The directors here are Joe and Anthony Russo, whose most notable previous works have been You, Me And Dupree, and several episodes of Community. Feige says; “We hired our directors on Cap because they loved our explanation that we really want to make a 70s political thriller masquerading as a big superhero movie.

“Just like with the first movie – we got Joe Johnston because we said, ‘We want to do a 40s World War Two movie masquerading as a big superhero movie.’ I love that we’re doing a sequel to a movie that’s a completely different genre than the first movie. I think that’s fun. And the comics do it all the time.”

Interestingly, Anthony Mackie, who plays The Falcon, tells it a little differently. He recently said that The Winter Soldier will be like Avengers 1.5, though it’s possible that he’s referring to the size of the cast. Picking up from where we left Cap in The Avengers, this will be the most S.H.I.E.L.D-centric of the solo Phase Two movies.

In addition to The Falcon, we’ll see the return of Nick Fury, (Samuel L Jackson) Black Widow, (Scarlett Johansson) and Agent Maria Hill, (Cobie Smulders) supporting Cap in his latest mission. The most surprising new addition to the cast has to be Robert Redford, appearing as Alexander Pierce. Throughout his career, Redford has typically swerved big studio pics of this kind, but here he is, playing a S.H.I.E.L.D higher-upper.

Even if it all seems a little too busy, we remain confident that this will be a good, character-led follow up to Captain America: The First Avenger. Look no further than the currently-playing Iron Man 3 for proof that Marvel will continue to put the lead characters’ stories in the foreground through these solo movies. This promises to be an action-packed telling of one of the most celebrated arcs from the Captain America comics.