Captain America: 'Hurt Locker' actor may sign on for sequel

'Hurt Locker' actor Anthony Mackie may sign on for the movie titled 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.'

By Sandy Schaefer,?Screen Rant / July 17, 2012

Captain America (r., portrayed by actor Chris Evans) will return in the sequel that Marvel recently announced will be titled 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.'

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Marvel is fresh off a successful appearance at Comic-Con 2012, where the studio premiered several mouth-watering items for its geek fanbase. That included: Edgar Wright?s Ant-Man test footage, an Iron Man 3 sizzle reel, confirmation on a Guardians of the Galaxy movie arriving in 2014, and new titles for its sequels, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

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Fans has been speculating that Captain America 2 would include the Winter Soldier storyline for quite some time, going back to when it was announced that Sebastian Stan had signed a multi-picture deal with Marvel to portray Steve Rogers? brother-in-arms Bucky Barnes (who became the aforementioned brain-washed, cybernetic super assassin, in ?Captain America? vol. 5, #1, released in 2005).

Heat Vision has learned that Anthony Mackie is in negotiations to appear in The Winter Soldier as Sam T. Wilson (a.k.a. Falcon). The character was introduced in ?Captain America? #117 in 1969, and is the first full-blown African-American superhero featured in mainstream comics (preceding Luke Cage by nearly three years).

Wilson was introduced as an unnamed social worker in Harlem (during the 1960s), who was recruited by the Red Skull under false pretense. The latter then used the Cosmic Cube to give Wilson psychic powers, which allowed him to communicate telepathically with birds?(and thus, control them).?Wilson eventually discovered the truth about who the villain and his allies were, and escaped. Shortly thereafter, he encountered Steve Rogers, who?convinced Wilson to take on a superhero persona: Falcon, a crime-fighter whose strength is enhanced by his suit (which also allows him to fly).

Falcon would go on to have several adventures with Captain America in the 1970s, when Steve Englehart retconned the character?s backstory so that he?d spent some time living as a gangster called Snap, following the murder of his parents (Wilson?s memories were revealed to have been altered by Red Skull, via the Cosmic Cube). The superhero was also briefly an Avenger during the late ?70s and late ?90s, and appeared in a handful of Captain America comic storylines in the early 2000s (he?s now a recurring player in the regular CA series, which began with #6000 in 2009).

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