Buena Vista(NEW YORK) — Cameras on Captain America: Civil War have already started rolling in Atlanta, and on Thursday, Marvel revealed plot points and a cast list for the May 2016 Marvel blockbuster. It’s impressive, to say the least.
Here’s your cast:
Chris Evans — Steve Rogers/Captain America
Robert Downey Jr. — Tony Stark/Iron Man
Scarlett Johansson — Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
Sebastian Stan — Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
Anthony Mackie — Sam Wilson/Falcon
Paul Bettany — The Vision
Jeremy Renner — Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Don Cheadle — Col. James Rhodes/War Machine
Elizabeth Olsen — Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
Paul Rudd — Scott Lang/Ant Man
Chadwick Boseman — T’Challa/Black Panther
Daniel Brühl — Baron Zemo
Emily VanCamp — Sharon Carter/Agent 13
Frank Grillo — Crossbones
William Hurt — General Ross
Martin Freeman — ??
While many of the stars have appeared in previous Marvel films, Rudd’s Ant Man will make his debut in a July movie that bears the shape-changing hero’s name.
Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther will be making his first appearance in Civil War before toplining his own movie in 2018, while Brühl’s Baron Zemo — while a longtime foe of Cap’s in Marvel Comics — has yet to face off with the spangly hero on screen.
Grillo appeared in Winter Soldier as S.H.I.E.L.D./Hydra double agent Brock Rumlow, who barely survives that movie’s climactic battle with S.H.I.E.L.D. loyalists and will reemerge to battle Rogers as the masked villain Crossbones.
Nothing is yet known about who will be played by Freeman, a veteran of the Hobbit films.
According to Marvel.com, “Captain America: Civil War picks up where Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, as Steve Rogers leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain.”
Last year, ABC News spoke to Marvel VP Tom Brevoort to talk about how Civil War went down in the comics, not the upcoming films.
“Civil War was a project we did in 2005 … It was very much taken from the zeitgeist of the era. In the post 9-11 world, one of the questions that we as a nation had to grapple with is the question of the balancing act of the need for security and the desire for privacy and public freedom,” he said. “The inciting incident is a conflict between a young team of teenage superheros and super villains. They engage in a battle … one of the villains is this character Nitro, who explodes and he blows up, taking out a school and killing like 700 people, most of them kids … this set up a scenario in which there was a movement and a desire for superheros to register with the government or register with SHIELD. Come forward and get their credentials and be trained.”
As a result, Captain America faces off against Iron Man — former allies, now disagreeing on a fundamental issue, and they both recruit heroes on their side to back them up.
“From the point of view of Captain America, this was an infringement on the civil liberties of these people, this was overstepping turning all these super-powered individuals and turning them effectively into soldiers. Iron Man on the other hand, saw the validity of this. Just because a guy has powers and puts on a costume doesn’t mean he is trained to use them responsibility, even if his intentions are good, people can get hurt. This became an ideological divide between Cap and Iron Man and it played out in bold superhero fashion with laser blasts and fisticuffs,” he said.
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