Following his role in last year's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Marvel Studios' second series for Disney Plus, star Sebastian Stan is still unsure whether he will make an appearance in the long awaited Captain America 4.However, he has no doubts the film will knock it out of the park, as he has compared the upcoming project to classics like 1976's Rocky.
After officially being greenlit back in August, a Captain America 4 is finally in the works from Marvel Studios with Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson/Falcon in the titular role, taking over for Chris Evans' Steve Rogers. While The Falcon and the Winter Soldier saw Falcon team up with BuckyBarnes/Winter Soldier and take over the shield to eventually become the new Cap, details for the fourth film have been kept under wraps and won't likely be released for quite some time.
Captain America 4 Has One Very Important Job To Do
While promoting his newest film Fresh with Yahoo Entertainment's Kevin Polowy, Stan touched on what fans can expect out of Captain America 4, sharing that the upcoming film has a little of Rocky in it. «But I'm very excited for that movie and I think he's going to be great,» Stan said of Mackie. «He's going to add a whole different feel to that idea. It kind of reminds me a little bit of Rocky, in some ways.»
In terms of relating to Rocky, perhaps Captain America 4 will carry over a lot of those underdog themes presented in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, particularly those dealing with Sam Wilson filling the big shoes of such an icon (Rogers), and coming to terms with the idea of a Black man taking over as Captain America in a predominantly white society (as shown with Isiah Bradley's character and his contempt for what that would mean). While Stan was
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