In addition to Eposito's Sidewinder, one character that appeared was Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Copperhead, who battles Sam at the start of the film. While both characters lacked the same kind of bite as their comic book counterparts, Onah realized during the project's development that this was the safer approach.

This story discusses multiple plot developments in "Captain America: Brave New World," currently playing in theaters. When director Julius Onah called Variety on Feb. 13, he was in New York, in transit between promotional events for his Marvel Studios film "Captain America: Brave New World.

Marvel Studios seems to be back in the relative pink as of late, thanks to its first release of this year, Captain America: Brave New World. Making its mark on the 2025 movie schedule with a pretty solid debut, it feels like a positive end to the prolonged and supposedly beleaguered production.

Brave New World underwent a variety of changes and tweaks, something a number of big-budget movies have gone through over the years. In addition to a title change, production was paused on the film due to the 2023 actors’ and writers’ strikes,

Brave New World, and in the “Special Thanks” credits, there was a shoutout to Octavia Spencer. Moviegoers had to watch all the credits to see the end-credit scene of the Anthony Mackie-starring film.

Captain America 4 director Julius Onah opens up about what the Serpent Society was originally going to look like in the new MCU movie.

Brave New World' director Julius Onah tells PEOPLE that he gave Octavia Spencer — whom he worked with on 2019's 'Luce' — a special thanks in the new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie's end credits. "Octavia's the greatest,

Julius Onah discusses the look of the MCU villain: "You want to make sure that even with these heightened characters, it fits into the world of the film."

Captain America 4 director Julius Onah opened up about making Red Hulk a nonverbal villain, as well as how star Harrison Ford impacted that choice.