Marvel Exec Says Captain America 4 Will Put Sam Wilson ‘Through the Wringer’

Sam Wilson is Captain America now, and his lead status of Captain America 4 will put him through the wringer according to Marvel executive Nate Moore. Moore, the VP of Production and Development at Marvel Studios, appeared on ComicBook.com’s Phase Zero podcast and talked about how Anthony Mackie’s character will have the chance to prove that being Cap isn’t just about being a super soldier.

“I think, he’s not Steve Rogers and I think that’s a good thing,” Moore said. “Because to me, this new Cap is Rocky. He’s going to be the underdog in any situation. He’s not a super soldier. He’s not a hundred years old. He doesn’t have the Avengers. What happens with this guy who announces publicly kind of, without the support, ‘I’m new Captain America.’ What happens next? I think is fascinating because he’s a guy. He’s a guy with wings and a shield, but he is a guy. So, we’re going to put him through the wringer and make him earn it, and see what happens when he is outweighed, outclassed, out-everything. What makes somebody Captain America? I’m going to argue it’s not being a super soldier. And I think we’re going to prove that with Mackie and Sam Wilson.”

Moore also discussed how he pushed the idea of making Sam more involved in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, saying, “I think Winter Soldier was interesting in that, I wasn’t the executive on the first movie, that was Stephen Broussard, who’s still with us and amazing. And so, when I inherited that property, and because the first movie was a period and the second was going to be present day, I kind of came with the things that I loved about the character. And when I was a kid, I had a bunch of Captain America and Falcon comics. I knew Captain America as Captain America and Falcon more than I knew him as an individual. So, when I talked with Markus and McFeely, I just was like, obviously, ‘You’d be doing Captain America and Falcon, what else are you going to do?’ And that wasn’t necessarily the first thing they thought of, but it was something they were really interested in.”

Captain America 4 will star Mackie as Sam, who became Cap in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The film will follow on that series and is bring written by Malcolm Spellman, who created the Disney+ show, along with Dalan Musson.