Captain America 3 Director Anthony Russo Says Fans Will 'Freak Out' at New Characters

Jeremy Renner said earlier this week that Hawkeye could appear in Captain America 3, but it looks as though this could be the tip of the iceberg.

Firstly, co-director Anthony Russo told Movies.com that people will "freak out" when they see the characters in the movie. "We just got another incredible draft from the writers and are very excited about the film," he said. "I can't divulge who is going to be in the film, but I think the fans are going to freak out when they hear about it."

The site then asked about the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) and his role in the third movie. "The relationship between Cap and the Winter Soldier was never resolved at the end of the last movie," Russo said. "Thinking about where that relationship can go is a piece of the puzzle for us for sure. That character is a wonderfully, beautifully tragic figure in the sense of is he the world's most feared assassin or is he the world's longest serving POW. Is he innocent by reason of insanity or the equivalent of it because he's been mind controlled or is he irredeemable? Is he ever going to be acceptable to Cap again as the friend that he used to be before he was the Winter Soldier? These are very philosophical, emotional questions that pique our interest and definitely form one layer of the next movie."

Finally, the site spoke to Russo about which Avengers, other than Hawkeye, could appear in the threequel. "As far as where else we want to take the character, we just want to keep moving Cap forward," he said. "We wanted to push the character forward into the modern age with The Winter Soldier, and we want to keep pushing the character forward. We always want to be true to who Captain America is, but we want to surprise people about where he can go and what he's capable of. That's about as specific as I can get about where we might take him."

In a separate interview with MTV News, Russo talked about whether or not Cap 3 would follow the model of Iron Man 3 and bring some closure to the franchise. "It is a hard question to answer because it gets to the specific of where the narratives are going," he said. "I will say this: yes, for satisfying storytelling, you want a beginning, middle and end. That's the natural arc that we all thrive off of in narrative.

"The great thing about the Marvel universe, just like the publishing, it's a very vast, inter-connected universe, where characters will have their rise and fall, so to speak, and hand off to other characters," Anthony Russo said. "As the cinematic universe moves forward, you may start to see the cinematic universe adopt that same pattern, as the publishing has, where there's closure with some characters and new beginnings with other characters. How those hand-offs are made is always part of the fun."

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