Civil War In The Marvel Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to change is a massive way.

As we learned earlier, Robert Downey Jr. is now in negotiations to star in Joe and Anthony Russo’s “Captain America 3” – a film that is expected to launch big screen adaptation of the massive 2006 Marvel Comics crossover event known as Civil War.

It won’t be long until we start seeing heroes going to toe-to-toe in a fight for and against superhero registration, and it all kicks off in 2016.

What you may not know, however, is that we have already started to see evidence of this brewing conflict in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

This little news rumor comes to us from Badass Digest, which suggests that one of the final scenes in the “Captain America” sequel – specifically the one where Black Widow is sitting in front of a Congressional committee – was included as a means of showing how superhero activity within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is rather unregulated at this point in time.

Apparently this was a late addition to the “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” script, and essentially kick starts some of the bigger themes in Civil War – namely that Iron Man isn’t very happy about superheroes being unregulated and wants to do something about it.

This leads to him supporting the idea of a Superhero Registration Act, where all powered individuals will be forced to register with the government and become accountable for their actions.

Captain America, meanwhile, who had to deal with all kinds of horrible political nonsense in his most recent adventure, isn’t too keen on the idea of a political body controlling him, and he decides to rebel against the system.

“Captain America 3,” which may end up being called “Captain America: The Civil War” or “Captain America: Fallen Son” is being scripted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, with Joe and Anthony Russo back in the director’s chairs. Production is scheduled to start up next Spring, and the film will be out on May 6, 2016. Are you ready?