Overview
- Mackie said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast on Nov. 13–14 that he would like two additional standalone Captain America films so Sam Wilson can complete a three-film arc.
- Sam Wilson is confirmed as Captain America in the crossover Avengers: Doomsday, which positions him in a leadership role and opens Dec. 18.
- Captain America: Brave New World underperformed in 2025, earning about $415 million worldwide and receiving mixed-to-negative reviews, and that commercial result complicates Marvel’s willingness to greenlight more solo outings.
- Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has announced a planned “soft reset” of the MCU after Avengers: Secret Wars (2027), and Marvel has not publicly decided which actors or characters will continue unchanged after that reset.
- Marvel’s comic history and recent films show multiple characters can carry the shield, so the studio has options for Sam Wilson’s future that range from more solo films to shared or recast stewardship of Captain America.