With all due respect to them, it was something of a surprise when Joe and Anthony Russo were picked to be the directors of Marvel’s forthcoming Captain America sequel, The Winter Soldier. It’s not that they’re bad choices – far from it – rather that they were unpredictable ones. We suspect they might be wise ones, too.
Turns out that it was as much of a shock to the brothers themselves. The pair, whose directorial work on Community firmly put them on Marvel’s radar, are set to get to work on the movie shortly. And Anthony Russo has been chatting to IGN about how they got involved.
“It sort of came out of the blue”, he confirmed, but as it turns out, Marvel were "big fans of Community. You can sort of draw a line between some things we did on Community and a Marvel movie. I think if you look at some of the big genre episodes there’s a cinematic sensibility being explored there that is in the language of those films”.
Confirming that he and his brother “were comic book geeks from a young age”, Russo argued that coming from television, with interconnected narratives from episode to episode, suits the Marvel cinematic universe. And while he wasn’t spilling much on The Winter Soldier, he did confirm “we’re trying to grow him as a character”.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is set for release in April 2014.
IGN.
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