Captain America: Winter Soldier Trailer Unveiled

Captain America Disney and Marvel have just released the brand new trailer for Captain America: Winter Soldier, giving us a long-awaited glimpse of the forthcoming superhero sequel that is set for release next year, with Chris Evans returning as the American hero. The official synopsis for the film, which reunites Cap with former sidekick Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), in the new villainous guise of The Winter Soldier, was released earlier this summer, following the start of Marvel's Phase Two with Iron Man 3. The film will follow the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, and find Steve Rogers living quietly in Washington, DC, and trying to adjust to the modern world. Naturally, when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague is attacked, Cap is dragged into a web of intrigue that puts the world at risk, and teams back up with Black Widow, and new ally The Falcon to tackle the villainous plot, and the Winter Soldier. Here's the new trailer... All-in-all it looks great. The trailer, which was typically and wholly unnecessarily teased with a trailer for the trailer earlier, inspires a number of observations: firstly, the Winter Soldier himself looks an awful lot like he's been ripped wholesale out of Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance, and there's not an awful lot of him in the trailer, suggesting that Marvel don't want too much screen-time to give away any secrets. Then of course there's the addition of Robert Redford, fresh from making the excellent All Is Lost, and looking sharper than diamond in his immaculately cut suit. The Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie looks great, but there's still a major question mark over the absence of Hawkeye, considering his professional employment with S.H.I.E.L.D. And finally, it seems that Scarlet Johansson's Black Widow has gone through something of a change, given that her accent has gone from cool and international to bearing odd hallmarks of a valley girl in the gap between the Avengers and now. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is released in the UK on 2 May 2014. The Anthony and Joe Russo-directed movie will also feature Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Robert Redford and Samuel L Jackson.
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