Captain America: The Winter Soldier isn’t set to arrive for another couple of months yet, but it seems that Marvel Studios are suitably impressed with the work of directors Anthony and Joe Russo on the Chris Evans-headlined superhero sequel, with Variety reporting that the brothers are set to return to the director’s chair for Cap’s third solo outing.
According to the site, Captain America 3 is yet to be officially given the green light, but the Russos have apparently put together an outline for the film’s story arc and will begin negotiations with Marvel once the film opens this Spring. Assuming The Winter Soldier delivers box office-wise (which it presumably will), then you’d have to expect the third movie to feature alongside Ant-Man as part of Marvel’s Phase Three, especially considering Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man will be absent from the next wave of movies between The Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Avengers 3.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is set for release on March 26th in the UK and April 4th in North America, with Evans joined by MCU veterans Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill), Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter), Toby Jones (Arnim Zola) and Maximiliano Hernandez (Agent Jasper Sitwell) and franchise newcomers Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) as Sam Wilson / Falcon, Emily VanCamp (Revenge) as Sharon Carter / Agent 13, Frank Grillo (Zero Dark Thirty) as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones, George St-Pierre (Death Warrior) as Georges Batroc / Batroc the Leaper, and Robert Redford (All Is Lost) as Alexander Pierce.
