With Iron Man 3 only weeks away Phase 2 of Marvel‘s Cinematic Universe is so close we can taste it! Not that I’d recommend tasting it, probably tastes like some strange mixture of Tony Stark’s leftover whiskey and Hulk’s sweaty shorts. Nah, who am I kidding? Tony wouldn’t have leftover whiskey. That’s crazy talk.

Anyway, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is currently filming, with its release date set for April 4th, 2014. On Monday night they were filming in Los Angeles and JFX Online was there to snap a few pictures of a scene between Cap (Chris Evans) and Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson). Browse through the gallery below, and take note of the new costume Cap’s wearing,

All right, if you did what you were told you would have noticed that new costume of Cap’s looks an awful like what he’s wearing in the Secret Avengers series, as pointed out by Screen Rant. The new costume also officially marks him as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., a role we’ll seen Cap take on in this sequel. There’s a change to Black Widow’s look, too. Johansson is rocking straight, red locks as opposed to the curlier look she’s had in both Iron Man 2 and The Avengers. Again, it’s a change that aligns her more with the comic book interpretation to her character.

What do you think is going on in this scene? It’s an action scene for sure, just look at those harnesses and wires.

Are you excited for The Winter Soldier? How do you think Cap’s official involvement with S.H.I.E.L.D. will pan out? Maybe we’ll see some crossover with Joss Whedon’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I wouldn’t hold your breath, but maybe.

Source: JFX Online via CBM

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With the whole Marvel Phase 2 thing dominating the way that upcoming movies in that circle are being put together, people are naturally wondering how each story is going to tie into the rest of them.  With Captain America: The Winter Soldier on the way, one major question is how the Cap. is going to run solo after being put in charge of the Avengers.  After all, he’s got a whole team to work with, right?  Why try to take on the bad guys alone when you have a Hulk to throw at them?  Well, the writers of the new flick, Christopher Markus and the unfortunately named Stephen McFeely had a few words to share about just that subject.  Check out what they had to say after the jump.

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Principal photography began today for directors Anthony & Joe Russo’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Disney has already released the first image along with a press release announcing the production’s under way. The entire release is below the still and confirms the return of Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan and new comers Robert Redford, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Georges St. Pierre as well as a few others.

There’s not much to see in the still, but just seeing Cap with his shield on his back is a treat for this long time Captain America fan. The hidden gem in the press release is the increased size of the role that Scarlett Johansson‘s Black Widow will play:

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will pick-up where “Marvel’s The Avengers” left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.”

The Shadowy enemy is the Winter Soldier of course. I’m looking forward to the fight scenes between Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Cap. Those should be a hell of a lot of fun.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens April 4, 2014.

Following in the footsteps of the record-breaking Marvel Studios’ release, “Marvel’s The Avengers,” production on the highly anticipated release, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” has commenced in Los Angeles, Calif., with production also including locations in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington D.C. Directing the film is the team of Anthony and Joe Russo (“Welcome to Collinwood”) from a screenplay written by Christopher Markus (“Captain America: The First Avenger”) & Stephen McFeely (“Captain America: The First Avenger”). Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” returns Chris Evans (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”) as the iconic Super Hero character Steve Rogers/Captain America, along with Scarlett Johansson (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Iron Man 2”) as Black Widow and Samuel L. Jackson (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Iron Man 2”) as Nick Fury. In addition, film icon Robert Redford has joined the all-star cast as Agent Alexander Pierce, a senior leader within the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is set for release in the U.S. on April 4, 2014.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will pick-up where “Marvel’s The Avengers” left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” features an outstanding supporting cast that includes Sebastian Stan (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Black Swan”) as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie (“The Hurt Locker,” “Million Dollar Baby”) as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Cobie Smulders (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” “How I Met Your Mother”) as Agent Maria Hill, Frank Grillo (“Zero Dark Thirty”) as Brock Rumlow and Georges St-Pierre (“Death Warrior”) as Georges Batroc. Rounding out the talented cast are Hayley Atwell (“Captain America: The First Avenger”) as Peggy Carter, Toby Jones (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “The Hunger Games”) as Arnim Zola, Emily VanCamp (“The Ring 2,” “Revenge”) as Agent 13 and Maximiliano Hernández (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Thor”) as Agent Jasper Sitwell.

Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige is producing the film. Executive producers on the project include Alan Fine, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee. The creative production team on the film includes director of photography Trent Opaloch (“Elysium,” “District 9”), production designer Peter Wenham (“21 Jump Street,” “Fast Five”), editors Jeffrey Ford, A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. (“Star Wars: Episode 7,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”) and three time Oscar®-nominated costume designer Judianna Makovsky (“The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”)

Marvel Studios’ upcoming release schedule includes “Iron Man 3” on May 3, 2013, and “Thor: The Dark World” on November 8, 2013. The studio most recently produced the critically acclaimed “Marvel’s The Avengers,” which set the all-time, domestic 3-day weekend box office record at $207.4 million. The film, which shattered both domestic and international box office records, is Disney’s highest-grossing global and domestic release of all time and marks the studio’s fifth film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.

In the summer of 2011, Marvel successfully launched two new franchises with “Thor,” starring Chris Hemsworth, and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” starring Chris Evans. Both films opened #1 at the box office and have grossed over $800 million worldwide combined. In 2010 “Iron Man 2,” starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury took the #1 spot in its first weekend with a domestic box office gross of $128.1 million.

In the summer of 2008, Marvel produced the summer blockbuster movies “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk.”  “Iron Man,” in which Robert Downey Jr. originally dons the Super Hero’s powerful armor and stars alongside co-stars Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub and Gwyneth Paltrow, was released May 2, 2008, and was an immediate box office success. Garnering the number one position for two weeks in a row, the film brought in over $100 million in its opening weekend.  On June 13, 2008, Marvel released “The Incredible Hulk,” marking its second number one opener of that summer.

Via: /Film

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Phase Two of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is about to kick off with Shane Black‘s Iron Man 3 hitting theater screens everywhere on May 3rd. The production team at Marvel studios is still hard at work on the other pieces of Phase Two, The Avengers 2, Thor 2, Captain America 2, and the new comer to the bunch, Guardians of the Galaxy.

The President of Production at Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, recently talked with the Italian magazine Best Movie about why the studio decided to include Guardians to the Phase Two movie roster:

“[For a] long time that we wanted to bring in a movie and adventure set entirely in space. We immediately liked the idea of making a movie based on a comic mostly unknown by people [...] that present[ed] various superheroes in one movie.

“Although it’s set up from another part of the universe, a human will be in a superhero role of Peter Quill, played by Chris Pratt. There will be lots of characters: from a sexy warrior to an animated tree [to] a raccoon with a gun. It’s a unique franchise and we are pleased that it’s so different from what we have done so far.”

While the majority of the work being done today is focused on Phase Two, some are looking forward to Phase Three and which established characters will return.

“Currently, the third phase is still developing. 99.9% of our time is used for Phase 2, the development of ‘The Avengers 2′ and the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ keeps us very busy. Definitely we’re not leaving aside the old glories and we can also see familiar faces such as Iron Man, Thor and Captain America.”

Along side the already established movie characters some more comic book favorites are joining the lineup. Edgar Wright’s long-discussed Ant-Man and word is that Doctor Strange (A favorite of Feige) will be making a, hopefully triumphant, return to the big screen.

Yep, there was a Doctor Strange TV movie back in 1978 starring Peter Hooten as Dr. Stephen Strange, Sir John Mills as Lindmer “The Ancient One”, Clyde Kusatsu as Wong, and Jessica Walter as Morgan Lefay. You can take a look at part one below, it’s painful, but really makes one wonder at what today’s special effects wizards can do with the subject matter that were impossible back when this was made.

“Dr. Strange! I love the aura of mystery that surrounds this superhero and the magical world that surrounds him. We’ve never faced anything like this and there is a lot of material that we could exploit. I would love to also see a new superhero in the ranks of the Avengers. We shall see!”

Phase Three is scheduled to commence after the release of The Avengers 2 in May 2015, while Dr. Strange has yet to officially receive a release date. Which movies are you most looking forward to? Is there a character that you’d like to see that has not been on screen yet?

Iron Man 3 releases May 3rd, 2013, Thor: The Dark World on November 8th, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4th, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1st, 2014, The Avengers 2 on May 1st, 2015, Ant-Man on November 6th, 2015, and Doctor Strange sometime after that.

Via: Screenrant

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There’s big news hitting the Internet about Marvel Studios upcoming sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Robert Redford is in talks to join the cast. Sources are saying that Redford would play an older member of the super secret government spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D..

If you recall Ed Brubaker‘s Winter Soldier story line than you know that Bucky Barnes, Cap’s sidekick, was not killed in World War II, but recovered and brain washed by the Soviets, who then turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier; a super-secret-soviet-spy-assassin.

Perhaps Redford’s character will be the agent who has been trying to track down the Winter Soldier all those years or he could be playing a character much like the Gareth Mallory Skyfall role played by Ralph Fiennes.   Mallory was a government liaison to the spy department, that later became M’s replacement in the James Bond movie.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing the movie, which stars Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Frank Grillo, Cobie Smulders, and Samuel L. Jackson.

What do you think about this news? We got Tommy Lee Jones in the first Captain America movie, if nothing else it does give younger fans a talking point to convince their mom to take them to the movie.

Via: THR

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Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, was a tour de force in silver screen superiority by Marvel/Disney. As a sign of rinse, lather and repeat, Marvel is doing it all over again with it’s next phase of films.

Their cinematic excellence, in super hero films,  will be tested in Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2, Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers 2. If all goes as planned, and it very well should, Marvel will then implement it’s 3rd phase.

Phase 3: Let’s get weird…

Marvel’s talking head Kevin Feige (pronounced “fayGAY”) spoke with MTV News about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Little big man and something strange in the neighborhood…

Ant-Man is definitely part of Phase Three. Like Iron Man 3, it’s certainly set in the Marvel Universe, but it’s also through the lens of Edgar Wright — which is the only reason we’re making the movie. [...] It’s very much an Ant-Man origin movie from the perspective of Edgar Wright and his co-writer Joe Cornish. It will of course be firmly planted in the MCU, but a different corner than we’ve seen before.

While Phase One culminated in the formation of the Avengers, and Phase Two will lead up to the Avengers sequel, Phase Three seems to be, well, a little stranger.

So much of the stories we’re telling [right now] is about the core Avengers characters we’ve now met, and they’ll be evolving in big, surprising ways, in Cap’s next movie and Thor’s next movie and of course in Iron Man 3, as we get them all into the next Avengers film. Beyond that… Ant-Man is the only one officially announced, but you probably don’t have to look too far to guess at the next list of characters we’re toying with and beginning to develop.

And that, Feige confirmed, includes Doctor Strange.

Doctor Strange, which I’ve been talking about for years, is definitely one of them. He’s a great, original character, and he checks the box off this criteria that I have: he’s totally different from anything else we have, just like Guardians of the Galaxy. He’s totally different from anything we’ve done before, as is Ant-Man, which keeps us excited.

This is all well and good. But, honestly Marvel, I’m surprised at you. Doctor Strange is getting a movie before Black Panther? I’m not trying to pull a race card or anything, but I guess white guys with epic mustachios will always come before a brother, right?

Although, I must say, I’m far more excited about the sorcerer supreme than poor wittle Ant-Man. I, for one, don’t see the appeal in a microscopic sized dude running through air ducts and shit. On the other hand, Disney’s take on wife beating should be… interesting.

Source: MTV News

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While Captain America: The First Avenger wasn’t the stunning “marvel” fans expected, many people liked the connection between Steve Rogers and British agent, Peggy Carter. Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell both played their roles wonderfully, but with Cap’s forced cryogenic freeze and revival in the 21st century we never got to see what could have been – and we never will.

Viewers of The Avengers deleted scenes will know Peggy is alive and well, just a little old for Rogers. He might not want to show her his bald eagle is what I’m getting at. Unless Hayley is willing to undergo some prosthetic facial work for Captain America: The Winter Soldier her cameo is non-existent and will require recasting by directors Anthony and Joe Russo. According to TimeOut however, Atwell will have no part in The Winter Soldier whatsoever.

Now this isn’t due to casting issues or scheduling conflicts with Atwell, she simply will not return. Hit the jump for her response.
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Welcome to another evening addition of “NerdBastards Latest Marvel Movie Rumors.”  Today on the agenda – Captain America 2 and Avengers 2.  According to GeekTyrant, there’s a guy by the name of Roger Wardell that has an inside track on what’s going on with all things Marvel “Phase 2”.  And according to Wardell’s tweeting, he has some news concerning the aforementioned movies’ stories.

Best to be warned, if these rumors are true, then they are actually spoilers.  Read at your own risk.

First the Avengers 2 tweets:

Inside News: The Masters of Evil will feature in The Avengers 2.

Inside News: The Avengers was about assembling to save the world, but in Avengers 2 the team will be assembling to save themselves.

And next, Captain America: The Winter Soldier:

Inside News: Captain America 2 will feature flashbacks of Black Widow’s past and her complicated relationship with the Winter Soldier.

But that’s all you get for now, dear readers.  Check back in a few days (or possibly hours) for all the latest leaking out from between the cracks of Hollywood.

Thanks to GeekTyrant for the update.

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There’s lots  of casting details coming out for Disney & Marvel‘s latest Captain America sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. First up is the casting of Frank Grillo (The Grey, Warrior) in the role of villain Crossbones.

Crossbones was created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Kieron Dwyer and started his criminal career under the tutelage of the henchmen trainer and villain Taskmaster, raising through the ranks to become an instructor at the Taskmaster school.  He ended up working for the Red Skull.

Some other well known faces will make appearances in the Captain America: The Winter Soldier sequel, reprising their roles from The Avengers are Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill. Also confirmed to be returning, as was long rumored, is Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes.

This is coming together and I expect this movie will really establish the S.H.E.I.L.D. importance in the Marvel Movie Universe, tying together the various heroes and villains.

Winter Soldier is one of my favorite story lines and I have high hopes that the story will translate well to the big screen. What do you think about these casting updates?

The film stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, and Anthony Mackie in the role of the Falcon, directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theater screens on April 4, 2014.

Via: Comingsoon

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The folks working on Captain America: The Winter Soldier are busy toiling away looking for faces to fill roles, and one role that looks like it may be filling up soon is that of the character Crossbones.  Who’s the lucky winner?  According to a series of tweets from both the actor and others, Frank Grillo (Prison Break) is the top man in the running.

In case you don’t know, Crossbones is a top-notch assassin and henchman for The Red Skull.  He also happens to be the guy who “assassinates” Steve Rogers during the post-Civil War storyline.  They could be using him as a warm-up villain before Cap has to take on the titular Winter Soldier, or perhaps even setting up something for a third Captain America flick.

Either way, we still have a year-and-a-half to wait, since Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier doesn’t show up til April 4^th, 2014.

Thanks to BleedingCool for the heads-up.

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