Marvel's Captain America: Civil War (Earth-113599)

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, he did adapt their inherent ideological differences and disagreements as a major 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 adapt the Civil War act 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, Joe and Anthony Russo brought up the idea of having the third movie be an 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 wanting to produce another popular film along the lines of The Winter Soldier heavily encouraged contract negotiations with Robert Downey Jr. and a majority of the Avengers and Iron Man supporting casts in addition to working their schedule to accommodate one of their 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 comic the movie will still act as a Captain America movie above all else and continued 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 would join the film as the 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

• Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

• Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther

• 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

• Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts

• Kerry Condon as Friday

• Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson (Cameo)

• Afre Woodard as Mariah Dillard (Cameo)

• Danai Gurira as Okoye (Cameo)

• Thomas Kretschmann as Heinrich Zemo (Flashback)

Plot

The film starts in Siberia 1991, Heinrich Zemo and his son, Helmut, arrive at a secret Hydra Workshop. Heinrich tells Helmut to pay close attention as one day it will be him giving the orders. Zemo walks inside and is greeted by the guards until opening a cryo-freezer containing the Winter Soldier inside of it. They thaw him and as he awakens the Soldier asks what must be done. Heinrich tells him the blueprints of a advanced bio-technology designed by S.H.I.E.L.D. is rapidly making progress without them. Hydra needs him to sway the political climate in their favor again, steal the blueprints. The Winter Soldier is then shown in the United States where he shoots a car off the road and breaks into the trunk where he finds the necessary blueprints and steals them.