CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Footage and DOCTOR STRANGE Concept Art Descriptions
Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Studios unleashed the fury of Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange at the D23 Expo this weekend. I was really hoping to see stuff from both of these movies, and thankfully, the audience saw some teaser footage that was freakin’ incredible! We got to see some awesome footage from Civil War and a concept art reel from Doctor Strange.
Captain America: Civil War Footage Description:
The Civil War footage starts out with Captain America and Black Widow scoping out a crowded marketplace in what looks to be a third world country. Falcon is overlooking the situation from a building within the vicinity. He sends out his Red Wing drone, to do a little recon work. “Red Wing activate!” Falcon says, and the drone flies under a truck to scan it. It finds that there’s something built into the truck, and Black Widow exclaims, “It’s a battering ram.”
Cap and Falcon leap off the buildings they are on and run into action, kicking some ass. The shit hits the fan, and Black Widow runs through the marketplace going into badass martial arts action mode. She pulls off some pretty radical movies that we’ve never seen before. Then Crossbones steps out of the back of the truck and into the fight. He and Cap get into it hard. Crossbones is kind of pissed off about what Cap did to him in The Winter Solider. Cap gets the best of him though, rips off his mask, and he’s surprised to see who’s under it. Crossbones then says, “You know, he remembered you. Your pal, your buddy, your Bucky.” Cap looks incredibly confused by this comment.
Then General Ross’ voice cuts in, saying, "The world owes you an unpayable debt. A lot of great and many people see you as a hero. There are some who prefer the word vigilante. People are afraid."
The footage then cuts to a scene with Bucky, Captain America, and Falcon. It’s part of the scene that we saw in the post-credits of Ant-Man. Cap asks Bucky if he knows who he is, and Bucky says yes. We are then treated with a quick shot of Vision, who is dressed in a tuxedo type suit sitting by a chess board. There’s then a shot of a funeral, and the coffin has a Union Jack on it.
We then get a look at Tony Stark, who looks at Cap and says, “Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth.” This is the start of a lot of tension that starts to build. “Without boundaries,” Stark says, “We’re no better than the bad guys.” That’s followed by another line from General Ross, who says, “So far nothing has happened that can’t be undone.”
Stark then says,“We have no boundaries, we’re no better than the bad guys.” Cap responds with, “Is that how you see protection?” There are a bunch of quick cuts, including our first look at Black Panther and Martin Freeman in a room filled with monitors and more. Unfortunately, Spider-Man isn’t shown. Someone asks Cap, “What do we do?” and he responds with, “We fight.”
The footage cuts to War Machine and Iron Man teaming up, and then there’s a shot of Cap’s team coming together. That team includes Falcon and Scarlet Witch, among others. It’s made to look like they run into battle with each other. Then there’s a scene where Hawkeye is fighting Black Widow! She asks, “We’re still friends, right?” To which Hawkeye replies, “It depends on how hard you hit me!”
The footage concludes with a scene set in a parking garage. Falcon opens up the door of a van to reveal Scott Lang is inside, asleep. He jumps up and is incredibly excited to see Steve Rogers standing in front of him. He immediately starts shaking his hand and won’t stop. “I’m shaking your hand too long.” He then turns to Scarlett Witch and says, “I know you, too” unable to take his eyes off Cap, “You’re great,” Lang says. “I know you know a lot of super people, so thinks for thanking of me! I mean, thanks for thinking of me!” End footage.
Doctor Strange Concept Art Reel Description:
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige also talked a little bit about director Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange, and he introduced a video message from star Benedict Cumberbatch teasing “girls, cars, explosions, and a bit of astral projecting into multiple dimensions.” The movie hasn’t even started shooting yet, so there was no footage to show, but the did show off a cool sizzle reel video featuring some epic-looking concept art from the movie.
Doctor Strange is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen Marvel do before. The different dimensions that Strange will travel to makes sure of that. Strange has been monitored by S.H.I.E.L.D., and we see him go through several different costume looks. Those include his traditional outfit, complete with his cape, and he even sports the gray hair at his temples.
We got so see visuals of the car crash and his journey as he searches for the Ancient One. There was a lot of crazy cool astral plane art with a very magical and cosmic vibe. The collection of art was packed with planets and colorful lights. We see a city in which cars are suspended in air. Some of the art shows the city looking twisted and distorted, and it seems to turn in on itself. The last shot of the test footage was actually a piece of CG animated footage of Strange delivering a badass blast of light.
Captain America: Civil War will be released in theaters on May 6th, 2016. Doctor Strange will follow on November 4th, 2016.