“You are needed, Cap,” Bucky Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan) told Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in a new teaser for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which opens on Friday, March 19, at Disney +. Wilson will take on the mantle of Captain America after Steve Rogers handed him the shield in Avengers: Endgame.
The six-episode series finds Wilson and Barnes embarking on a global adventure that will test their skills – along with their patience – in what is being described as a “cinematic experience”. It’s a comedy of friends / superhero adventure as this unlikely duo navigates a post-Captain America world of Rogers.
In addition to Mackie and Stan, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will also see Emily VanCamp reprise her role as Sharon Carter and Daniel Bruhl returning as the villainous Baron Zemo. Most, Internal enemyNoah Mills and SupergirlCarl Lumbly’s are set to appear in unspecified roles, and Lodge 49Wyatt Russell’s, will play John Walker (who adopts superhero alter egos US Agent and Super-Patriot in the comics).
Check out the action-packed teaser below.
Lead writer and executive producer Malcolm Spellman previously opened TVLine on how race will play an important role in the show’s history. Spellman hopes the series will have a positive impact on black youth, as well as in 2018 Black Panther.
“I believe that Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a good progression with the mantle that [Black Panther director Ryan] Coogler and Chadwick [Boseman] left us, ”said Spellman. “I really believe that these giant black icons are needed, not only for black children, but for white children to begin to absorb – our people as being big and heroic.”
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