The following contains spoilers from the premiere of Disney +’s on March 19 The falcon and the winter soldier. Read at your own risk.
The falcon and the winter soldier has crowned as a new Captain America, and it’s not Sam Wilson or Bucky Barnes!
With the premiere of the Disney + series, Sam Cap donated Shield – which Steve Rogers gave him Avengers: Endgame – to the Smithsonian, just for the U.S. government to turn around, puts it in the hands of a new Captain America: John Walker (played by Lodge 49see Wyatt Russell). In the comics, Walker’s Super-Patriot is a villainous contrast to Steve Rogers’ version of the Cap, which represents a dark, extreme patriotism. His ascension is a great betrayal to Sam, who expected the shield to remain on display in honor of Steve’s legacy (‘It belongs to you.’)
Malcolm Spellman, who has written and produced all six episodes of the Marvel series, says that although Sam is hurt by the revelation, it is not surprising that the government would do such a thing.
“The reason it happened is the doubt Sam would naturally have in this country, if not in the world,” TVLine says. ‘Because he’s a black man, he knows how he’s looked, and he knows the electricity coming from him that carries those stars and stripes. You meet his family, and [they] already have opinions about it – you hear some of it in jokes, but it’s very pointy. A black man betrayed by his country, I think is not a surprising thing to Sam or any of our viewers, but it’s powerful because it gets to the core of Sam’s doubts. And how he handles the doubts about the series is going to determine who he moves forward in the MCU. ”
The premiere also features a cameo from Rhodey, aka War Machine (Don Cheadle), which raised some important questions for Sam about where the world is right now. According to director Kari Skogland, the relationship will be meaningful for Sam as he considers whether or not to reclaim the mantle of Captain America.
“It has a bit of mentorship quality. It is also very relevant for the story of Sam and the shield and what he is going to decide on, ”Skogland explains. “Rhodey asks the question, ‘Is there going to be a world where no one bears the shield?’ Is this what it is, where allies become enemies and the world, after Blip, has changed? During the Blip, of course, there was a shared sadness and you had a world that worked together in a different way. Now you are post-Blip and suddenly people want it to go back as it was. As [Sam is] On the idea of the shield and whether he should take it up or not, Rhodey gives even more reasons, both for and against. ”
“There’s a shorthand they have together,” adds lead author Spellman. “By just standing still and being silent for a minute, the audience can fill in the blanks.”
We still do not know what exactly Sam and Bucky will bring together – they spend the first episode separately – and how the supervillain Zemo (Captain America: Civil WarDaniel Brühl) fits everything, but it’s clear that the Falcon and the Winter Soldier work in a world that looks very different from what they did in the Captain America and Avengers films. The premiere alludes to increasing tensions with the rise of a violent extremist group known as the Flag Smashers, and ends with the government christening a new Captain America representing ‘true American values’.
These developments are ‘relevant to the Blip and the fact that enemies and fidelity have changed, and it has all changed fairly quickly’, Skogland explains. “We’re going to discover what that means over the course of the next few episodes.”
“We wanted the crisis the heroes were dealing with to be something that every fan could look at and like, ‘Oh, I identify with that. “This is a very real crisis,” Spellman said. ‘We wanted these villains to be born out of the crisis, and we wanted our heroes to approach them from a point of view that is so human today and so anchored in modern struggle, that this whole piece is like the superhero- feel franchise of the future. . These heroes are of the time, they are dealing with problems of the time, and their worldviews are of the time. ”
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