Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth Cap film in which Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over as Captain America, wrapped principal photography last spring. But then post-production got dinged by the dual labor strikes last summer—presumably chiefly affecting their ability to do reshoots—so the Marvel brain trust had plenty of time to sit around and think about this movie and how they could, er, improve it. Well, now they’re back at work in Atlanta, filming three weeks’ worth of reshoots. 

 

It's not the most, not the least reshoots they’ve done. Because of the strike delays/really it’s about slowing down their output, Brave New World has been moved back to February 2025. Typically, February is not the best month for films to be released, being directly adjacent to the January bad movie boneyard, but Marvel has had some luck there with Black Panther back in 2018. Of course, more recently Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania bombed in February 2023, but Marvel is undoubtedly hoping this will be a repeat of Black Panther, particularly with it being Black History Month in the US, and Sam, like T’Challa, being one of more prominent Black Marvel superheroes. 

 

These reshoots are also introducing a whole new character, an unnamed villain played by Giancarlo Esposito. He was seen on set a few days ago:

 

Odds are running pretty even that he’s playing a deep-bench villain called “Prophet”, who uses teleportation to manipulate world events to shape a specific future, or William Stryker, who has previously been played by Brian Cox and Danny Huston in the X-Men movies. That seems like a stretch. Mutants are starting to pepper the MCU, but they’re not going to back-door a major X-villain in a Captain America movie, there’s not enough cross-over appeal between those factions in the universe oh my gods kill me. 

Anyway, this movie comes out in six-plus months and the future does not exist so I can’t devote too much energy to this. For now, I will just say that I still think Sam Wilson’s Cap costume is dumb. 

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