After making his debut in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Mackie has portrayed Sam Wilson in eight Marvel projects over the past decade. In many of them, Mackie's Wilson also goes by the superhero pseudonym Falcon, the *ahem* wingman of Chris Evans' Steve Rogers, aka the original Captain America.

Brave New World brings together iconic MCU characters and new faces as Sam Wilson navigates global challenges as the new Captain America.

The second film in the MCU has rarely factored into the universe as a whole, beyond William Hurt’s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross making recurring appearances in later films. That changes with Captain America: Brave New World, which will see Liv Tyler and Tim Blake Nelson reprise their roles as Betty Ross and Samuel Sterns/Leader, respectively.