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The new Captain America, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), fights the good fight without the support of the Avengers, who disbanded in the aftermath of “Endgame.” Also returning from “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” are Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley, aka the first Black super soldier (who told Sam in “FAWS” that the US would never accept a Black Captain America), and Danny Ramirez as Joaquín Torres. who inherits the name Falcon from Sam. Shira Haas (“Unorthodox”) joins the cast as Ruth Bat-Seraph, aka Sabra. In the comics, Sabra is a mutant who works as an agent of Israel’s Mossad, but tells a Marvel spokesperson Variety that the filmmakers are taking “a new approach” to the character.
Julius Onah (“Luce,” “The Cloverfield Paradox”) directs from a screenplay by “FAWS” lead writer Malcolm Spellman and staff writer Dalan Musson, with Matthew Orton (“Moon Knight”) writing material for additional photography in 2024.
The film was originally subtitled ‘New World Order’, but Disney announced that it was changed to ‘Brave New World’ in June 2023. While principal photography ended before the SAG-AFTRA strike, Disney pushed the film back from a May 2024 release to a February release. 2025.
MCU link: Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross will appear as the President of the United States in “Brave New World” – played by Harrison Ford, replacing late actor William Hurt, who reprized the role in 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” and performed it several times starred , most recently in 2021’s ‘Black Widow’. As the first trailer all but confirmed, Ross will also transform into the Red Hulk.
Another character who started out in “The Incredible Hulk” also returns: Tim Blake Nelson will play Samuel Sterns, aka The Leader. In that film, Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) forces Samuel to use blood samples from Bruce Banner (played by Edward Norton) to transform Emil into the Abomination. In the aftermath, some of Bruce’s blood ends up on an open wound on Emil’s skull, transforming him into The Leader. Seventeen years laterwe will finally see what happened to Samuel next.
This film also finally addresses the ending of 2021’s ‘Eternals’, when a colossal celestial body appeared in the Indian Ocean and turned to stone. As revealed at San Diego Comic-Con in 2024, the metal adamantium will be discovered in the Celestial’s body – an eyebrow-raising addition to the MCU.
The Leader and Ross might not be the only old MCU characters returning for “Brave New World,” especially since the anti-hero team-up movie “Thunderbolts” will follow later in 2025, starring disgraced former Captain America John Walker . (Wyatt Russell), aka US Agent, and the shadowy agent Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – two characters first introduced on ‘FAWS’. And then there’s the post-credits tease for “FAWS,” in which Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) revealed herself as the nefarious Power Broker just as she’s pardoned and reinstated into the U.S. government – what’s to come become hers?
