Marvel's Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 live-action superhero film produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios based on the iconic story arc by the same name. It is the overall eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was released worldwide May 6th 2016.
Production[]
During The Avengers Joss Whedon had borrowed a few elements from the comic arc of Civil War in regards to Captain America and Iron Man's relationship. Though he didn't adapt their violent rivalry, focusing more their inherent ideological differences and disagreements as a minor plot in the second act. This was done under the confident assumption by Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would never truly do the Civil War arc in a full capacity.
In 2014 after the massive critical success of Joe and Anthony Russo's Captain America: The Winter Solider the Russos were given free reign to do essentially anything they wanted for their next movie, the end of the Captain America trilogy. Having a deep respect for the universe and its character, the Russos brought up their idea of having the third movie be based on Civil War, seeing that as one of the most memorable and important moments of Captain America's career as an Avenger. The Russos having earned the trust of Marvel Studios were open minded to the idea despite the large contractual and budgetary obligations needed to create such a film. Marvel Studios as well wanted to produce another popular film along the lines of The Winter Soldier and heavily encouraged contract negotiations with Robert Downey Jr. as well as the majority of the Avengers and Iron Man supporting casts. Making it one of the largest non-Avengers MCU films to date.
Captain America: Civil War was eventually announced at comic con summer 2015 as part of the Phase 3 line up slated for a May 2016 release date. The Russos assuring the fanbase that even though they would be adapting heavily from the comics, the movie would still act as a Captain America film above all else and continue the plot threads left over from The Winter Soldier. Including the whereabouts of Bucky Barnes and the remnants of Hydra. It was also confirmed that Daniel Brühl was cast to join the film as its main villain, Baron Helmut Zemo, who teased in interviews that he would be a recurring menace in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after his Civil War appearance.
Cast[]
- Chris Evans as Steven "Steve" Rogers/Captain America
- Daniel Brühl as Helmut Zemo/Baron Zemo
- Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones
- Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony "Tony" Stark/Iron Man
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
- Jeremy Renner as Clinton "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye
- Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
- Paul Bettany as Vision
- Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Sebastian Stan as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier
- Cobie Smulders as Director Maria Hill
- Rebecca Hall as Bethany Cabe/Rescue
- Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War-Machine
- Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
- Evangeline Lily as Janet Van Dyne/The Wasp
- Emily Van Camp as Agent Sharon Carter
- Adrian Pasdar as General Glenn Talbot
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts
- Danai Gurira as Okoye
- Kerry Condon as Friday (Voice)
- Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson (Cameo)
- Afre Woodard as Mariah Dillard (Cameo)
- Marisa Tomei as May Parker (Cameo)
- John Slattery as Howard Stark (Flashback)
- Hope Davis as Maria Stark (Flashback)
- Thomas Kretschmann as Heinrich Zemo (Flashback)