Captain America: Brave New World marks star Anthony Mackie's first cinematic appearance as the new Captain America.
Marvel Studios has released a full trailer for Captain America: Brave New World during the first ever Brazil D23 fan event this weekend. This marks star Anthony Mackie's first cinematic appearance as the new Captain America following the Phase Four 2021 TV miniseries, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The event also included a special look at Marvel's upcoming Lightning strikes* film, followed by a new trailer.
As previously reported, it is the fifth film in Phase Five of the MCU, directed by Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox) and build on events, not just in F&WS but also the 2008 film The incredible Hulk. According to the official premise:
After meeting newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam finds himself at the center of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind turns the entire world red.
In addition to Mackie and Ford, the cast includes Liv Tyler as the president's daughter, Betty Ross, and Tim Blake Nelson as Samuel Sterns, both of whom reprise their roles in the 2008 film. The incredible Hulk. (Ford replaces the late William Hurt, who played Ross in that earlier film.) Carl Lumbley plays Isaiah Bradley, reprising his F&WS role as a Korean War veteran who was secretly imprisoned and given the Super Soldier Serum against his will, experimenting for 30 years. (He told Sam that he couldn't imagine how a black man could take up Captain America's shield because of what it meant to people like him, and you could hardly blame him.)
Rosa Salazar plays Rachel Leighton, Danny Ramirez plays Joaquin Torres and Shira Haas plays Ruth Bat-Seraph. Giancarlo Esposito will also appear as Sidewinder, the alter ego of economics professor Seth Voelker, who gains the power of teleportation via a cloak (a gift from the Egyptian god Set) and forms a criminal organization called The Serpent Society in the comics.
