Anthony Mackie clearly got a kick out of playing Sam “The Falcon” Wilson in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And there are few more vocal cheerleaders for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and his character. But he seems even more pumped than usual for **Captain America: Civil War, as he told Collider during a press day for Kevin Costner drama Black And White.
Mackie has read the most recent draft of the script and, while he couldn’t get too specific lest Marvel boss Kevin Feige spring out from a hotel couch and shoot him with a poison dart, he’s clearly ready to kick the hype machine into top gear. “Let’s just say it’s a wing-ding-doozy of a time,” he enthuses. “The great thing about it is, after seeing The Avengers I joked and said Captain America 2 was Avengers 1.5. Now with Avengers 2 coming out... Captain America 3 is so far beyond Avengers 2.5 and onto the realm of Avengers 3.8. It’s by far one of the most stupendous rides Marvel has put together.”
Given how well **Captain America: The Winter Soldier **turned out, with Mackie as a welcome addition, it certainly sounds like we’re in for a treat, and that’s before directors Joe and Anthony Russo have shot a single frame. Mackie will be back alongside Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, with Chadwick Boseman making his debut as Black Panther and Robert Downey Jr. showing up to pit Tony Stark against Steve Rogers in a moral quandary over government regulation of superheroes in a post-Avengers: Age Of Ultron World.
Captain America: Civil War is set to arrive in the UK on April 29, 2016. For more on the Civil War plotline and the future of the MCU, take a look at our feature on the subject.