On April 26 of this 12 months, two days after the season finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuted on Disney+, actor Anthony Mackie was shopping for groceries. One presumes it was a traditional day… till one thing surprising occurred. His grocery knowledgeable him of a brand new improvement within the Marvel Cinematic Universe that he’d been a part of for seven years, 5 films, and one TV collection: Marvel was going to make a fourth Captain America film and he was set to star. Though it was information to him on the time, it’s now change into “official.”

You may assume the grocery retailer was a bizarre—maybe even unlikely—means for Mackie to find a brand new Cap film was within the works, provided that the actor has been an integral a part of the MCU generally and the Captain America films specifically ever since he debuted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. You may even assume that Mackie and Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige had mentioned the potential of the actor starring in a brand new Cap film previous to April, provided that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV collection was already planning to finish with Mackie’s Sam Wilson taking the costume, identify, and position of Captain America after an aged Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) bequeathed him the defend in Avengers: Endgame.

But apparently, two days after TFatWS ended and god is aware of what number of months of filming, nobody had introduced up the chance to Mackie, in line with none apart from Mackie himself! As he informed Entertainment Weekly on April 27, simply sooner or later after a grocery retailer worker broke the information to him: “I literally found out yesterday in a grocery store. The checkout guy named Dwayne, a cool cat, he’s like, ‘Yo, man. Is this real?!’ [holds up a cellphone] I’m like, ‘I haven’t heard anything.’ That’s what I love about working for Marvel. They call you, they’re like, ‘Come to L.A. We wanna tell you what’s going on.’ So, I’m excited to see what happens, but I haven’t heard anything.”

And why on Earth would Mackie lie? I imply, it’s such a ridiculous concept that nobody would have introduced up the potential of a fourth Cap film to the person now taking part in Captain America by that time—there’s no potential cause that Mackie would have stated such a factor except it was God’s sincere fact. Most likely Disney had had the dialog however no contract was finalized on the time the information broke.

Thankfully right this moment, Deadline has confirmed that Mackie has lastly closed a deal to star in Captain America 4. We assume (however one by no means is aware of!) that the ink has lastly dried on that contract—one he’s been made conscious of contemplating he’ll be headlining his personal MCU film. If not, one can solely pray that he’s heading to the grocery retailer later right this moment so he can hear the information. Again.

There’s no phrase on the director for this movie but, or if Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier shall be in it, however we do comprehend it’s being written by TFatWS’s creator Malcolm Spellman and collection author Dalan Musson, which may not be nice information, contemplating. Hopefully, Mackie ordered pizza for dinner that night time.

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