Chris Evans Actually Broke The News To Anthony Mackie That He Would Be The Next Captain America

Here's an awesome life-imitates-art story from the press tour for 'Captain America: Brave New World' - Chris Evans was actually the one to inform Anthony Mackie that Steve Rogers would be passing the shield off to Sam Wilson at the end of 'Avengers: Endgame', making him the new Captain America in the MCU.

Mackie says it happened at Evans' house in Atlanta one night before shooting, when Evans asked him if he had read the latest 'Endgame' script. He said he hadn't, and when Evans insisted he come down to his man-cave to check out the final ten pages immediately, Mackie assumed that his character had been killed off. He thought Evans just wanted to see his reaction to reading that like a buddy who gets a kick out of watching you get rejected at a bar or something. When he got to the moment in the screenplay where Rogers hands him the shield, though, and Evans confirmed what that meant - they "jumped around in circles" like little kids celebrating together.

Say what you will about how Sam Wilson (and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole) has been handled post-'Endgame', but that moment in the movie was an awesome passing of the torch and the fact that it actually happened like that in real life is incredible to me. Plus, Mackie has always come off as such a likable dude - whether it's celebrating the Golden Globes win of his pal Sebastian Stan recently, taunting Tom Holland at Comic Cons and press events over the years, or even chopping it up on KFC Radio....

I hope 'Captain America: Brave New World' is awesome - for him especially. How could you not root for Papa Doc? 

Marvel could really use a smash hit to open up 2025 and they'll definitely need Sam Wilson's Cap to hit with audiences before he steps up into what I'm assuming is a major role in the next two 'Avengers' movies. I know there's been tons of test screenings and reshoots that have everybody panicked right now, but as I blogged yesterday, not all reshoots mean trouble....

I honestly like what I've seen from the trailers so far, with 'Brave New World' obviously trying to evoke the same espionage-feel 'The Winter Soldier' did….

We've got Harrison Ford playing the President of the United States (who is also a Red Hulk) again with Isiah Bradley trying to assassinate him (possibly under mind control), Giancarlo Esposito making his MCU debut, Tim Blake Nelson returning to the MCU to play a classic Marvel character in The Leader, that big ass Celestial in the ocean will finally be addressed….

….I mean, what could possibly go wrong? That all sounds pretty sick to me! Surely it's not too much to cram into one movie with a runtime under two hours! I'm not in denial/praying about this movie as a massive Captain America fan!

P.S. If it does all go wrong and this disappoints us in the same way that 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' did, my Valentine's Day date with Clem will be RUINED! Listen to the latest episode of My Mom's Basement below….