The latest Captain America: The Winter Soldier featurette shows Anthony Mackie taking flight as The Falcon.
While we’ve seen half a dozen featurettes on Captain America and Black Widow, The Falcon hasn’t been getting much love. That changes today as actor Anthony Mackie is featured in the latest footage as Cap’s sidekick. Learn more about The Falcon in the video below via CBM:
Mackie will be playing Falcon, who in the comics is an excellent trainer of wild birds. He’s trained in gymnastics and was personally trained in hand-to-hand combat by Captain America himself. He normally has his trained hunting falcon Redwing with him, but we’ve yet to see the bird featured in any of the film’s footage.
Marvel has released some great character posters lately, most recently featuring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. We also got our first official shot of Mackie as The Falcon in a poster seen recently.
The studio has also released some new stylized character posters for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Check them out in below thanks to ComingSoon:
In related news, Captain America 3 was recently confirmed to be in pre-production, with The Winter Soldier directors Anthony and Joe Russo signing on to direct the third film with Chris Evans in the lead role of Steve Rogers.
It seems as though Marvel is making The Falcon a superhero in his own right, so we’ll be interested to find out how his character arc pans out. Mackie is talented, so we look forward to seeing him team up with Cap.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier will hit theaters April 4, 2014. The sequel stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Mackie, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Frank Grillo and Samuel L. Jackson.
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