Following John Walker’s transformation into U.S. Agent in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Wyatt Russell discusses his potential future within the MCU.

Wyatt Russell shares his ideas on the way forward for U.S. Agent within the Marvel Cinematic Universe following The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Marvel Studios’ second live-action sequence to premiere on Disney+ started with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) declining the mantle of Captain America and giving up the defend. On the finish of episode 1, audiences had been launched to John Walker (Russell), a three-time Medal of Honor recipient chosen by the federal government to be a “new Captain America.” Suffice to say, Falcon and the Winter Solider‘s eponymous characters and its viewers seen him as a knock-off of Steve Rogers. 

All through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Wilson, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and Walker pursue Karli Morgenthau and her anti-nationalist group of super-soldiers, the Flag-Smashers. Motivated by impostor syndrome and total inadequacy, Walker takes the Tremendous Soldier Serum in episode 4. Following the abrupt demise of his brother in arms, Lemar Hoskins, an enraged and excessive Walker chases down a Flag-Smasher and beats him to demise with the once-mighty defend. After being stripped of the “Cap” mantle, abandoning vengeance, and dealing with the actual heroes, La Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) gives offers him a black uniform and a brand new mantle in “U.S. Agent.”

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In an interview with Collider, Russell mirrored on his character’s arc in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. When requested if he’d wish to see his character delve deep into his “villainy,” the actor mentioned what John Walker/U.S. Agent may grow to be in future MCU initiatives. Russell defined that there have been many potential paths for the character, saying:

“I haven’t actually even considered, if the character comes again, what I hope he turns into. There are such a lot of alternative ways which you could go together with it. I simply hope that no matter it’s, is sustained alongside this line of this wrestle with self. That’s one thing that I can do, in addition to I believe it must be achieved. So long as he has that battle inside himself, he can have a change of thoughts and he can undergo remedy. There are many alternative ways you may go. I solely ever hope that it goes an attention-grabbing approach, however a sure approach, that’s less than me.”

The U.S. Agent reveal in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (in addition to Baron Zemo imprisoned in The Raft) implied an anti-hero/villain workforce being assembled, à la the Darkish Avenger or the Thunderbolts. Valentina’s recruitment of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in Black Widow, her function in Disney+’s Hawkeye, and the resurgence of Abomination (Tim Roth) have additional cemented this idea. Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that Jake Schreier and Eric Pearson are creating an MCU Thunderbolts film, which would be the equal of DC’s Suicide Squad. Whereas no forged members have been introduced, it’s rumored to characteristic Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl), Yelena Belova, Abomination, and probably Russell’s U.S. Agent.

Russell says he has but to get a name from Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios, and nothing official has been introduced relating to his MCU future. Presumably, he’ll return as U.S. Agent within the upcoming Thunderbolts movie or alongside Mackie within the introduced Captain America 4. Within the comics, U.S. Agent may be very a lot an anti-hero performing as a deconstruction of patriotism. John Walker’s redemption on the finish of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier didn’t fairly win all everybody over, which is probably going for the perfect. As Russell says, so long as U.S. Agent has a “battle” inside himself, he’ll stay an attention-grabbing character to discover.

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Supply: Collider

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