The latest trailer for Captain America: Brave New World has a distinctly odd vibe. It’s the font, partly, which is blocky and sans-serif and no fun whatsoever; it’s also the snippets of spy-movie dialogue we’ve all heard a hundred times before (someone’s pulling the strings! You’re compromised!). It might also be the presence of Harrison Ford (replacing William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross), but there’s a distinctly Tom Clancy-movie feel to these proceedings.
At least there is until Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) cracks open his fancy wings. Whatever else may be going on here—including the full reveal of Red Hulk, if you’re into that sort of thing—at least the former Falcon turned Captain America really knows how to use that suit. One certainly hopes that if they’re going to throw “slices a car in half while doing a cartwheel” away in the trailer, they’ve got even better moves saved for the actual movie.
This new trailer leans hard on the perplexing actions of Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), an early survivor of the Super Soldier Serum trials, who seems to go into a daze and attack now-President Ross. Sam wants to understand, but Sam may be more than ever under the thumb of the government; in the previous trailer, we saw Ross offering (or threatening) to make Captain America an official military position.
But Giancarlo Esposito is here being suspicious, and Tim Blake Nelson is set to return as The Leader (his role in The Incredible Hulk). What it all means—and the role Shira Haas’ Ruth Bat-Seraph plays in it—obviously remains to be seen.
Captain America: Brave New World is directed by Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox) and written by Dalan Musson, Malcolm Spellman, and Matthew Orton. It comes to you as a lovely Valentine on February 14th, 2025. Surely that date has nothing to do with Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
