villain, the greater definition
you get out of your hero."
In another interview with Entertainment Weekly,
when asked if the third installment will be vastly
different in tone from Captain America: The
Winter Soldier , Joe Russo had this to say:
"You have to work really hard to deliver
something different, and exciting, and
challenging. That's what we're in the middle of
on Cap 3 right now, pushing really hard to make
sure that what we deliver is something that's
gonna be different from Captain America: The
Winter Soldier . We're more grounded in the
world of Winter Soldier than Winter Soldier was
grounded in First Avenger . The difference
between First Avenger and Winter Soldier is that
seventy years has elapsed between the two
movies. Cap was waking up in a world that was
a million miles away from the one he came
from. That gave us a narrative motivation to
push the tonal and stylistic content of the world
forward. We don't have that same time elapsed
here. It's the world Cap woke up in still, even
though it's several years later and some other
significant events have happened. At the same
time, we are pushing Cap to a place he hasn't
been before."
When asked about what may be happening with
the Winter Soldier ( Sebastian Stan ), Anthony
Russo had this to say.
"Bucky's such a heartbreaking character. Is he
one of the world's worst assassins? Or is he the
world's longest-suffering POW? He's been
brain-controlled, so is he responsible for his
actions? Is he innocent, by reasons of insanity?
It's a rich, philosophically complex human
identity and relationship. And it becomes an
important question for Cap, a guy who's lost
everybody in his life now."
In another interview with Wall Street Journal
Speakeasy , Joe Russo confirmed that they do
have a subtitled in place for Captain America 3,
but they can't reveal what it is yet.
"We do have a subtitle. We're not going to
release it yet. We will shortly. We've got a
fantastic draft script in our hands. We're very
happy with it. [Christopher Markus and Stephen
McFeely] are back writing the sequel. They're
incredible writers. They did an amazing job with
what is basically a first draft. We're excited to
get to work on the draft and keep making it
better.
When asked if they plan on using characters
from the comics that haven't been seen in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe yet, Joe Russo
teased that Cap's universe will keep expanding.
"It's always exciting to put Cap in a situation
where he's dealing with other characters
because part of his super power is his morality,
and there's an inspirational quality to his
character. So it's nice to have characters
around him that he can inspire. Leadership is
also a key component of his, and you can't lead
unless you have other characters around. But
he's also got an expanding universe - Winter
Soldier, Agent 13, the Falcon - so there's
already a universe that's expanding around him.
It's exciting to mix that up, and we may or may
not have a few tricks up our sleeve, but that's
about all we can say without spoiling the story
for anybody."
Anthony Russo also spoke about how Avengers:
Age of Ultron will affect or influence the story
being told in Captain America 3 .
"We always react and adjust to the material,
and part of Marvel's secret formula is that you
keep working all the way until the time you
deliver the movie for exhibition. You keep
working to make it a better film. Things change
as you work. So we will definitely be watching
cuts of Avengers: Age of Ultron. We talk to
[Avengers director Joss Whedon ] when we can.
We talk to [Marvel Studios President Kevin
Feige ] when we can, just to get insight into
what they're doing, and what direction they're
headed, so it'll definitely impact us, without
question, from a narrative standpoint. From a
tonal standpoint, perhaps. It's hard to say."
When asked if they have seen any footage from
Avengers: Age of Ultron , Joe Russo revealed
they have only seen the Comic-Con footage.
"We've seen what everyone else has seen that
was at Comic-Con. We saw that incredible two
minutes of footage from it. It looks like the
biggest movie ever made, so we're very excited
for it. We have read the script. It's incredible. I
think Joss is going to blow people away with
this one."
At various points in the comic books, different
characters took up the Captain America mantle,
including The Falcon ( Anthony Mackie ) and The
Winter Soldier ( Sebastian Stan ). When asked if
they would be open to another character playing
Cap, Joe Russo had this to say.
"We would absolutely be open to it, if it is right
for the narrative. The thing that people have to
remember is that this is the Marvel cinematic
universe, it's not the publishing side, and it's a
medium that's much more compressed. You get
two hours to tell a story. Certain characters
have been in the comics for 40 or 50 years, and
so we have to make choices that service the
Marvel cinematic universe, and that doesn't
necessarily mean that publishing can influence
those choices we make because we may not
have the time to get the story to the place that
publishing did. Without question, we're open to
every- and anything that makes for an exciting
story."
When asked if they would ever consider
developing another property for Marvel, Joe
Russo mentioned Secret Wars , which the
director revealed was one of his favorite comics
in a separate interview earlier this week.
"we would be more than happy to work on more
Marvel properties. We love them all. It's
interesting because there's a lot of them being
explored at the moment. I think I mentioned to
someone yesterday that the Secret Wars was a
big influence on me when I was a kid. I love the
notion of crossovers. It's certainly a
complicated environment in respect to
characters being spread out amongst different
studios, and there's a lot of politics involved to
try to get characters to cross over. But for me
as a comic-book fan, that would be something
I'd want to see on the screen one day."
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