Captain America: The Winter Soldier from "Captain America: The First Avenger", with Captain America riding the company's Softail Breakout motorcycle in the film. In October 2013, Marvel released the first trailer for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier". "The Hollywood Reporter" said, "it looks like it'll live up to the 'political thriller' that's been promised for months now." "The Los Angeles Times" said, "[the] trailer runs 2½ minutes and teases plenty of action, conspiracy and clever banter between Captain America and his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues, with a smattering of the previously released Comic-Con International and D23 footage." "The Los Angeles Times" also noted that the day before
Captain America: The First Avenger the perfect world was small-town United States. Sixty years go by, and who are we today? Are we better?" He cited the "Back to the Future" trilogy as an influence, and claimed he had "someone in mind to be the star, and definitely someone in mind to be the director". In February 2006, Arad hoped to have a summer 2008 theatrical release date. Jon Favreau approached Arad to direct the film as a comedy, but he chose to make "Iron Man" instead. In April 2006, David Self was hired to write the script. He explained that Captain America was his