When Anthony Mackie was cast in the role of Captain America’s modern day partner, the Falcon, fans were excited to see this character brought to life on the big screen. Mackie recently talked about Captain America: The Winter Soldier and his role with EW.

It’s a cool story and brings in some amazing characters and the Falcon is one of the things that fans are already excited about.

It’s a movie that has kind of turned into a bigger-than-life opportunity for me. I’ve had these little milestones along the way and now to play a superhero and to work with people like Robert Redford, Sam Jackson, and Chris? It’s just turned into this amazing moment.

Mackie stressed that the Falcon didn’t wake up with or get bitten by some radioactive insect or other accidental method like so many other heroes:

He’s a really smart guy who went through major military training and becomes a tactical leader,  he’s not some guy that fell into this.

The Falcon’s personal code and character are another defining part of the role.

The most important thing I got from everybody at Marvel about the Falcon was the need to show that he’s a very righteous, man-forward kind of guy. He would do anything to protect the man next to him and to protect his country. That’s the integrity of the character and the integrity of the man and that that’s what I have focused on.

The biggest thing for me, the most exciting thing for me, is to come out on Halloween and see all the little black kids dressed up like the Falcon. There are so many parts of our society that are not catered to or represented fully and this will give a new generation of our society someone to look up to and identify with. That’s why I am so intensely focused on bringing the character to life in a special way.

I find myself liking what Mackie has to say about the character and Mackie’s own feelings about the Falcon and the Falcon’s importance in the Marvel Universe. As a huge Captain America fan, I’m really looking forward to this movie and the new characters.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, hits the big screen on April 4th, 2014.

Via: Comingsoon

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Although people like to scream bloody murder every time a filmmaker gives a classic hero a make-over, it hasn’t stopped them yet.  This time around, it looks like Captain America will be donning a new suit for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  Check out a few pics of what the Cap will look like below.

So why on Earth does the Captain need a new look?  Apparently, this redesign is supposed to be his S.H.I.E.L.D. outfit, a uniform of sorts to announce to friend and foe alike that he’s got Nick Fury backing him up.  As good an excuse as any, right?

But fanboys need not start in with the raging and poo-slinging just yet.  For it seems as if the Captain will only be using the new suit in part of the flick, returning to his old school uniform sometime later in the film.  Thus, we will get to see the Captain in a variety of stylish fashion options.

Check out the star-spangled soldier in all of his suit-ish glory when Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters next year on April 4^th.

Thanks to blastr for the heads-up.

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There’s some new concept art from the Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s production floating around the Internet. We’d had the partial look above, but now we get a much better full frontal of the concept art for Captain America’s new look.

What do you think? It’s not to crazy a leap from the original or the suit worn in The Avengers. Hopefully we’ll start seeing some pictures from the production set where Chris Evans is in full uniform and not the civvies we’ve seen him in so far.

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.

Via: Comicbookmovie

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: Artist Timothy Anderson re-imagined Star Wars as pulp fiction, the genre, not the movie (although that would be interesting!). You can purchase these fabulous prints right here. [Geeks Are Sexy] (more…)

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If you live in Cleveland, and you heard what you thought was the sound of gun fire and explosions today, don’t worry, it wasn’t an attack, at least not if you’re name is The Falcon or Black Widow. Yes, they were filming a scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier on the Memorial Shoreway overpass at West 3rd St. in Cleveland, and Cleveland.com (via Comic Book Movie) got some pictures of the shoot.

There’s a full photo gallery below, but what is it that they were filming? Excellent question, and Comic Book Movie did a nice little breakdown that may offer some slight spoilers, so read on at your own mitigated risk:

As you’ve seen in photos earlier today, the Winter Soldier is riding on top of a vehicle and in this vehicle are what appeared to be his personal armed posse. After the vehicle stops the minions get out with machine guns poised to fire and the Winter Soldier gets off the hood of the vehicle.

The Winter Soldier is carrying a grenade launcher and raises is at a vehicle that had both the doubles for the Black Widow and Falcon (or Sam Wilson, whichever way he is called in this film). He let’s off a blast. His fellows-in-arms open fire as well. Sadly, the photo taken of the Winter Soldier with the launcher was obscured and blurry.

Our heroes take cover from the blast and gunshots and it appeared they were preparing themselves for some hand-to-hand fighting versus the Winter Soldier and his armed buddies. Winter Soldier and his posse versus the Black Widow and Falcon?!

Not enough for you? Here’s some video.

Stay tuned for more on The Winter Soldier…

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Even though that one guy in the stylish cutoff jean shorts is clearly holding a sign saying ‘No Pictures Please!’ Not cool guys, not cool. That keygrip clearly spent at least 3 minutes making that sign.

While filming continues on Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier in Cleveland, a pack of ne’er-do-wells were hovering around the set trying to snap photos, according to the rumors, causing filming to halt and the shoot moved in doors free from the camera wielding rapscallions. Just not before one managed to get a rather clear shot of  Sebastian Stan in costume as the Cap’s former sidekick turned masked Winter Soldier.

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Being as dedicated as we are here at the Nerd Bastards, we go out of our way each and every day to provide you with the best set leaks possible.  This time around, we have some Marvel phase 2 pics coming at you from the set of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  The subject of said pics, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s finest, Nick Fury, and it looks like he’s been having a bit of a bad day.  Check them out after the jump.

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Above: A fratboy take on a classic scene from the Star Wars Trilogy by the skillful hand of Marco D’Alfonso. Currently part of the upcoming ”I Love You Man” art show at the Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. [XombieDIRGE]

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Well that didn’t take long. It seems that Robert Redford may have let slip a bit of serious spoilage in regards to his role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Poor guy. It’s worth noting that Redford doesn’t have a lot of experience on these big studio tentpoles in the age of internet journalism, so he didn’t know what he was in for. I mean, everyone knows that Butch and Sundance died in a shootout with the Bolivian military, right? RIGHT?!

We’ll get to Redford in a minute. In other Winter Soldier news, new cast member Anthony Mackie, AKA: Sam Wilson, AKA: The Falcon, talked about the size of role his character will play in the sequel. While talking to The Times-Picayune, Mackie said that he’s in about 60 per cent of the movie by his reckoning, but more than that, this thing is going to be so loaded with so many superheroes and super-stars, it’s going to feel like a sequel to another Marvel movie.

“Sam’s very involved. I’m in about 60 percent of the movie,” Mackie said. “Captain America, the Black Widow and The Falcon take down the Winter Solider together, and they solve the crime at hand and take down the Winter Soldier. So this movie, if you look at the cast, with everybody in (the fictional crime-fighting group) S.H.I.E.L.D. and (co-stars Robert) Redford and Sam Jackson and everybody who’s in the movie, it’s kind of turning into ‘The Avengers Part 2‘ because the cast is so big.”

Well, he just set the bar sky high.

As for Redford, he got caught spoiling by The Straits Time (then repeated by Here Be Geeks) with a potentially major reveal regarding his character Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. “I like the idea of playing a villain,” he said. “I did that just because it’s a different thing for me to do.”

Fair enough, but was Redford speaking generally, or will Pierce turn out to be a double agent, perhaps even playing key Winter Soldier antagonist Soviet  General Aleksander Lukin, who, unless I’m mistaken, hasn’t been cast (or had his casting announced) yet.

More news as it develops.

Source: Comic Book Movie

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There’s lots of news in the wake of Marvel‘s release of Iron Man 3. Will Robert Downey Jr. be back for more, will there be an Iron Man 4, what other Marvel Superheroes will get a big screen treatment? Marvel’s President of Production, Kevin Feige, recently put a couple of those rumored about which heroes might get a stand alone movie to rest.

When asked by Collider if anyone at Marvel is currently developing or writing a Falcon of War Machine spinoff, Feige simply said:

“No.”

Now that just means that currently there are no plans for those two heroes, but perhaps as Marvel proceeds through Phase Two and into Phase Three some decisions could be made to bring those two characters to the big screen in their own rights.

Recently, Ms. Marvel, Blade, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Black Panther, and The Runaways have script development projects in the works at Marvel Studios. There’s no production dates for these yet, but scripts are being written (Runaways was already scripted by Iron Man 3‘s Drew Pearce), and concept art is in the works.

These would most likely come after the third Avengers movie, and until there is a release date or green-light announcement, keep your expectations grounded. These things have a way of getting side tracked until the real money starts getting pumped into the project.

Which of these would you like to see the most?

Via: Comicbookmovie

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