More Reshoots on ‘Captain America: Brave New World'?

This is news to me, and only adds to the red flags that have surrounded this project for almost two years now.

A month ago, I was told that the much delayed, and severely reshot, “Captain America: Brave New World” more or less had a final cut ready for its February 14, 2025 release date. Now, Giancarlo Esposito, one of the actors in the movie, is saying that he’s headed back for more reshoots next week? Again, news to me, but I shouldn’t be surprised by this latest development given all of the drama that’s unfolded on this movie.

‘Brave New World’ had originally wrapped filming in June 2023, and was set for a July 2024 release date, but it’s now turned into this problematic mess for Marvel. You just don’t push a movie this big out of your calendar, and then decide to dump it in February, unless major trouble is brewing.

Last year, after receiving negative test scores, and Marvel themselves underwhelmed by an early cut they saw of the film, ‘Brave New World’ was delayed to February 2025. Extensive reshoots were called, with “three major action sequences” having been filmed, between May and August 2024 in Atlanta.

Last December, Matthew Orton was hired by Marvel to pen “additional scenes and material”. Orton’s work was shot during this summer’s reshoots. They’ve also added new characters to the story.

Two different cuts of the film test screened last month, and plot details for one of the cuts leaked online. Based on the folks I’ve spoken to, those who attended were either given a red or green bracelet and were split up into two different theaters. The reactions I’ve heard have not been very kind to this movie, which is being described as “inessential” and “flat.”

Will audiences even show up to a Captain America movie that doesn’t star Chris Evans? ‘Brave New World,’ which is said to have an epic $350M budget, stars Anthony Mackie, Liv Tyler, Harrison Ford, Shira Haas, and Tim Blake Nelson, and is set to be released in theaters on February 14, 2025.