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We wanted the audience to understand, yes, this is going to be a buddy two-hander, but first, let us introduce you to these people as individuals. I would like to say I would have also come to that conclusion had Kevin not come to it. If you bring them together too quickly, all of a sudden they exist as a duo and not as individuals.
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Kevin really wanted to position them with their own storylines, so that we understood, this is going to be these characters’ chance to emerge as fully realized human beings. There’s an urge in storytelling to cut to the action as quickly as possible, so why did you want to start with us not having those two characters together? The title of the show is “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” but Sam and Bucky spend the entire first episode apart. Sound familiar?Īs “FAWS” head writer Malcolm Spellman explains to Variety, all of this was very much by design - and became even more so after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the production.
#THE FLACON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SERIES#
And the premiere also makes clear that as the series continues, both Sam and Bucky will have to confront how the Blip put the entire world in turmoil, while a resistant group called the Flag-Smashers tries to bring back a world without nationalist borders. As viewers of the first episode can see, however, “FAWS” is in many ways just as connected to the world we live in now as “WandaVision.” For one, Sam has to deal with being a Black man who is handed the mantle of Captain America by (a very old) Steve Rogers, at a time when issues of race and representation are at the forefront of a fraught national conversation.