Anthony Mackie signs on for Captain America 4 with THIS director, find out

The fourth Captain America film, starring Anthony Mackie and continuing the story from the 2021 Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, will be directed by Julius Onah, who also directed Luce and The Cloverfield Paradox.

Variety reports that series creator and head writer Malcolm Spellman and staff writer Dalan Musson are collaborating on the screenplay. After 2019's Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson, played by Sam Mackie, finds it difficult to accept the mantle of Captain America that Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) placed upon him. However, Sam finally accepts the title and the cultural importance that comes with it.

The movie doesn't yet have an official title or release date, but Marvel Studios is likely to announce both at San Diego Comic-Con later this month. Since the pandemic postponed SDCC in 2020 and 2021, this will be the studio's first appearance there since 2019. Also unknown is whether Mackie will collaborate with any of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier cast members, including Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes (also known as the Winter Soldier), Wyatt Russell's John Walker (also known as the US Agent), Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter (also known as the Power Broker), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.

Onah, who was born in Nigeria, enrolled in NYU's graduate film school, and Spike Lee worked as an executive producer on his thesis film, The Girl Is in Trouble (2015). The sci-fi space thriller that J.J. Abrams later hired him to direct eventually became the 2018 Netflix movie The Cloverfield Paradox. 

The following year, Tim Roth and Naomi Watts' independent movie Luce, directed by Onah, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival to roaring acclaim for its examination of the challenges a white couple and their adopted Black child, Luce, face (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). Both the starring role played by Harrison in the film and the directing by Onah were nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.