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Did Captain America: Brave New World Bomb or Not?
It’s complicated. The movie is staving off superhero fatigue. But it’s also a reason for The Fantastic Four to worry.
Mackie picks up the star-spangled shield as the first Black Captain America at a decidedly transitional moment: when the Trump administration is purging diversity initiatives from government institutions en masse and Marvel’s parent company Disney has been publicly scaling back its own DEI efforts, including eliminating a transgender character from the Pixar series Win or Lose and removing content warnings that accompany old movies containing racial stereotypes. Inspired by the 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, Brave New World pushes genre conventions within the MCU by incorporating plot points such as a governmental-brainwashing scheme, black-site prisons, shadow mercenaries, and a ballistic showdown between sovereign nations. (For perspective, the much-reviled Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dropped 70 percent after its $106 million opening and squeaked out a meager $88,000 profit after production and marketing expenses to rank in the bottom percentile of Marvel films earnings-wise.)
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