Captain America 4"s New Release Date Breaks 14-Year MCU Trend
Summary
- Captain America: Brave New World's release date of February 14, 2025, will mark four years between Sam Wilson's last appearance as the character which was previously only two years between Avengers: Endgame and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
- Chris Evans' appearances as Captain America every year from 2011 to 2019 highlight the MCU's failure in developing Anthony Mackie's version of the character.
- The lack of appearances for Sam Wilson's Captain America reflects the MCU's overabundance of characters and content, resulting in the unintentional sidelining of important characters.
Captain America: Brave New World's new release date means the MCU is breaking a trend that has been ongoing for 14 years. In November 2023, the end of the SAG-AFTRA strikes meant that updates on upcoming Marvel shows and movies came thick and fast. One of these updates concerned the changing release dates of the MCU's Phase 5 projects, specifically the movies of 2024 and 2025.
One of these movies was Captain America: Brave New World which was previously scheduled for release on July 26, 2024. However, in light of negative test screening scores and planned reshoots, Captain America 4's release date has been pushed back to February 14, 2025. This new release date means that the MCU is breaking a 14-year-old trend concerning Captain America's MCU timeline ahead of Sam Wilson's first solo adventure as the star-spangled man.