Captain America: Civil War

The film was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. These directors are notorious for their
work on marvel films and suited perfectly for this film.

With many people fearing the actions of super heroes, the government decides to push for
the Hero Registration Act, a law that limits a hero's actions. This results in a division in The
Avengers. Iron Man stands with this Act, claiming that their actions must be kept in check
otherwise cities will continue to be destroyed, but Captain America feels that saving the
world is daring enough and that they cannot rely on the government to protect the world.
This escalates into an all-out war between Team Iron Man (Iron Man, Black Panther, Vision,
Black Widow, War Machine, and Spider-Man) and Team Captain America (Captain America,
Bucky Barnes, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant Man) while a new villain emerges.

Cast: By October 2014, Robert Downey Jr. had entered final negotiations to reprise his role
as Tony Stark / Iron Man in the film. Downey was added in order for the film to adapt the
2006–07 "Civil War" comic book storyline written by Mark Millar, which pitted Iron Man
against Captain America. At the end of the month, it was confirmed that Sebastian Stan
would return as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier. A few days later, Marvel revealed that the
film would be titled Captain America: Civil War, confirming Downey's appearance and
announcing that Chadwick Boseman would appear in the film as Black Panther ahead of his
own solo film. Jeremy Renner was revealed to be reprising his role as Clint Barton /
Hawkeye. Brühl would be playing Helmut Zemo. Additionally, Elizabeth Olsen revealed she
would reprise her role in the film as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch. Scarlett Johansson
would return in the film as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow. Anthony Mackie and Frank
Grillo were confirmed to return as Sam Wilson / Falcon and Brock Rumlow / Crossbones.
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios reached a licensing deal for the use of Spider-Man in an
MCU film, and reports indicated that the character would indeed appear in Civil War played
by actor Tom Holland.

Location: Mackie revealed that, in addition to Atlanta, filming locations would include
Puerto Rico and Berlin. Principal photography began on April 27, 2015, in Fayette County,
Georgia, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios, under the working title Sputnik. Other filming
locations in the Atlanta metropolitan area included the Buckhead district of Atlanta, the
Peachtree Christian Church in Midtown Atlanta; Downtown Atlanta, including an area near
Philips Arena known as The Gulch, which served as the market in Lagos; Norcross, Georgia;
Porsche's headquarters in Atlanta at Aerotropolis Atlanta, which served as the Avengers'
headquarters in the film; and the Atlanta Civic Center, which served as the IFID (Institute for
Infectious Diseases) laboratory in Lagos; the latter's interiors doubled as MIT, and a third
part was used for a Berlin location.

Budget: the overall budget for the creation of civil war was estimated at around
$250,000million. Captain America: Civil War grossed $408.1 million in the U.S. and Canada
and $745.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.153 billion. By May 10,
2016, the film had grossed $737.8 million, surpassing the entire theatrical gross of its
predecessor, Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714.4 million). It became the highest-
grossing film of 2016, the fourth-highest-grossing superhero film of all time, and the third-
highest-grossing film in the U.S. and Canada of 2016, behind Rogue One and Finding Dory.
Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $193.4 million, when factoring
together "production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs, with box office
grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV," placing it eighth on their list of
2016's "Most Valuable Blockbusters".

Feige also confirmed that the film would be the first in the MCU's Phase Three slate of films.
Anthony Russo stated that adapting the "Civil War" storyline was not always the intended
storyline and direction for the film when the brothers initially signed on to return as
directors. Markus expanded on this, saying the original concept for a third Captain America
film "never got to draft", with Feige at some point telling the writing team to begin adapting
"Civil War" around their original ideas. McFeely also added that, despite the shift in
direction for the film, "The central theme, even the way Zemo is operating, are from that
[early] iteration." The Russos revealed that, had negotiations with Downey to appear in the
film failed, they would have used the Madbomb storyline from the Captain America comics,
which was eventually used as a plot point in the first season of the Agent Carter TV series.
The premise for the film would have centered on Zemo detonating the Madbomb, which
would "turn hordes of people into berserkers" to present a physical threat to Captain
America, while still pitting heroes against each other, as some would be zombified due to
the Madbomb, to satisfy an "emotional component" for the film.

McFeely said that the idea of basing a film on "Civil War" had "been on and off the table for
a while" at Marvel Studios, explaining, "It’s a challenge to do it and make sure that all the
characters that we've established, and everyone's established in the MCU are serviced and
sound correct. Because there's a difference between the characters in "Civil War", which
was written in 2006, 2007. The MCU doesn't exist [when it was written]. There isn't a Robert
Downey, Jr. or Chris Evans who has helped create the character[s] so we need to make sure
that that template gets adjusted". Joe Russo added that the "essence" of "Civil War" was
used, such as the concept of registration, the notion that heroes need to be either
monitored or controlled because their power can be scary" being applicable. Anthony Russo
expanded, "in a lot of ways [superhero registration] can be a political issue, and we didn't
want the conflict of the movie to solely exist on that level. We wanted to figure out very
personal reasons why everyone's relationship to this idea of registration is going to become
complicated. That's what the relationship between Steve and Bucky allowed us to do, to get
very personal in terms of why people would lean one way or the other." Executive producer
Nate Moore added that "it felt like it was kind of the right time" to adapt "Civil War" given
The Avengers, plus many of the Phase Two films (Thor: The Dark World, The Winter Soldier,
and Avengers: Age of Ultron), all dealt with "world-ending experiences. We felt like we had
to tell the next step in that story, which is ... what is the world's reaction?”

Following the November 2014 hacking of Sony Pictures' computers, emails between Sony
Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal and President Doug Belgrad were released
stating that Marvel wanted to include Spider-Man (whose film rights are licensed to Sony) in
the film, but talks between the studios concerning this were believed to have broken down.
However, in February 2015, The Russos stated they were lobbying for months to include the
character in the film. In January 2015 while the Russo brothers confirmed that Editor Jeffrey
Ford, who worked on The Winter Soldier, also signed on for Civil War. In March 2015, the
next month, it was revealed that the film would be converted to 3D in post-production, and
that

Storyboards by, Tony Liberatore