Captain America: The Winter Soldier set photos featuring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson

While Iron Man 3 rakes in the cash at the international box-office, Marvel Studios is hard at work with its first offering of 2014 as cameras roll on the Super Soldier solo sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier in Los Angeles, and thanks to Faded Youth we have a selection of set photos showing Chris Evans' Steve Rogers and Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow confronting Agent Jasper Sitwell, played by Maximiliano Hernández. Looks like all is not well at S.H.I.E.L.D....










Meanwhile, Marvel newcomer Anthony Mackie took a moment to discuss his role as Sam Wilson/ Falcon in the Captain America sequel during a promotional interview with Moviefone for Michael Bay's Pain & Gain, during which he described The Winter Soldier as The Avengers 1.5...

"First, I’ll say that being a part of it is great. I think that Marvel has it down to a science and they’ve been very deliberate about what they want and what they don’t want out in the world. And they’re very focused on timelines as far as releases and stuff. This movie, Captain America, has kind of become Avengers 1.5; if you look at the cast they’ve put together, if you look at the number of characters that are in this movie. I mean, it’s a huge number of superheroes and characters. The basic idea is that you have Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon that get together to take down the Winter Soldier."

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and sees Marvel veterans Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill), Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) and Toby Jones (Arnim Zola) joined by franchise newcomers  Emily VanCamp (Revenge) as Sharon Carter / Agent 13, Frank Grillo (Zero Dark Thirty) as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones, George St-Pierre (Death Warrior) as Georges Batroc / Batroc the Leaper and Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) as S.H.I.E.L.D. chief Alexander Pierce. The film is due for release on April 4th, 2014.