EXCLUSIVE: With plenty of time until its Feb. 14, 2025 theatrical release, Marvel Studios‘ Captain America: Brave New World has hired Matthew Orton to pen additional scenes and material.
Orton will work on material that will be shot in additional photography, which will take place in spring-summer of 2024, we understand.
Orton previously worked as a consulting producer for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Moon Knight.
Captain America: Brave New World follows Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson picking up Captain America’s shield post Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers. Julius Onah directs off of earlier drafts by Dalan Musson and Malcolm Spellman. Liv Tyler, Harrison Ford, Shira Haas, Tim Blake Nelson, Rosa Salazar, Danny Ramirez, and Carl Lumbly star.
Reshoots are a part of every Marvel movie and are always planned as part of the studio’s quality control production process. Reshoot days can vary from as little as three days to more than two weeks.
The Captain America franchise fired off in 2011 with Captain America: The First Avenger, and continued with 2014’s Captain America: Winter Soldier, and 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. Those three movies have amassed more than $2.23 billion at the global box office.
Mackie’s Sam Wilson was introduced in Winter Soldier and went on to star in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, Civil War, 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War and 2019’s Avengers: Endgame as well the hit Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier which was nominated for five Primetime Emmys.
Post Actors Strike, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool 3 recently returned to production.
Marvel Studios has delivered $30 billion in global box office across 33 titles since 2007.
Orton is repped by WME, Grandview and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.