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Captain America 4, but will we also get our first Black Superman too?
After months of rumors that Michael B. Jordan was going to be fitted for the blue suit and red cape, the man who once moonlighted as the Human Torch in the Marvel universe addressed the rumors and had an interesting take on the matter.
In an in-depth interview with
The Hollywood Reporter, Jordan threw cold water on the rumors that heâd be the new Black Man of Steel in Ta-Nehisi Coates upcoming Superman reboot which is rumored to feature an African-American lead.
series director Kari Skogland at the beginning of the series, we focused on directing: How she used camera placement to communicate the mental states of series stars Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), how Sam’s fight sequences were designed and shot, and why she found inspiration in a French drama about disability and friendship.
But with the series wrapped, we went back to Skogland to talk bigger-picture issues about the finale, the show’s moral messaging, that controversial new Captain America costume, and the little detail she’s proudest of, and thinks everyone missed.
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However, until the February 2018 release of âBlack Panther,â the MCU looked mostly White. âBlack Panther,â with an overwhelmingly Black cast, brought a vision of Afro-futurism into mainstream American popular culture, which often falters when confronting the more complex and painful aspects of Black history. The move to diversify the superhero canon on screen â along with âBlack Panther,â the Black female âIronheartâ introduced in 2016 â has been emotionally thrilling, but also, to my disappointment, controversial. Enter Captain America. First introduced in 1941, Captain America â dressed proudly in red, white and blue and sporting a virtually indestructible shield â proved a popular wartime comic book, and one that was reintroduced in 1964. The character, who derived his super-strength from a serum invented by American scientists to help end the Second World War, took on additional layers of mournful complexity as por
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Carl Lumbly s Isaiah Bradley had a lot of thoughts on why Sam Wilson shouldn t be Captain America in
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, but the actor has now defined what he thinks makes a good Cap.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier introduced us to the Marvel Cinematic Universe s version of Isaiah Bradley, a super soldier who had been imprisoned for decades so the U.S. Government could experiment on him and figure out how to recreate the serum that gave Isaiah and Steve Rogers their powers.Â
Anthony Mackie has shared his thoughts on those major developments from Friday's finale of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and admits that he's still processing his feelings. Check it out.