Captain America: The Winter Soldier/Trivia

A list of trivia related to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.


 * Anna Kendrick, Felicity Jones, Imogen Poots, Teresa Palmer, Alison Brie, Emilia Clarke, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Brown Findlay were considered to play Sharon Carter. Jones would later be cast in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Brown Findlay previously appeared in Iron Man 3 as the film used footage of her from television drama, Downton Abbey. Olsen will portray the Scarlet Witch in the upcoming film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier marks the second appearance together of Scarlett Johansson and Robert Redford, who previously appeared together in The Horse Whisperer, which Redford directed.
 * Kevin Feige described the film as "a 1970s political thriller masquerading as a big superhero movie."
 * Principal photography began on April 1, 2013, under the working title Freezer Burn.
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier marks the fourth time Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson have worked together, both starring in The Perfect Score (2004), The Nanny Diaries (2007) and The Avengers (2012).
 * A deleted scene in The Avengers (2012), of Steve learning what happened to his commandos, and to Peggy Carter, ended up being cut out from that film, but is included in this film.
 * The scene where Captain America jumps out of a plane without bothering to use a parachute is a homage to a similar scene from the first issue of "The Ultimates" comic.
 * Anthony Mackie was unhappy with the modern take on his costume as Falcon. He wanted the red spandex look from the comics.