Captain America: The Winter Soldier next to "Captain America: The First Avenger", "The Winter Soldier" is pale." Jake Coyle of the "Associated Press" said the film's biggest misstep was the handling of Stan's Winter Soldier, and that it was "getting difficult to tell the Marvel movies apart". "Captain America: Civil War" was released on May 6, 2016, and again is directed by the Russo brothers. Evans, Johansson, Stan, Mackie, VanCamp and Grillo reprise their roles from "The Winter Soldier" and they are joined by Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man, Paul Bettany as Vision, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Don
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson. In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon join forces to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier. A major influence in "The Winter Soldier" was conspiracy fiction from the 1970s such as "Three Days of the Condor", with the script also drawing from the Winter Soldier story arc written by Ed Brubaker. The script was written in 2011, with the Russo brothers entering negotiations to direct in June 2012 and casting beginning the following month. Principal photography commenced in April 2013