Release Date: February 14, 2025
What We Know: Immediately following the final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, news broke of series writers Malcolm Spellman and Dalan Musson beginning work on a script for the fourth Captain America film. It will continue with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie, who closed his deal to star in August of 2021) as Cap and how he fulfills the role in a world still recovering from the Blip. Perhaps it will also address his connection to the Avengers (or what’s left of them). In July 2022, The Cloverfield Paradox‘s Julius Onah emerged as the film’s director. Feige subsequently revealed the film’s title and release date at the 2022 Comic-Con presentation. At the D23 Expo that September, Feige confirmed The Incredible Hulk‘s Tim Blake Nelson will return as The Leader and in the proceeding weeks, Disney confirmed a persistent rumor that Harrison Ford would replace the late William Hurt as recurring MCU character Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. In February of 2023, Marvel revealed Ross will be the President of the United States in the film. The next month, Liv Tyler signed to return as Ross’s daughter, Betty — a role she has not played since 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. In June, Marvel announced a new subtitled — Brave New World — and pushed its release date to July of next year. After the conclusion of the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Disney moved the film, which already completed production, to 2025 as part of ongoing effort to slow down Marvel’s release schedule and post-production bottlenecks.
How It Fits in the MCU: With Sam firmly established as the new Captain America and the announced changes in GRC policy going forward, shows like Ironheart will presumably pick up the geopolitical threads and establish at least part of the crisis Sam will need to resolve in his first feature film as Cap. Indeed, the conclusion of Secret Invasion leaves a pretty big mess for him to clean up. Well, provided that series even took place in the usual 616 MCU. Discrepancies between it and The Marvels may eventually prove one or the other occurred elsewhere in the More

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