It gave it room to breathe but forced it to get back on track quickly. Six became the number because it forced the storytelling. Which was yes, go as deep as a serialized story can go, but also have the urgency of a movie. And as we told the story and broke it and stretched it out, it just naturally came to create the energy that Marvel and Kevin (Feige) wanted. “They were figuring out the model with me.
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“We were first up, so there were no other series going,” he explains. Spellman adds that the show’s reformatting from the originally announced eight episodes to six was simply a matter of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier being the first to go into production (even though WandaVision ended up premiering first) and Marvel figuring out the format for the first time. I must have said something that sounded way chunkier than the truth, which is that it wasn’t a major thing.” I’m trying to figure out what I’ve said with my big mouth that made people think there’s a story here. “There was no downside to it,” he remarks. Spellman acknowledges that some aspects of the plot were left undeveloped, but that the conjecture has been blown out of proportion. Speculation has been flying around for a while that certain subplots - including one heavily rumored plotline involving the villainous Flag-Smashers unleashing some kind of virus on the world - were jettisoned from the series because of a) production delays and changes due to the real-life COVID-19 pandemic, b) sensitivity to what was happening in the world with regards to that, and c) the slimming of the show from eight episodes to six. The “bunch of plot” comment is an interesting one. The other significant person was John Walker (Wyatt Russell), the government’s official selection to take over as Captain America - who ended up not being a wise choice at all despite good intentions.īut whether others in the series might have been in the running is kind of a moot question now, according to Spellman: “It fell by the wayside pretty quickly, because there was such poignancy to Sam’s journey that we very quickly did not have to clutter it with a bunch of plot and a bunch of tricks.”
Of course, Sam wasn’t the only person to carry the shield in the now-concluded six-episode series. Marvel Minimates - Fighting Chance Captain America And Marvels Falcon. “I won’t get into what, but maybe different people were going to be holding the shield in other episodes.” Marvel: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Captain America. This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.įrom the moment that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier first premiered, it wasn’t really much of a spoiler to say that we all knew that the show would end - one way or another - with Sam Wilson/The Falcon (Anthony Mackie) picking up the shield for real and embracing the identity of Captain America.īut according to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier head writer Malcolm Spellman, the path to that singular image of Sam in his new Wakandan-built outfit and wings, shield on his arm, might have gone several different ways: “We entertained a lot of different stuff,” he tells Den of Geek.
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