Avengers: Infinity War

Captain America: Secret War is an upcoming American superhero film featuring characters from the Marvel Universe, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is intended to be the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the thirteenth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, which uses concepts from the "Secret War" storyline by Brian Michael Bendis. The film stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr., Chadwick Boseman, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Julia Roberts and Frank Grillo. The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in April 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia and is scheduled to be released on May 6, 2016.

Cast
A World War II veteran who was enhanced to the peak of human physicality by an experimental serum and frozen in suspended animation before waking up in the modern world. According to Joe Russo, Captain America does not become a disillusioned antihero stating, “his morality is part of his superpower,” and adding, "...there’s an inspirational quality to his character. So it’s nice to have characters around him that he can inspire. Leadership is also a key component of his, and you can’t lead unless you have other characters around. But he’s also got an expanding universe — Winter Soldier, Agent 13, the Falcon — so there’s already a universe that’s expanding around him." A self-described genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist with electromechanical suits of armor of his own invention. The ruler of the African nation of Wakanda. Boseman has a five picture deal with Marvel. Steve Rogers' best friend, who has reemerged as an enhanced brainwashed assassin after being thought killed in action during World War II. On how the character continues from Winter Soldier, Joe Russo said, the character in Winter Soldier "had the really specific job of basically, you know, being a killing machine and could Cap crack the veneer of that well formed Hydra killing machine? So what’s left to explore obviously is the personality of the character, much the way that Brubaker’s run did after Winter Solider regained a semblance of his past. Philosophical questions that we would want to deal with in Secret War would be, you know, is he redeemable? Is he the worst assassin we’ve ever seen or is he the longest suffering P.O.W.? Where does he live now? Does he ever regain his memories? If he doesn’t regain his memories, can you call him Bucky Barnes or is he somebody new? So it’s a really fascinating character to play with. Very rich."
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America:
 * Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man:
 * Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther:
 * Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier:
 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon: A pararescueman trained by the military in aerial combat using a specially designed wing pack.
 * Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones: Former commander of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s counter-terrorism S.T.R.I.K.E. team, who was revealed to be an agent of Hydra. On returning to the character, Grillo said "He’s a badass. He is just vicious. I like the idea that it’s no holds barred. I was 15 pounds bigger when I did Cap 2, and I'll put another 15 pounds on to do Secret War. I love the physicality. It changes the way you look; it changes the way you feel."
 * Julia Roberts as Lucia von Bardas: Ruler of Latveria. Roberts said "The character is the same in the comics, but more evil and more invloed with the story. She'll have a army of villains working for her and it gonna be fun working with them."

Additionally, Daniel Brühl has been cast in an unspecified role.

Development
By January 2014, Anthony and Joe Russo had signed on to return to direct a third installment, which they confirmed in March 2014, with Chris Evans returning as Captain America, Kevin Feige producing and Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely returning to write the screenplay. Markus and McFeely revealed that they began working on the screenplay in late 2013, while the Russo brothers began work in February 2014. The re-hiring of the directors, three months before the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, came as a result from impressive test screenings with Marvel executives.

In an April 2014 interview, Joe Russo described the project as a continuation of the story from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. "What’s nice about the film is that... it’s a two-parter," said Russo. "There’s a journey that the Winter Soldier goes on that isn’t complete yet. The next movie, it would seem logically to want to be about the completion of that journey." Anthony Mackie, who plays the Falcon in the previous film, concurred, "In the comics, Cap would always call on the Falcon for help, and then they'd go their separate ways. Avengers 2 is one of those instances where Cap goes off and does his thing. Then, he'll circle back around to get my help for Captain America 3. That will pick up where we left off and Avengers 2 will be a segue to something else." Also in April, Marvel announced a release date of May 6, 2016, and Trent Opaloch, who was the cinematographer on The Winter Solider, said he would return for the sequel. In July 2014, Markus and McFeely stated they were midway through a first draft for the film, and filming was expected to begin in April 2015, and the following month, stated they were looking to make the tone of the film "an amalgam" of The First Avenger, The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and The Winter Solider.

In August 2014, the Russos stated that the film takes place “a couple years” after The Winter Soldier left off and will continue to focus on Steve Rogers' relationship with Bucky Barnes while continuing to explore the political themes related to Captain America. “The character was invented for an explicitly political purpose. So it’s hard to get away from that nature,” said Anthony Russo. The Russos also said that they will be “bringing some new elements to the table that will give us a twist on Winter Soldier.” Also in the month, the Russos indicated that filming is scheduled to begin in April 2015 in Atlanta and that Markus and McFeely submitted a first draft of the screenplay they were "ecstatic" with, as well as stating the film's title would be announced "in a month or so at most". Additionally, they said the concept and title for the film came from Feige, who has had it "for a while", with Joe stating, "We can pitch out characters that we think would be interesting in the story. There’s incredible room to move," and Anthony adding that the film has to wrap itself around Feige's idea. In September 2014, Joe expanded by saying the film would have another "big idea that alters the universe as a whole in some way" similar to S.H.I.E.L.D. falling in The Winter Soldier, with the rest of the film, such as the characters, story and tone, left open to the Russos' and writers' interpretation.

Following the November 2014 hacking of Sony Pictures' computers, emails between Sony motion picture chief Amy Pascal and Sony president Doug Belgrad were released, stating that Marvel wanted to include Spider-Man in the film. However, discussions between Sony and Marvel broke down, with Sony planning to go ahead with its already planned slate of Spider-Man films. In the same month, 20th Century Fox confirms that they allow Marvel Studios to uses the characters from X-Men and Fantastic Four and Deadpool in the film.

Pre-production
By October 2014, Robert Downey, Jr. entered final negotiations to reprise his role as Iron Man in the film. Downey was added in order to add life to the film. Variety noted that Marvel initially wanted Downey's part to be smaller, however "Downey wanted Stark to have a more substantial role in the film’s plot." Variety also noted that Downey would receive $40 million plus backend for his participation, as well as an additional payout if the film outperforms Winter Soldier, as the studio would feel the success of the third film would be attributed to Downey. At the end of the month, it was confirmed Stan would return as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier. A few days later, Marvel revealed that film would be titled Captain America: Secret War, confirmed Downey's appearance, and announced that Chadwick Boseman would appear in the film as Black Panther, ahead of a solo film. Feige also confirmed the film would be the first for the MCU's Phase Three of films and that Julia Roberts will be Lucia von Bardas. In November 2014, Daniel Brühl was cast in an unspecified role, while Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo were confirmed to return as Sam Wilson/Falcon and Brock Rumlow/Crossbones, respectively.

Music
In August 2014, Joe Russo stated that Henry Jackman, the composer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, would to score the film.

Release
Captain America: Secret War is scheduled to be released in North America on May 6, 2016. In September 2014, TNT acquired the cable broadcast rights for the film to air two years after its theatrical release.