Anthony Mackie Inks New Deal to Lead Captain America 4: Reports

Captain America 4 will pick up after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

By Akhil Arora | Updated: 19 August 2021 11:02 IST

Anthony Mackie Inks New Deal to Lead Captain America 4: Reports

Photo Credit: Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios

Anthony Mackie as Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Highlights

Captain America 4 release date won’t be before 2023
Mackie will return as Sam Wilson/ Captain America
At least nine Marvel movies due before Captain America 4

Anthony Mackie will star in Captain America 4, according to reports that The Falcon and Winter Soldier actor has finalised a new deal with Marvel, in what is the most inevitable piece of news due since late April. Mackie will return as his Marvel Cinematic Universe character Sam Wilson/ Captain America — previously, the Falcon — with the as-yet untitled new Captain America movie following on from the events of the Disney+ series.

Spoilers ahead for The Falcon and Winter Soldier. Captain America 4 will likely pick up some of its breadcrumbs, including the machinations of Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter/ Power Broker, and Wyatt Russell's turn as John Walker/ US Agent. Neither actor is confirmed as yet for Captain America 4.

Deadline first brought word of Mackie having signed a contract to lead Captain America 4, with The Hollywood Reporter confirming shortly after. This comes nearly four months on from the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — which meanwhile has garnered five nominations at the 2021 Emmys — with the existence of Captain America 4 being in the works revealed on the premiere day of the series finale.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier creator Malcolm Spellman is set as writer on Captain America 4 alongside Dalan Musson, who wrote the MCU Disney+ series' fifth episode “Truth”.

No director is set on Captain America 4, though the last two Captain America movies served as a major launchpad. Anthony and Joe Russo helmed the previous two chapters — 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and 2016's Captain America: Civil War — and then went on to direct the dual mega get-togethers, 2018's Avengers: Infinity War and 2019's Avengers: Endgame, two of the biggest and highest-grossing movies of all time. Captain America 4 doesn't have a release date either, but don't expect the movie for a while anyway given how packed the MCU calendar is.

Next up is Marvel's first lead Asian superhero in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on September 3, followed by a new MCU ensemble from Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao in Eternals out late October in India and early November elsewhere, and the Tom Holland threequel Spider-Man: No Way Home closing out the year on December 17.

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In 2022, we will have Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (March 25), Taika Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder (May 6), Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (July 8), and Brie Larson-led The Marvels (November 11).

That leaves Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly-starrer Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania for February 2023 with Jonathan Majors' Kang the Conqueror, and James Gunn's return to Marvel for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May 2023.

Additionally, there are Marvel movies based on Fantastic Four, Blade (with Mahershala Ali), and X-Men in development. Ryan Reynolds-led Deadpool 3 is also officially in the works.

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