Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam Wilson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, described the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World film as a “clear reset.”
(L-R): Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus Ross and Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD. Photo by Eli Adé. © 2024 MARVEL.
While promoting the film at CinemaCon last week, Entertainment Weekly reports that Mackie shared, “This movie is a clear reset. It really reestablishes the idea of what this universe is and what this universe is going to be.”
He added, “I think with these movies, you’re getting a clear, new branding of what Marvel is headed towards the same way they did with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in Marvel Studios’ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Mackie even noted the film’s title, which was changed to Brave New World from New World Order, is evidence of this new direction, “The title implies that there’s a new, bigger enemy now; there’s a new frontier that we have to conquer.”
He explained, “From Captain America: The First Avenger to Endgame, the enemy was always good versus bad. Now that we’ve conquered that, where do we go from here? When the bad guys reappear, in what form are they reappearing? It is a new storyline with new characters, with new beliefs, and it creates a new idea of this new world that we’re going into.”
Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in Marvel Studios’ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Eli Adé. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Mackie’s comments reinforce the opinion that this film is going to be an utter disaster. It was reported back in January that the film would undergo significant reshoots that would span four months between May and August 2024.
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READ: Rumor: Test Screening For ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Goes Poorly
There was also a rumor from OHIMATM that claimed previous test screenings for the film did not impress audiences reasoning that’s why Marvel was conducting the massive reshoots.
The user shared information about those test screenings, “I’ve been able to get some insight into what some of the main issues were at the Captain America: Brave New World test screenings. Apparently audiences were unimpressed by the film’s action scenes and the chemistry between Cap and his love interest.”
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Not only did OHIMATM share that audiences did not find the actions scenes and the chemistry between Falcon and his love interest impressive, but they found the movie’s political intrigue “uninspired and unengaging.”
The user shared, “However, the biggest issue was how audiences responded to the film’s political content. You might think this’d mean audiences found it divisive, but it was actually worse than that: they found it boring.”
“I’m told that the overall feel was that the political material was ‘uninspired and unengaging’ that audiences found it lacked nuance, was overly expository, and really slowed the movie down. I’m also told that while the ‘three sequences that will be removed’ were a big part of the problem.”
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The user continued, “The film’s issues go beyond that and will likely include significant rewrites throughout as well as adding/removing characters. I’m told that Marvel really wants to keep the summer window for reshoots in order to avoid another release date delay not just because it’d mean vacating what they feel is a good release date for the film, but because, as usual, delaying this film would result in a domino effect whereby it would likely mean delaying others.”
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Mackie downplayed the rumor regarding the reshoots, but confirmed they are indeed happening. He told Radio Times, “We shot the next film and now because we had this big strike, it kind of delayed everything. So now we’re going in to do our reshoots, which isn’t a big deal.”
He elaborated, “Every Marvel movie I’ve done has done between six weeks and three months of reshoots. It’s just how it works. All of these big budget superhero movies, all of them do reshoots. When we did Endgame, we did like three months of reshoots, so it’s always a thing where you shoot what you have, get it in the editing, you see what you got, then you come back, and you make it better. So it’s just the way the process works.”
“I mean, I’ve done, I guess, like eight Marvel movies now. And we’ve done reshoots on all of them. So we were going back in this summer, and seeing what we got and make it better,” he concluded.
Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in Marvel Studios’ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
While Mackie has downplayed the reshoots, it does appear that significant portions of the film are being cut and reworked. A rumor from CanWeGetSomeToast as reported by ComicBookMovie.com claims that the reshoots are being conducted because “the Serpent Society has been completely removed from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier follow-up.”
Previous rumors from the scooper indicated the Serpent Society would play a significant role in the film with Isaiah Bradley “suiting up for some action against the Serpent Society as a part of his return” in the film.”
Isaiah Bradley will be suiting up for some action against the Serpent Society as a part of his return in #CaptainAmericaNewWorldOrder. pic.twitter.com/EI1hIKLdSf
— CanWeGetSomeToast (@CanWeGetToast) April 12, 2023
READ: ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Reshoots Reportedly Scrapping Serpent Society From Film
The scooper also noted the organization would kidnap Joaquin Torres and “hybridize him with a comic accurate Red Wing, (the bird).”
The Serpent Society is going to kidnap Joaquin Torres in #CaptainAmericaNewWorldOrder and hybridize him with a comic accurate Red Wing, (the bird). Yes, he will have telepathic powers with this bird and yes, he will his comic accurate “organic” wings. pic.twitter.com/p7mezlAeID
— CanWeGetSomeToast (@CanWeGetToast) April 1, 2023
This rumor was disputed by Alex Perez of The Cosmic Circus according to ComicBookMovie.com. Perez claims the Serpent Society is not being completely scrapped, but is being reduced to an opening sequence rather than playing an ongoing role throughout the rest of the film.
Nevertheless, the reshoots mean the likelihood of this film being profitable are unlikely. Financial analyst Valliant Renegade noted at the end of January, “What a disaster… that’s gotta be another easy $100M+ in budget overruns right there. 60-90 days is enough to reshoot this ENTIRE film.”
What a disaster… that’s gotta be another easy $100M+ in budget overruns right there. 60-90 days is enough to reshoot this ENTIRE film. https://t.co/qzAMGc7zvA
— Valliant Renegade (@ValliantRenegad) January 29, 2024
What do you make of Mackie’s comments about Captain America: Brave New World?
With all that new footage, new characters, and expensive reshoots, why not earn it back with a 2 part movie? That’s what should be done.