Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Page #6

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And at the same time, I got a

feeling we're gonna be taking care

of some old S.H.I.E.L.D.

business that might pop up.

And pretty much anything

that's in the Marvel comics

universe is fair game.

Might be some kind

of cloaking mechanism.

Maybe it created some kind of portal,

jumped the train there.

Ah, let's hope not.

I can't deal with Asgard today.

That's one of the goals is

to be filling in the cracks

between these giant movies

and be the piece that ties them together

through the through-line

that is the Marvel universe.

Hopefully, as it continues,

there will be a little bit

of weaving in and around the movies.

Your world is in grave danger.

We're inviting you, and

you're getting to meet

comic-book elements between

Deathlok, Lorelei, Sif.

It's been a great way to

give people an experience

in the Marvel universe

in a different fashion.

This is Colonel Glenn Talbot,

U.S. Air Force.

I need to speak with

whoever's in charge over there.

Move in. We have an agent down.

While the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

embark on new adventures each week,

this spring, movie theaters worldwide

will see the return of Captain America

as he comes face to face with his past,

and it will rock the Marvel

cinematic universe to its core.

In 2013, phase two

got off to an explosive start.

Worldwide audiences

fueled the box office

for "Iron Man 3" and

"Thor:
The Dark World."

With the cinematic universe

continuing to expand,

a founding member of the Avengers

is returning to theaters

in an epic new adventure.

I moderated the Marvel panel

at Comic-Con this past year

in hall H, and people went nuts.

I think "Winter Soldier" just

kicks it up to the next level.

The biggest challenge is

exceeding expectations...

not just audience expectations

but our own expectations.

Unlike Iron Man, who goes back

to Malibu and to Pepper Potts

and to his best friend

Jim Rhodes, or Thor,

who goes back to Asgard,

Cap can't go back in time.

Cap is stuck now in this modern world.

So more than any of the other films,

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"

is gonna connect most to "Avengers."

If you look at the

Marvel cinematic universe,

what's been constant?

It's been S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick Fury is still

the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.

when we open the film.

The influence of S.H.I.E.L.D.

has expanded because of

what happened in "Avengers."

So here now is an organization

who is built to address things

like the raid on

Manhattan by the aliens.

And all of the sudden,

you find Nick Fury

with more resources than he's ever had.

We're gonna neutralize a lot

of threats before they even happen.

I thought the punishment

usually came after the crime.

Captain America's

still not real sure

about how the government has

intruded into everyone's lives,

And so we're trying to bring

him into an understanding

of what's going on.

This isn't freedom. This is fear.

S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the world as it is,

not as we'd like it to be.

It's getting damn near past time

for you to get with that program, Cap.

Don't hold your breath.

We get to see those other sides of Steve

as he navigates this world of grays

when he came from a place

where it was very clear

who the good guys were,

who the bad guys were.

I like the relationship

between Fury and Cap.

I think they each

maybe have trust issues.

I think they've each

been on the front line.

They've seen battles and lost friends.

They're at odds, as Nick

often is with the other heroes.

But in this film, we get to see

how both Steve is changed by Nick

but, even more importantly,

how Nick is changed by Steve.

Nick's mentor, Alexander Pierce,

head of the world security council

and very close friends with Nick Fury,

comes to help motivate Cap.

Look out the window.

You know how the game works.

Disorder, war.

All it takes is one step.

There's a certain amount of mystery

that emerges about my character.

He's got a lot of dimension to him.

He's really shrewd, smart, and

I found that really appealing.

To build a really better

world sometimes means

having to tear the old one

down, and that makes enemies.

Just when you think Cap's

embraced this new life,

the old life comes in and

punches him in the face

in the form of the Winter Soldier.

Most of the intelligence

community doesn't believe he exists.

The ones that do call

him the Winter Soldier.

One of the best Captain

America stories in the comics over

the past probably 20 years is a story

line called "the Winter Soldier."

And that story influenced

us heavily, obviously,

being the title of this film and one

of the main characters in this film.

It's this operatic relationship

between Cap and his equal,

who just happens to be

the friend that he thought

was lost in the past.

Bucky Barnes was one

of my Howling Commandos

during World War II.

In the first movie,

when Steve rescues Bucky

from the camp in the

middle of the movie,

he's being experimented on with the idea

that Bucky's a little off

and a little different now.

He's the one guy that

actually didn't make it back.

Grab my hand!

No!

He was found, brainwashed, given

a very similar serum to myself,

and is now the winter soldier.

They really revived

him to be this assassin

and use him as a weapon

to target Steve Rogers.

We start to explore that relationship,

which is so intense and dark.

When we first find Natasha

and Steve since "Avengers,"

they have been tasked on many

different missions together,

so they have gotten to

know each other a bit.

You know, if you asked

Kristen out from statistics,

- she'd probably say yes.

- That's why I don't ask.

- Too shy or too scared?

- Too busy!

Cap and Black Widow

are very different people.

It's kind of like this odd pairing.

She has very questionable

morality, and Cap's a boy scout.

We couldn't resist the idea of putting

those two characters together

because it's fire and water.

In this story specifically,

it was important for us to

have an outsider character,

a character who didn't

already work for S.H.I.E.L.D.

- What unit you with?

- 58th para-rescue.

But now I'm working down at the V.A.

Sam Wilson.

- Steve Rogers.

- Yeah, I kind of put that together.

Starting in the '70s, Sam Wilson

was one of Cap's closest friends.

They've teamed up for

many, many, many issues.

In this movie, we've made him

a part of a paratrooper

team from the military.

And it's a very sort

of advanced flight suit.

You know, Marvel

gave him a true background.

They made him military ops

and really made the Falcon

a code name as opposed

to his actual name.

So I'm glad that they went with that,

even though I was really

looking forward to some spandex.

With "Winter Soldier," you

got to up the spectacle.

You got to up the massive nature of

this thing that people are anticipating.

We really wanted Captain America

to be responsible for

altering the cinematic universe

so that when we meet all of our characters

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