‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER’ CO-DIRECTOR’ chats up about flashbacks and Cap’s growth.
Captain America: Winter Soldier Rules co-director Anthony Russo recently opened up to The Huffington Post about the direction Cap’s sequel is going. He does a lot of dancing around the issues, but I don’t know what else you would expect. Movie is almost two years out, it is a bit early to begin going spoiler alerting.
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The Huffington Post (and a few other outlets) talked to Anthony Russo as he did press for his TV show Animal Practice at the TCA Summer Tour, and got him to discuss the second Captain America film.During the conversation, Russo talked about the general goal for Chris Evans’ central character:
…we’re trying to grow him as a character, and certainly he’s come a long way, from where he started in pre-World War 2 to where he is in modern-day America. So the character has room for growth because of that huge journey that he’s been on, Number 1. Number 2, part of the appeal of these movies is the ensemble. Captain America isn’t the only character in the film, there are other characters that are perhaps lighter in nature.
One character mentioned as a possible additional presence is Bucky, played by Sebastian Stan in the first film. He’s not really “perhaps lighter in nature,” however. In fact, the entire narrative drive of the Winter Soldier storyline as it originally played out in the comics was to turn Bucky into a man who is very specifically dangerous and intimidating. Not that this will necessarily be a straight adaptation of that story, as Russo addresses the question of working with existing stories:
In a way. I mean, they’re all sort of rooted in what’s come before, but they’re all also their own jumping-off point as well.
Asked about the inclusion (or not) of WWII flashbacks, Russo dances around the question a bit, but does imply that we’ll see scenes set in the past:
Certainly Cap has this complicated history. We’re making the movie for first-time viewers, not just for fans, so, because Cap does have this complicated history — he was this skinny guy who became a super-soldier, he was born back then and he’s living [now] — in the storytelling, you need to convey that to an audience who doesn’t know Cap’s story.
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