“It’s massive and we knew we had to honor that.” Because that dude, that character were iconic,” Spellman said. “When Chadwick did pass, we felt a huge burden. It robbed Marvel fans, including Spellman’s nephew, of one of the few Black superheroes. The summer would end in heartbreak when Chadwick Boseman, T’Challa himself, died following his secret four-year battle with cancer. It forced a swell of reckoning and introspection, including from those in Hollywood. Last summer, the largest protest movement in the country’s history was sparked by the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of police. By the time it resumed later that fall, the world was flipped on its side in much the same way that the post-Blip world of the Avengers has been forever changed. Production on the series began in October of 2019, before getting halted last March because of the pandemic. The main antagonists are a group of extremists called The Flag Smashers, who essentially are against the idea that that the world should even have countries at all. ![]() When “Avengers: Endgame” ended in 2019 with an elderly Steve passing on his shield to Sam, Marvel had already confirmed that “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” would be one of its first Disney+ series. Though his run as Cap would last only a few years, his turn as the Star-Spangled Avenger was notable for his much more openly activist stance compared to Rogers’ version (more on that here).Īlso Read: 'WandaVision' Director Loved Your Fan Theories, Even If They Were Way Off In 2014, Sam first appeared as the new Captain America, complete with a new red, white and blue costume that incorporated elements of his old Falcon look. Sam Wilson taking over the mantle of Captain America from his buddy Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is rooted in comics history. ![]() You still want it to be fun and muscular, but you’re not going to be dishonest either.” And that’s just allowed to exist, for better or for worse, as it goes. “Sam Wilson is a Black man, and those Stars and Stripes are something that you can’t just forgive on his face. “I think what Marvel did well in the comics - by the way, sometimes they messed up in the comics, too, because the wrong people were creating these characters - but Marvel always wanted to be of the day. So I felt like we were connected to the times right off the bat.”īesides, Spellman argues, they’re not doing anything that Marvel’s long comics history didn’t attempt, even if it didn’t always hit the mark. “When you get people of color, particularly Black folk who are masters of pop culture, in a room together, they understand society in a very specific way. I’m not gonna have fake humility and act like that is by accident,” Spellman said, pointing out that the writers room for “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is mostly Black. ![]() It not only sees Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) team up to fight a group of anti-patriotism radicals, but asks the question: Is the world ready to accept a Black Captain America? The six-episode “buddy two-hander” (as Spellman describes it) is set up to be Marvel Studios’ most overt political commentary on race and extremism. “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” debuts Friday, just two weeks after “WandaVision” successfully brought the MCU into the streaming era. Now Spellman gets to chart the future of one of those prominent Black heroes during an inflection point in the country’s history as it comes to matters of race and inequality.Īlso Read: In 'WandaVision' and 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier,' Trauma Is the Real Villain “My nephew wears a Black Panther costume every other week,” Spellman told TheWrap. You don’t need to remind Malcolm Spellman, head writer of Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” about the importance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s very few prominent Black characters.
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