Giancarlo Esposito will make his debut in the MCU.
Giancarlo Esposito had recently teased his arrival in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, during a panel with fans. Denying that he would play a new version of Professor Charles Xavier, the Breaking Bad actor announced: CIt will happen sooner than you think.”
“The MCU knocked on my door and it’s a role you can’t predict. It will be teased and there will be a series afterward.”
According to Variety And The Hollywood Reporterso it's in the new movie Captain America that Giancarlo Esposito will make his big debut at Marvel. Shooting has just resumed in Atlanta, for a duration of 22 days, almost a year after the end of filming. These reshoots will make it possible to include new action scenes and therefore the character played by Esposito, for the moment kept secret, but who would be a villain.
A scriptwriter of the series Moon KnightMatthew Orton, was hired this winter after the film's release was postponed from July 2024 to February 2025. Marvel had plenty of time to do test sessions, notes the THRand prepare these reshoots, which are far from catastrophic compared to the six weeks of reshoots Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. And the film's budget would not have exploded like that of The Marvels.
We will see Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) officially become the new Captain America In Brave New Worldcontinuing the series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The cast is completed by Harrison Ford, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny Ramirez and Rosa Salazar.