New updates for Captain America 3 have been revealed.
According to reports from Fanshare, there have been rumors that Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson/Falcon will become Captain America in the third installment as the website claimed that Chris Evans might step away from role of Steve Rogers after Captain America 3 leaving Anthony Mackie to pick up his slack.
However, Comicvine has reported that Chris Evans will leave Marvel Studios after Avengers 3 citing that the character will die and his possible replacement will either Sam Wilson or Buck Barnes a.k.a. Winter Soldier since both of them claimed the mantle in the comics.
So far, there have been no confirmation as of yet regarding Chris Evans departure and Anthony Mackie as Captain America.
It was last month that Marvel comics revealed the identity of the new Captain America in the upcoming "Avengers Now!" storyline as Steve Rogers named Sam Wilson as his successor.
The Wire conducted an interview with Marvel's Chief Creative officer Joe Quesada, he stated that the reasons why Steve Rogers chose Sam Wilson as Captain America. Apparently the new storyline hinted that Steve Rogers will lose the super soldier serum in his system courtesy of the villain known as Iron Nail. As a result Steve Rogers becomes powerless and slowly ages into an old man in his 90's.
Several characters have been hinted to replace Rogers such as The Winter Soldier and Red Skull, but as it turns out Sam Wilson took the shield and star spangled outfit to continue his legacy.
Comic Book writer Rick Remender will helm the ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 and cited several details for the new chapter.
“This is it,” says Remender of the culmination of two years of storytelling in CAPTAIN AMERICA and the dawning of ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA. “This is the fireworks factory we’re arriving at, and now everything’s going to blow up and be very pretty and exciting to look at. It leads into an evolution of Steve Rogers’ character that I had very early when I was given the job. I think that it’s important with these stories to do things that are natural and make sense and have an inherent logic to the universe, but are also constantly shifting and exciting, keeping the drama high. In order to do that it really comes down to creating new dynamics."
“I’ve been having a lot of fun writing Sam. It’s a completely different attitude. The fact that he’s not a soldier shifts things up a bit. Sam’s not going to be Steve. Steve can be very rigid. That can be kind of joyless at times, whereas Sam is absolutely not that.”
He further adds,
“While Sam shares many of Steve’s beliefs in a general sense, he’s also a very different person with a very different background,” adds editor Tom Brevoort, “He didn’t grow up in the 1930s, he’s a modern day man in touch with the problems of the 21st Century. For most of his professional life, Sam has worked as a social worker, so he’s seen the worst of urban society up close, and how crime, poverty, lack of social structure and opportunity can affect the community. So he’s got perhaps a greater focus on the plight of the common man, and perhaps a greater empathy for the underprivileged than maybe even Steve himself. He’s also not a military man, so he’s more apt to be instinctively skeptical of any situation that calls for just following orders. Sam, like Steve, will be led by his personal morality and beliefs as to what is right and what is wrong—and where his beliefs may differ in their shading from those of the previous Cap are where the interesting stories will be found.”
With Sam Wilson as Captain America in comics, the big question remains: Will Anthony Mackie replace Chris Evans for the role Cap in Captain America 3?
Falcon's first appearance was in Captain America #117 and is credited as one of the first African-American superhero in the Marvel comics. He has been a major character in the Avengers and also in the Marvel universe. He takes on new responsibility as a black Captain America in issue #25.
Captain America 3 will be release sometime in 2016.
