Robert Redford In Talks To Star In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
 

Marvel Surprise: Robert Redford In Talks To Star In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

EXCLUSIVE: Here is a fun Marvel scoop. I’m hearing that Robert Redford is in discussions to join the cast of Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, the sequel that brings Chris Evans back as the shield-carrying superhero. Redford is in talks to play a senior leadership role in S.H.I.E.L.D., the superhero collective run by Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury character. Joe and Anthony Russo are directing the film from a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, whose Marvel script credits include Captain America: The First Avenger and the upcoming Thor: The Dark World. The sequel will be released by Disney April 4, 2014.

In between running his Sundance empire, Redford most recently starred in All Is Lost, the J.C. Chandor-scripted and directed survival tale. While Marvel was predictably mum as Kevin Feige’s unit always is on casting matters, Marvel characters have a tendency to show up in other superhero movies, and I believe that is likely to be on the menu for Redford. It will be somewhat ironic for the patriarch of independent cinema to become a regular in some of Hollywood’s biggest studio blockbusters. Redford’s repped by WME

Wow, thats interesting....i got the feeling he was sort of "above" this sort of material.

But i guess hes got to eat too.

Redford Confirms He’ll Play ‘Head of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ in Captain America 2

Although Robert Redford already confirmed he has joined the cast of Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the veteran actor revealed to SPINOFF ONLINE this morning precisely what role he’ll play.

Asked by SPINOFF’ during a press roundtable for The Company You Keep about portraying a senior S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, as previously reported, Redford was quick to clarify,Redford joins returning cast members Chris Evans (Captain America/Steve Rogers), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier), Toby Jones (Arnim Zola) and Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), along with Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/Falcon), Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter), Frank Grillo (Crossbones) and Max Hernandez (Agent Jasper Sitwell).

Directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is believed to be based on the Captain America storyline of the same name, which revealed Captain America’s sidekick Bucky Barnes didn’t die as expected during the war. Instead, an amnesiac Bucky got snatched by the Soviets, fitted with a bionic arm and programmed to serve as an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. The secret is revealed in the present day after Barnes attacks the Red Skull and blows up part of Philadelphia. The film opens in 3D on April 4, 2014.

He probably was, like so many others, above it until he saw all the goddamn money they make.

Heh, of course it’s a “paycheck” job. I get that. What I don’t understand is why Marvel feels they need him? The younger audience has no idea who he is or he isn’t relevant to them, and they obviously don’t need him to increase box offce.

I can't answer that.

They could cast a bunch of apes in their films and gross 400 million domestic. People go for the spectacle and then rationalize the rest.

I'm seriously sick of comic movies and I grew up a comic fan. It's kind of weird seeing something you were made fun of for reading 20 years ago become so incredibly mainstream.

Yeah, Robert Redford doesn't have any money.

:facepalm:

He's only been acting for 50+ years, been an Oscar Winner, founded the Sundance Film Festival and later started the Sundance Channel and is worth a couple hundred million dollars. I'm sure he really needed the payday from the next Captain America film to stay afloat.

"They" don't need him. But if Robert Redford decides he want to be in a film, I'm pretty certain he doesn't get turned down.

He's probably doing it for his grandchildren or something.

CAPTAIN AMERICA 2: the NEW Suit for THE WINTER SOLDIER

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the first one sucked- I hope this one sucks less-lol

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concept art of the Winter Soldier

Disney previews new Thor, Captain America films

On Wednesday afternoon, Disney’s CineEurope presentation was led by a never-before-seen production featurette for Thor: The Dark World. As with The Avengers, the film will launch in Europe before the US (it starts rolling out in October). Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) directs and Chris Hemsworth again stars as Thor.

The studio also showed footage and behind-the-scenes footage from Captain America The Winter Soldier, which launches in spring 2014. Production artwork was revealed for new villain The Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie. Director Joe Russo said in a taped interview: “It’s going to be much greater than any Marvel movie to date.”

I thought Falcon was good?

http://marvel.com/universe/Falcon_(Sam_Wilson)

Holy shit.

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Looks pretty good

actually looks alright

This looks great! Marvel is on point again!
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When is the last time Redford was actually in a movie?

He's into producing and starring in Indie movies these days. He recently did a film with my neighbor that also starred Shia Lebeouf.

He's got a pretty heavy slate upcoming, especially for a 77 year old.

He's also getting some Oscar buzz for his lost at sea drama "All is Lost". Looks good.
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'Stalingrad' Actor Thomas Kretchmann to Play Villain in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'

Thomas Kretschmann, who plays Abraham van Helsing on NBC's Dracula, has signed on for a major villain role in The Avengers: Age of Ultron.



Joss Whedon is writing and directing the sequel, which reunites the main cast of Marvel's massive superhero team-up movie. The movie is also adding new actors and heroes to the fold, such as Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlett Witch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver.

Additionally, the main villain is a sentient artificial being known as Ultron, who will be played by James Spader.

Sources say that Kretschmann will play Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, an antagonist for both Captain America (Chris Evans) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). In the comics, the man was a Nazi officer who becomes one of the heads of HYDRA, a terrorist organization.


Kretschmann's other credits include Peter Jackson's King Kong and Wanted with Angelina Jolie. He is also one of the stars of Stalingrad, the acclaimed Russian war movie that will be released on IMAX domestically in February.

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Really looking forward to this. Interesting how they are basically starting the Summer movie season a month early with this opening in early April. I guess they moved it because of Spiderman opening in early May.

Can't believe Winter Soldier reaches the big screen before Nightwing does.. DC deserves a lot of facepalm.

They would need 2 movies at least for him to even be there.

No they don't. They just need a half-decent script. There's speculation that he's going to be in Batman vs Superman too.

Outside of Nolan DC is nothing but facepalm.

Compared to Marvel anyway.

Ugh...the first one was so bad. Then I saw the Avengers and couldnt figure out how that movie set a box office record.

For someone who doesn't like super hero movies you sure watch a lot of them.
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That is a terrible poster, it looks like shes bobbing her head back and forth dancing to music with her guns. While this is Scarlett Johansen and everything she does it hot, it still looks awkward.

I dont care what anyone thinks, Avengers 3-D was awesome, rarely have I ever felt that I got more than my $8 worth from a movie, but I sure did on this one.

I liked the first Cap film. I thought it had the most heart out of them all, Chris Evans definitely was a good choice imo. I personally thought Cap looked like the weakest Avenger in The Avengers. He gets beat up the whole movie and in the end only saves a handful of people from a building. I hope Cap is represented better in The Age of Ultron.

Not sure how I missed this during the game, but....wow...

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I don't think they showed this full trailer during the game? I remember only seeing about a 30 second clip. They then directed you to the web to watch the full trailer. a few movies did this last night.

This just keeps looking better and better.
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Agree. I saw the trailer and it didn't show nearly that much. Looks like Marvel is firing some pretty big guns in this one.

I didn't even see the 30 during the game, I must've fast-forwarded through it.

Best viewing of the superbowl I've ever had, by the way. Started watching about 7 o'clock, fast-forwarded through a bunch of the crappy commercials. Got synched up with live with about 5 minutes to go.

Good to see after DC owning the BO for the first 50 years of Supes flicks...

So Captain A needs Falcons help.


So once again I ask, why doesn't he call Tony Stark, Thor and Bruce Banner as well?

Rumor today that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are in the movie in some way (maybe just mentioned but not seen). Part of the lead-in to Age of Ultron.

Their straight to home release animated movies are very good. Theatre releases are shaky at best for their track record. Superman is a tough one to tackle because the bastard is invincible so it detracts from creating a real drama in my opinion. You can only play out the various methods of delivery of kryptonite story so much when we're talking about a series of movies.

War Machine !!!!!!!!!!

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Because Banner doesn't want to be called. He doesn't want to be the Hulk or have any part of this "team."

Stark is in the middle of having panic attacks and impulsive behaviors like destroying his own suits to distance himself from the supes life (in IM3.)

Thor is an ET/god.

How the **** do you get one of those on the phone?

On top of that keep in mind Cap was frozen in ice in 1945 and thawed out in (insert date of first CA film.) Just going to the grocery store ****ing confuses the guy...

For those not complete comix geeks there's another Hulk/Falcon tie in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wilson_(comics)

This would be one of the story arcs that makes me recommend funny books to grown adults. It was one of the first mature approaches to the idea of a "partner" and a very blunt treatment of the topic of AIDS.

Extremely well written and a subtle (but impacting) part of the Hulk storyline...

This is only an issue for bad writers who need to crutch on mindless action scenes. There's so much you can do with Superman that has already been done. Read All Star Superman or At the End of Days, they will completely mind**** you.

In All Star, Lex tricks Superman into saving a space mission too close to the sun, over-radiating his cells which makes him more smart and powerful than ever but slowly kills him ala cancer. So right at the start both we and Supes knows he's going to die at the end. It basically becomes a "what would Superman do in his last few days of living?" type of episodic adventure and by the end he smashes atoms together with his fingers to create a universe in which there are no superheroes (our universe) so he could find out if the world would be okay without him. He also embeds himself into his own timeline so that he could see his dad once more before he dies.. it's incredible.

At the End of Days is just a fantastically nutty invasion story except it's a 5th dimensional creature invading Earth. Since time is the 4th dimension, he attacks the earth at all points in time simultaneously so he fights Superman throughout his entire life and defeats him in each instance except for the most current.. because since Superman's been fighting him his whole life, he already knows how to beat him ROFL

This is why I hate the whole Nolan/Snyder take on the DC Universe where they drag the characters down for the sake of "realism" and "grittyness." They don't need to be real or gritty to be interesting.. they're superheroes.

Both of those story arcs sound dumb as shit...

What if I told you a story where Batman quits being Batman until Catwoman steals his mom's pearls and then Bane takes over Gotham and then gets shot by Catwoman while Batman takes a nuke into the ocean just like how the Adam West 60's movie ended ROFL

Or how about, Jonathan Kent dies saving his dog from a tornado so Supes becomes an emo bum before setting off a signal that leads Zod to Earth. They then punch each other on screen for an hour, resulting in the mass destruction of Metropolis and Smallville before Supes executes him by snapping his neck ROFL

But. I am pumped the **** up for the new CAP. It looks good. Very good.

That sounds much better.

I really just hate Superman. I mean, he's a ****ing beast don't get me wrong; but he's a pansy do-gooder and some of the shit he does is just so cheap.

Creating a new universe by rubbing his fingers together? Seriously..

Stark is not playing hero right now.

Asgard isn't exactly a local call.

You don't fire up the Hulk unless the world is at stake.

So you would prefer we live in a world where Nolan never touched Batman, a world where the The Dark Knight (2008) was never made? I'm not with you.

Sure, it's a step up from Batman Forever but people talk about these movies like they are the end-all of all Batman stories when they're largely still shite. Anyone (Nolan and Snyder especially) who takes an established franchise and goes "you know what, how about we take these fictional superheroes and make them more real by making them wear makeup and armor and have them kill the bad guys at the end" is entirely missing the point. At least in the Marvel flicks there's none of that pretentious bullshit and they don't take themselves too seriously, which is a large part of their success.

I mean, come on. Man of Steel was like, "let's take the most uplifting and hopeful character and completely make him ****ing miserable and have a punch out fest for half an hour at the end before he executes Zod. What's more, let's even VISUALLY take out all the color and overlay it with with a complete gray/saturated look just so people know that this is a miserable and exhausting movie, even for the character. Why? Because it's more real." ROFL

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Glad to see they're finally using his shield more. This might be pretty decent...

Yeah, these new trailers look bad ass.

I feel like I get this feeling before every summer but... Damn.

I think this is gonna be a good one.

What's interesting is Marvel is effectively kicking off the summer movie season a month early with this. Sony had already claimed the traditional early May weekend with Spider Man.
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Chris Evans, is signed on to do 9 movies so.....

Will never happen. Movies != comic continuity. That's like asking "when is Dick Grayson going to be Batman on screen" -- just not gunna happen (sadly). They already did a nod to Bucky's run as Cap in the first movie where he uses the shield.

Interesting little set visit/interview: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/66425

Rocket Racoon has you covered.

At this point with all the awesome stuff going on with Marvel Studios I don't even care about Spider Man.

Or as Groot would say, "I am Groot."

I think some of that you have to chalk up to the difference in mediums. Meanwhile...more Scarlett Johanssen as Black Widow. Yum.

Shooting all her scenes for upcoming Marvel films now since she's preggo and before it shows.

That suit is going to explode in the chest after she's had her kid and her bust goes to "visible from space" levels!

No complaints from this side of the table, mind you.

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So do you all know something I don't know about Bucky being in it? I looked on IMDB and it looks like him, penny and Howard Stark are all in it. Is there word on WTF is going on? Is this a comic book thing I'm supposed to know?

Ha, yep. Don't know if you want to be surprised or not but spoiler follows...

Yea, is it truly a spoiler about the Bucky thing?

some people don't read the comics at all, and take all their information from the movie continuity.

Yup, if you only watch the films it will be a pretty big surprise unless you read it on the internet.

Yeah. I had no clue. Most of the people I talk to IRL haven't read the comics.

my buddies are in the same vein, hence the spoiler tags for the non-comic book hipsters.

This won't last long, first 10 minutes or so of the movie: http://www.blastr.com/2014-3-18/watc...dier-right-now

shhh that's a spoiler