You’d think it might be a little too early to be talking about CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 with AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON on the distant horizon when in reality, things are just heating up. Pre-production is in full swing and it seems the first draft of the script is already completed with a start-of-principal-photography date in April of 2015. The Russo brothers recently dished out a few details regarding the story, all of which you can read here, but I’ve included some highlights.
The Russo brothers on the when and where of shooting:
Joe Russo: We shoot in the spring, April I believe. We’ll be in Atlanta.
Anthony Russo: No it’s not an all-Atlanta shoot, it’s a lot of stage work in Atlanta. There’s other locations that are also involved that I don’t think we can get into.
Joe Russo: Typically you go to Atlanta, you do your stage work, and then move on to locations after that. So there’s various locations.
In regards to how far along the script is for CAPTAIN AMERICA 3:
Anthony Russo: We started meeting with [screenwriters] Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and Nate Moore, the producer on the movie, back in February. So we’ve been sort of through a very lengthy process of exploring what the movie can be with them, and Markus and McFeely just turned in their first draft last week, an excellent first draft.
Joe Russo: Great first draft. Those guys are really talented.
Joe Russo on Jeremy Renner‘s comments regarding Hawkeye being in CAPTAIN AMERICA 3:
I was gonna say Renner might be misremembering because he was supposed to be in Cap 2 but we couldn’t make his schedule work [laughs]. Maybe that’s what he’s talking about. It’s certainly difficult. Everyone involved in these films are all movie stars, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that they’re in Marvel movies, so all of their schedules are booked up. It does become very complicated. There were iterations of Cap 2 that had Hawkeye and Widow in it, there was an iteration that had just Widow in it and there was an iteration that had nobody in it. You explore all of those iterations until you settle on what you think is the most potent or most powerful. And sometimes scheduling issues assist in that decision making process.
Anthony Russo on when the title will be announced:
It will be soon. Look, sometimes the announcement waits on certain business deals to be completed so we’re just kind of waiting on the business end of the issue to sort of settle itself and we’ll be ready to announce it. But we’re hoping in a month or so at the most.
Recently Jeremy Renner hinted that there may be a role for him in CAP 3, although the Russo’s denied that. It’s hard to tell if they’re playing coy at this point or not, but I certainly hope that they get their wish in announcing the title for CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 soon. With a first draft already turned in, they obviously have a very clear view of what’s going on in the end of this trilogy, and the search for the Winter Soldier is pretty much a given. Regardless of what they call it, CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 is bound to be one of the most anticipated Marvel films ever made.
CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 will begin filming in April of 2014 for a May 6, 2016 release!