Each of the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has their own theme to it. Thor is fantastical, Iron Man is technological, Hulk is beastial, and Captain America is political. So it isn’t that surprising to hear that the Anthony and Joe Russo-directed Captain America sequel will be a political-actioner.

In an interview with Variety, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed that Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be a political thriller. He also responded to some of the criticisms of the superhero genre being a fad.

Some people are still talking about what they saw in Hall H at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, and of course, one of the biggest panels that is still being talked about is the Marvel Panel.

Though much of the focus was on Iron Man 3, there were some title and release announcements. Unlike Iron Man, Thor and Captain America won’t be getting the generic numerical sequel, instead the two will be titled Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The latter title pretty much confirms the presence of a villain, but more on that later. According to sources, actor Anthony Mackie is in talks to play Falcon in the next Captain America movie.

We’ve seen the Super Bowl TV spot for Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger, but now a full trailer has been debuted via Entertainment Tonight, and it’s pretty fantastic.

The movie stars Chris Evans as a small and very weak kid who wants to join the military to fight in World War II but gets rejected. But when an opportunity to be a test subject for a new program to create super soldiers is offered, he can’t resist, and soon he’s bigger, stronger, and fast than them all. He’s joined by a great cast featuring Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, Sebastian Stan, and Hugo Weaving.

You can see the awesome new trailer by heading below now. Captain America: The First Avenger hits theaters on July 22, 2011.

Marvel has released a new image from the forthcoming film Captain America: The First Avenger showing Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and his sidekick Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) walking against a crowd of soldiers on a U.S. Army base.

Whenever I hear the word “sidekick” mentioned within a superhero movie I immediately tense up and have horrible images of Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin flash through my mind. Fortunately, having seen the war-hardened expression on Stan’s face made me breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems director Joe Johnston has taken care to see that Bucky has none of the campy, cartoonish stigma we’ve come to expect from sidekicks.

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Marvel Studios has announced that Stanley Tucci has officially joined the cast of one of their two massive comic book titles arriving next summer, Captain America: The First Avenger. Tucci is reportedly playing Dr. Abraham Erskine, one of the German scientists involved in what the comics called “Project Rebirth,” which is what lead to the creation of the super soldiers that turned Steve Rogers into Captain America during World War II.

Tucci is of course one of the great character actor who’s always good in any and everything that he does, no matter what the movie is or how good or bad it is. Some of his notable performances have come in titles like The Pelican Brief, The Imposters, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Big Trouble, Road to Perdition, The Devil Wears Prada, and of course, his Oscar-nominated turn in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones.