McFeely: "We tend to stay on the sidelines when it comes to the comics. We wait and see what we’ll steal from in three or four years from now!"
Markus: "I think the movies can accommodate almost anything, if there’s a need. I think there is a much greater need to shake things up in the comics because that’s a narrative that’s been going on for 60 or 70 years, so you’re going to wind up having to do things to it. Ours has only been off the ground for five or so. So it’s not quite time to start changing things up yet. Plus I can’t figure out how he’s going to have the wings and the shield at the same time. Isn’t it going to get all crammed up on the wing? I don’t know… When those things happen in the comics you also have a tendency, perhaps cynically, to go “Yeah, but he’s going to be Steve Rogers in two months…” He’s going to wake up out of cryo-stasis or whatever it is and it’s going to be like “Oh, I need the shield back”.
Many purists get the idea that the movies should follow the comics to the tiniest detail, but that's kind of ludicrous and Markus gives a pretty good reason why. Well, except for that stuff about the shield and wings.
One of the reasons audiences really took to 'The Winter Soldier' was that it resembled a fast-paced political thriller, very Bourne-esque in execution, and the writers say you can probably expect to see the same thing in Captain America 3....
McFeely: "When we hit upon the Brubaker run of the comic book, we all said that, with certain exceptions, that’s the tone of Cap’s modern franchise. And you can imagine that with us back, with the Russos back, then if you like Winter Soldier you’ll hopefully like the third one, if we do it right!"
I'm of the mind we'll see the Winter Soldier take over as Captain America before we see Falcon, but Marvel has done a pretty good job of throwing curveballs at us. Things change all the time, and chances are we'll find out which direction Captain America 3 is headed when it gets a real title.
