Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFollowing a hit flagship voyage with “WandaVision,” Marvel Studios will let fans take a weeklong breather before releasing its next Disney Plus original series “The Falcon and the Winter Solider” on March 18.Ahead of the debut, Marvel’s chief creative officer Kevin Feige connected with Variety to discuss our reigning cover star Anthony Mackie, who is stepping up to leading man status in a way his Marvel character Sam Wilson (the titular Falcon) has never done before.Feige teased the meaningful examination of what it will mean for a modern Black man to take up the shield of Captain America (which Mackie was handed in “Avengers: Endgame”), the expanding diversity of Marvel’s stories and the creatives behind.
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