Last week at Comic-Con, Marvel announced the official title for the second Captain America film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And hot on the heels of this announcement comes another Marvel bombshell — The Falcon will be joining Steve Rogers on his adventure, potentially played by The Hurt Locker’s Anthony Mackie.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mackie is in talks to join Sebastian Stan — who is returning to his role as Bucky — onscreen as Sam Wilson, better known as the superhero The Falcon. He will no doubt help Steve Rogers fight his erstwhile buddy Bucky, who is mind-controlled by Soviet Russia.
Remember that we never saw Bucky die in Captain America: The First Avenger — he merely fell into an icy river from a train. In comic book lore, Bucky was later discovered by the Russians, nursed back to health with the super serum and cybernetics, and brainwashed into fighting for the Soviets.
Captain America: The Winter Solider will be taking place in modern times, post-Avengers, so it should be interesting to see how cinematic Bucky makes it to the present. The Winter Soldier will be out April 4, 2014.
