Today Marvel confirmed the release date for the third Captain America film as May 6th, 2016, which you may recognize as the same date already set for DC’s upcoming Batman vs. Superman. Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely who worked on both previous Captain America films are set to return, along with the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Anthony and Joe Russo.
Before that of course, Chris Evans will return as the first Avenger in Avengers: Age of Ultron, almost exactly a year earlier, on May 1st, 2015.
Via Marvel
[…] Maybe the real answer comes down to your local theater. It’s funny to think that DC and Marvel are sitting in what seem to be the exact opposite positions in their respective arenas. While Marvel heroes of any shape and size bring home the bacon on an annual basis to audience’s delight, DC can’t seem to break a billion without Batman in the name, not to mention a continually polarized fan base. On the other side of things, it’s been close to a decade since Marvel’s released their own Ultimate Destruction while The Dark Knight is the envy of the gaming world. It may come as no coincidence that Arkham was born only a year after Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy began printing money for the studio. Let’s remind ourselves that it’s Warner that also happens to own the rights to Batman himself. Warner’s clearly taken fashioning its own mascot and if Nolan’s Batman ride was going to end, games were they’re way to keep pushing the gas, maybe more than ever now that Batman takes up the other half of their upcoming prologue to a Justice League bonanza. […]
[…] enormous news in a cinema dominated by the Marvel brand. As “Superman Vs. Batman” is slated to do battle it out against “Captain America 3″ in summer of ’16, Warner has their work more than cut out for them […]