Captain America 3 Plot, Rumors, News: Cap Gets Ex-Best Friend Bucky (aka The Winter Soldier) Back, Bucky could be the next Captain America?

By Kara Michelle Aug 29, 2014 09:44 PM EDT

Captain America 3 Plot, Rumors, News: Cap Gets Ex-Best Friend Bucky (aka The Winter Soldier) Back, Bucky could be the next Captain America?

Captain America 3, which will show in theaters on May 6, 2016, will tie up the loose ends left behind in Captain America: Winter Soldier. In that second Cap movie, the two titular characters were seen going separate ways, but with the Winter Soldier seemingly starting to become aware that he was once Cap's best friend Bucky Barnes.

When he talked with Movies.Com, Anthony Russo who will be co-directing the film with his brother Joe, revealed as much. He said: "The relationship between Cap and the Winter Soldier was never resolved at the end of the last movie. Thinking about where that relationship can go is a piece of the puzzle for us for sure. That character is a wonderfully, beautifully tragic figure in the sense of is he the world's most feared assassin or is he the world's longest serving POW. Is he innocent by reason of insanity or the equivalent of it because he's been mind controlled or is he irredeemable? Is he ever going to be acceptable to Cap again as the friend that he used to be before he was the Winter Soldier? These are very philosophical, emotional questions that pique our interest and definitely form one layer of the next movie."

Aside from the Winter Soldier, there are rumors that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow may return or that Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye may have a part in the Captain America 3 film. However, the Russo brothers as well as screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely would rather keep fans waiting in suspense for now. When asked who will be back, Joe Russo in an interview with ComicBook teased, "Certainly Captain America will be back. The expectation would be that Bucky will be back and there's certain characters in the Marvel Universe that Cap has a strong connection to but we've also got some tricks up our sleeve for this one and we're hard at work. That's a very crowded summer and there's high expectations so we're all hard at work trying to exceed those expectations and really carve out a big, splashy idea for Cap 3."