CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Promo Art Offers a First Look at The Leader
A new piece of promo art has surfaced for Captain America: Brave New World, and it gives us a first look at Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Sterns as The Leader.
As you’ll see, the character’s got his giant forehead, but his wardrobe really isn’t all that flashy, but the flashy suit may come at some point.
At the end of 2008's The Incredible Hulk, Sterns is exposed to Gamma-irradiated blood which dripped into a wound on his head, causing his head to mutate.
When previously talking about the The Leader, Nelson teased that he is going to have big role in the story. He said:" You're gonna see me in a big way. What they've come up with is great."
Director Julius Onah also talked about The Leader being the main villain of the movie and said this villain is was drew him to the film project:
"Let's just say one of the things that really drew me to this project is The Leader is a man who operates from intellect, and so it's great to have an adversary who is working with this incredible intellect to really, you know, put Sam through the wringer in this story.
“And again, as a paranoid thriller, is this grounded adventure where I think that everything that happens in this film feels so real and intense, because of who this adversary is.
“So, back to that other question of yours, what he's going to have to go through in this film is because he's got an adversary who is so terrifyingly intelligent."
The filmmaker went on to say: "There's a lot we're going to bring to the table. And this is a new set of challenges and a new set of adversaries. I love classic paranoid thrillers and that's a big part of the inspiration of this film.
“We want to find an action that is grounded and tactile and give him new things to do that we haven't seen in those other films, and I don't want to spoil too much, but let's just say we are planning some really, really exciting things.”
Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) officially took on the mantle of Captain America in the finale of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. In the film, “After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident.
“He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.”
Captain America: Brave New World opens in U.S. theaters on February 14, 2025.
