‘Captain America: Civil War’ Might Give Some Weight To All Those Steve Rogers And Bucky Theories

Captain America: Civil War is the next big Marvel project hitting theaters – and even though they weren’t on site to promote the film in China, Joe and Anthony Russo were still hounded by some very thorough and somewhat odd questions on their comic book projects. One of the more interesting questions revolved around the relationship between Bucky and Captain America, mainly if the two former friends turned foes turned friends again were actually feeling a bit of a romantic attachment to each other in the new film:

“People can interpret the relationship however they want to interpret it. For us, we’ve always interpreted the relationship as two brothers. They’re very close characters, they have a relationship with each other that is very deep. The bonds between the characters are very strong. That’s what motivates the storytelling. These are both characters that came from nothing. Captain America was basically an orphan, and Bucky’s family took him in… When he was sleep for several years, he lost everything that was dear to him. And when he took the serum and became Captain America, he gave away a large part of himself for a patriotic cause. So, you have a character who is searching for the only thing that he has left from his past… and that’s Bucky. And people have interpreted that relationship all kinds of ways, and it’s great to see people argue about it what that relationship means to them. We will never define it as filmmakers, explicitly, but however people want to interpret it.”

So feel free to keep doing that fantasy art and writing your slash fiction. It might become canon soon enough and not just fodder for your hobby Tumblr.

The duo also answered some questions about Cap’s relationship with Black Widow and the rising stakes within all the Marvel movies due to the impending arrival of Avengers: Infinity War. There’s also a bit about Cap’s new costume — which is technically his old costume put on film.

The Russos also took a moment to talk about the new direction for Spider-Man now that he’s back in Marvel’s hands. Their description seems to jive with what Tom Holland said earlier about the hero:

A lot of times when you get interpretations of Spider-Man, they’re very nostalgic to the origins of the character. Sometimes there’s an old-fashioned patina to the tone of who Spider-Man is. We wanted to think about who is Spider-Man today — if he lived in Queens today, if he went there, what’s the texture of his life like, what’s the texture of his relationship with his aunt like, who he lives with. How can we make the relationship and character very contemporary?

Making Spider-Man fresh is likely a little easier than tackling Superman or Batman, but it’s still just a bit of an obstacle to hop over. There’s not much wiggle room with Spider-Man’s origins and backstory, especially if you’re staying with Peter Parker. The character will at least stick out among the other Marvel offerings, though, and possibly provide that different story than we’ve seen throughout every Marvel film thus far.

The entire interview can be watched below, but the quality is not the best.

(Via Comic Book Movie)

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