Last year, after receiving negative test scores, Julius Onah’s “Captain America: Brave New World” was delayed to February 2025 and was getting extensive reshoots with three major sequences being cut.
‘Brave New World’ had originally wrapped filming in June 2023, and was set for a July 2024 release date, so something must be up with this one. You don’t just push a movie this big out of your calendar , and dump it in February, unless trouble is brewing.
It now looks like the film is getting a second round of reshoots in Georgia. Matthew Orton was hired by Marvel to pen additional scenes and material. Orton’s work is being shot in this latest bout of additional photography which includes star Anthony Mackie.
Should we start worrying about this latest ‘Captain America’ movie? It’s a real bummer that Onah has to go through this ordeal — he was a Sundance darling in 2019 for directing the excellent “Luce.” Now, he’s been zapped into the Marvel machine.
Daniel Richtman had previously stated that the reason why Disney called for months of extensive reshoots was because Marvel, who got to see a rough cut of the film, felt that the action scenes “were not big or satisfying enough.”
‘Brave New World’ is based on earlier drafts by Dalan Musson and Malcolm Spellman, the latter of which was head writer on “The Falcon And The Winter Soldier.” The film stars Anthony Mackie, Liv Tyler, Harrison Ford, Shira Haas, Tim Blake Nelson, Rosa Salazar, Danny Ramirez, and Carl Lumbly.