Some Crossbones-Heavy ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Footage Debuted At Disney D23

The Disney 23 Expo raged forward on Saturday with a Captain America: Civil War presentation. Marvel’s Kevin Feige also spoke about Doctor Strange (the Tilda Swinton casting news we’ve already heard) and introduced some concert art. With Strange filming not set to begin until November, the big focus for Marvel was Civil War.

Anthony Mackie took the stage after an overnight flight from Germany where filming is ongoing for one more week: “I can’t introduce the Civil War without … CAPTAIN AMERICA!” Evans popped out and waxed effusive about Disney. The dude loves to go home at night and watch YouTube videos of people enjoying themselves on vacation with Mickey. Mackie hit back with his own quip: “And then we go into our trailers and sing the song from Frozen.” A little weird? Evans tweets about Disney on a regular basis, so he’s not messing around:

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Now onto the business of how Iron Man and Captain America will go head to head. We already saw some set photos of Crossbones, and Marvel screened some Crossbones-heavy footage.

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Entertainment Weekly describes the footage. Cap, Black Widow, and Falcon observe a crowded market in a third-world country. Crossbones appears and tosses a bomb onto Cap’s shield, but he tosses it into the sky where the bomb explodes:

He is now unarmed, and Crossbones pummels him. The rest of Crossbones’ crew springs to action. Falcon blocks machine gun fire with his wings. Black Widow flips through the air, sending bad guys flying. Crossbones grips Cap and slams him into a concrete wall. He leers at the hero from behind a metallic, skull-shaped masked. “You dropped a building on my face,” he snarls, a reference to the conclusion of The Winter Soldier. Cap rips his gauntlet off and pushes free, then tears off the metal mask. Crossbones kneels, defeated, and mutters: “You know … he remembered you. Your pal … your buddy … Your Bucky.” Turns out, Captain America does have a weak spot.

Cap’s Bucky remembered him. We knew this already, of course, but it’s nice to hear the sentiment articulated onscreen. Now for some political details interspersed with more Bucky drama:

From there we get the Marvel Studios logo and cut to William Hurt as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross—the former general, known as the nemesis of The Incredible Hulk. “The world owes you an unpayable debt,” Ross says as images of past heroism play onscreen. “While a great many people see you as a hero, there are some who prefer the word vigilante. People are afraid.” Cap is indignant. “This job, we try to save as many as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody,” he says. Then we see a shot familiar to anyone who waited for the end credits scene after Ant-Man. The Winter Soldier himself, Cap’s old friend Bucky Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan), is trapped in a warehouse with his metallic arm locked in a vice. “Buck … You know me?” The assassin whose mind was wiped in the previous Captain America movie looks up. “My mom’s name was Sarah,” he says. “You used to wear newspapers in your shoes.” Then we get a reunion between Cap and another powerful being: Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. “Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth,” he says.

Then “a flash of heroes” appear. Vision, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, and Ant-Man all appear, both in regular street clothes and in costume.

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Finally, Feige dropped an Easter egg, which (sadly) isn’t Spider-Man himself. It’s the holding cell where Winter Soldier was revealed in a one-shot. So Civil War will continue where Age of Ultron left off (with the crop of new Avengers) and pick up the pieces left by Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. And it looks like Black Widow is still kicking ass.

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(via Entertainment Weekly)