The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
 

Empire writer Malcolm Spellman has been tapped to write a limited series for Disney’s streaming service that would center around the Marvel superheroes Falcon and Winter Solider, according to Variety.

The news comes on the heels of recent reports that Disney and Marvel were prepping multiple limited series centered MCU characters who have never had their own standalone movies, a la Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. Loki and Scarlet Witch are also expected to be the subject of their own limited series, which are expected to be between six and eight episodes. That addressed one complaint that has plagued some of Marvel’s Netflix series, which typically offer 13-episode seasons, dragging out the story a few hours too long.

Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan would reprise their MCU characters, who had their breakout moments in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though Stan appeared as Bucky Barnes in the first Captain America movie. The duo most recently appeared together in Avengers: Infinity War.

Spellman becomes the first writer hired on a Marvel series in development at Disney’s streaming service. He’s represented by CAA and Industry Entertainment Partners.

More to come…

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Huh.

More Winter Soldier? Yeah, sure!

More Falcon? Pfft. Okay, whatever. :tlol: Anthony Mackie is a great actor, but the character is dullsville.

Can be interesting.

Actor Don Cheadle who plays War Machine/Jim Rhodes in the MCU movies recently told brobible.com in an interview that he will be making an appearance in the upcoming Disney+ Falcon and The Winter Soldier series which will star Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson (Falcon) and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier).

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Looks okay. Kind of bland. I guess Zemo will be neat?

I think this show is gonna be fun.

That's it, huh?

How's a geek supposed to start his hype engine with just that?

3 out of 5 meh's.

Care to elaborate?

I THINK he means, like... yeah it's cool action shots and funny bits and all, but it's not a ton to go on. Like not even real teasers on what we could sit here and speculate on.

Not everything can, or should be, Wandavision.

Yeah. There were a lot of little jigsaw pieces but none of them lend any hint of the overall picture.

Credit for not spoiling everything, I guess?

It looks kinda Agents of SHIELD-y.

Which makes sense and all, given the budget, but the only flavor of Marvel espionage I'm interested in seeing more of is the Metal Gear Solid-lite stuff from Winter Soldier. Hopefully the actual show leans more in that direction than basic, TV show action.

Omega Red will be in it.

Omega Red is a X-Men character, right?

Yeah, he's a big X-Men villain. I remember him being rumored for one of the Wolverine movies, but it never happened.

So it has begun!

I guess so. In like a week.

I enjoyed the first episode. Good Character post blip episode and the action at the start was great

Watching it now.

Surprised to see in it...even if just as a cameo.

Watching it now.

Surprised to see in it...even if just as a cameo.

Saw the first episode. Kind of a lots of twiddling thumbs but hey, it's the opener.

I was hoping for at least a glimpse of Zemo, but alas.

I find it hard to believe Falcon has no money when he worked with Tony Stark and all the other heroes.

They talk about it in the episode. And he's right... it'd be weird if Tony Stark was giving out paychecks to anyone.

We'll get to see more of him in that Armor Wars show.

Great start. Loving this new format for the MCU and how much closer I am finally getting to these characters.

What really irks me is not knowing whether we will see physical releases of these shows anytime soon, if at all.

I also groaned at Bucky saying, "I tried the online dating thing."

Seriously, was this an attempt to be "hip" with the young 20-25 year old demographic of today? Are we honestly led to believe someone who looks like Bucky cannot get a date? And why are they promoting online dating in a TV show?

I mean, it tracks that he wouldn't seriously be looking to, right? He was a mind-programmed zombie for many decades until like a year ago in-story (the 5 years doesn't count since he was one of the dusted).

Great first episode, already enjoying this much more than WandaVision! :lol:

It had the biggest Disney+ opening ever, beating anything of The Mandalorian and WandaVision.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/falcon-...disney-launch/

I mean, I guess that's fair. Falcon and the Winter Soldier S01E01 is probably "better" and meatier than either WandaVision S01E01 or either season premiere of Mandalorian, honestly.

I mean it's a traditional action series. Wandavision starts off as a black and white sit-com and people probably didn't know what to make of it if they didn't have an open mind.

There are a lot of factors at play if you want to compare the two MCU shows. For one, you could say WandaVision laid a lot of groundwork for this show, by slowly getting people on-board Disney+ throughout the series. Now, when Falcon & WS premiers, there are way more people with the service, ready to watch on day one.

These shows likely have even high viewships when you realize how many people are watching them on illegally streaming websites and don't have a D+ subscription. I always assume add another 10 million people on top of the official ratings since there's millions who just watch this uploaded anywhere.

Another decent episode. Seeing Carly Lumby as Isaiah Bradley was pretty neat, big fan of guy since his work on the Justice League animated series.

And now that Eli has also made his MCU debut, I definitely get the feeling they're slowly building up towards a Young Avengers team up.

I liked the second episode but it's mixed for me. A lot of the writing is exposition that sticks out like a sore thumb. I like these characters though and the fact that we're getting to know U.S. Agent.

I worry that if WandaVision ended up being a high concept, high potential series that didn't really pay off much beyond setting up a movie we won't even get for a while now (Doctor Strange 2) while jerking us around a bit expectation level wise ("Are we going to see big X-Men stuff? Other universes??")... this show might be more of the same. Only instead of ending up teasing a movie, this show will just provide a bigger teaser for "Secret Invasion" on Disney+ (which WandaVision did as well) which is going to end up being the new "Defenders" culmination, watch. I bet even Loki will show up.

I'm a fan of "Star-spangled Man With a Plan" from First Avenger, so hearing it referenced in this show made me smile wider than it ought to have.

I'm surprised Loki is on the Love and Thunder poster since he's supposed to be dead in the main MCU.

Way too much gay pandering for shippers in this ep for my liking, but otherwise a good ep. Also funny when the police arrived they arrested the white man (Bucky) instead of the black one. I bet there is some sort of social commentary here.

Absolutely it was. Eyeball rollingly.

As soon as the cop asks Falcon even the first time what he's doing... right away I was going, "Oh god... please tell me they're not going there right now. There is no need to go there right now. The show was doing so great until now..."