Yesterday, we had word from Smulders that Maria Hill is very much apart of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, despite being absent from the film's first trailer. In a new interview, Smulders adds, "It's another installment of an amazing Marvel film. It's exciting for me because I get to suit up again but it takes place right after The Avengers, "The Battle of New York" has just happened. It's really about [working within] the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization, which my character Maria Hill is a big part of. It's showing the inner workings of S.H.I.E.L.D. and how it's very flawed at the moment."
Despite being released after Iron Man 3, it looks as if the events in Captain America: The Winter Soldier will occur beforehand. If you recall, Iron Man 3 picks up 6 months after "The Battle of New York" but according to Smulders, Captain America: The Winter Soldier starts immediately after that climactic showdown in the Big Apple. Perhaps the fallout from The Winter Soldier leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. in such disarray that they're unable to come to Tony's (Robert Downey Jr.) aid in Iron Man 3? We also know Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. occurs after Iron Man 3 and that an upcoming episode deals directly with the fallout from Thor: The Dark World.
UPDATE: Here's more from Smulders, courtesy of
Zap2It."I think we just haven't seen much of [Maria Hill]. I think that's why I was so excited to do 'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD' because I was like oh my gosh I get to do like full talking walking scenes, this is so exciting! In these big Marvel movies, there's so many more important people than me in this film that I even I want to see more than I want to see myself on screen. I think it was just fun to get a moment to sort of talk in character, especially to talk to Coulson. I think [Captain America: The Winter Soldier's] a little bit different. I think, because it is about SHIELD, they're showcasing more of SHIELD, but there's a lot of stuff that's going down with it. [Maria Hill] will say words.
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| Captain America: The Winter Soldier” picks up where “Marvel’s The Avengers” left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C. Starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Georges St-Pierre, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp and Maximiliano Hernández with Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Redford, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is directed by the team of Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941. Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige is producing the film. Executive producers on the project include Alan Fine, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee. The creative production team on the film includes director of photography Trent Opaloch, production designer Peter Wenham, editors Jeffrey Ford, A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. and three time Oscar®-nominated costume designer Judianna Makovsky. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is set for release on April 4, 2014. |