Ed Brubaker Says CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 Is "The Best Marvel Movie"

Comic book writer Ed Brubaker, who created the Captain America: The Winter Soldier storyline recently did an interview with Paste Magazine in which he offers some very high praise for the upcoming sequel, calling it "the best Marvel movie." He also talks about the script, the tone of the film and its directors, Joe and Anthony Russo. This is what he said when he was asked how much involvement he had with the film... 

I got to go out to Marvel Studios a couple months ago and read one of the later drafts of the script. I went out to dinner with [directors Joe and Anthony Russo] and talked about the project and gave them feedback on what I liked or didn't like or what parts didn't work. I mean, the script I read was fucking fantastic. It was the best Marvel movie. It was really strange because [the script] feels like my comic while not really telling the same story as my comic. It's got moments here and there where I was like, ‘hey, I wrote that.' But mostly, it's not what people think it's going to be. But the tone of it was so close to what [artist] Steve [Epting] and I were doing on that comic in the first few years, where it feels like an espionage story almost more than a superhero story [and] there's tons of action in it. I can't wait to see what they do with it.

Really, it's just that the Russos are fans of my comics and wanted me to come see what they were doing. I got to see the production art and stuff, which looks amazing. And I knew the screenwriters, I met them at the last Captain America movie and we kept in touch. I live in L.A. now and work here so I've seen those guys a little bit. I'm going to get to go out to the set a couple of times during the filming. I requested if I could come out for one of [Robert] Redford's days because he's an honorary Brubaker and I wanted to meet him. But yeah, I think I'm going to get to go out sometime during the last week of April for a day and then I'll be there for part of the filming in May. I'll get to watch some stuff. But really it's just the Russos and Kevin [Feige] being cool and letting me come to see stuff that I created get filmed. It's pretty awesome. But I wouldn't say I'm involved or anything. I'm not a consultant or anything like [Brian Michael] Bendis was.

This is his story, so of course he's going to call it the best Marvel movie. At the same time, I'm a huge Captain America fan, and The Winter Soldier storyline is pretty badass, so yeah, there's a good possibility that it could end up being the best Marvel movie! What do you think about what Brubaker had to say?