The news that Julius Onah had signed on to direct Anthony Mackie's first full movie in the title role was broken yesterday.
The ascension to the role of Captain America, set up in Captain America: Civil War, and then played with, explored, and ultimately solidified in Disney+'s Falcon And The Winter Soldier, is a delicate thing for the MCU.
Chris Evans was moved to remind doubters that Sam Wilson is Captain America because of his resemblance to the character.
Evans chimed in to a thread from The Hollywood Reporter, which floated a lot of odd language in its coverage of Onah's hiring, and which openly questioned whether Evans would return to the franchise. We just had a whole damn TV show about the question of who is entitled to carry the shield.
Evans didn't like it. He said that Sam Wilson is Captain America. He was challenged by a bunch of commenters who said he was the real Cap. It seems very unlikely that Evans is lying when he says he is happy to let him have the spotlight and let him.
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