Did that come from you, and if so, were you worried it might be a problem?

Is it too adult?

Was that something you were actively thinking about?

Yeah, that really came from the source material, I suppose.

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

Weve always thought that Cap doesnt change so much as the world changes around him.

He stands still and forces the world to change.

To Marvels credit, they know that, so theyre cool with a script which doesnt follow that template.

Oh, that was Kevin.

Hes working on it all the time, trying to push the ball forward.

Did having that to deliver that story beat feel like a big responsibility, then?

Where do you even start with that sort of storytelling edict?

Oh, you start small.

We know we wanted the Falcon, so whats the smartest way to bring the Falcon in?

We wanted to deal with it lightly, but we wanted to deal with it.

And thats how we got Sam in there.

Its that kind of thing.

Whos going to get the most out of Cap in terms of personality?

Well, Natasha, because her morality is flexible and his is not.

Things sort of come together that way.

You make the small choices and they add up to be big stuff.

That hes the new Captain America?

So do you see that as a potential endpoint for your version of the Falcon?

Can you imagine him taking over that role at some point in the future?

Its such early days for our Sam, I wouldnt want to speculate.

But its not quite as hand-in-glove as that.

I will say that I love [Anthony] Mackie.

If they wanted to go that way, he could do it.

And how involved are you in that?

Oh yeah, were heavily involved in that.

Although when you meet Hayley Atwell you go, Oh, shes got something.

Thats fascinating to me.

So we start shooting that soon.

We look through everything.

Its all available to us, and we cull as much as we can.

We certainly think Brubakers run is tonally like where our version of Cap would live.

So everythings available, but moving forward its probably going to feel a lot like that still.

[Laughs] Sorry, I have no comment.

Chris Markus, thank you very much.