Anthony Mackie has instructed ‘Outdoors the Wire’ could possibly be an enormous film franchise just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The 42-year-old actor – who performed Falcon within the ‘Avengers’ movies and can reprise the function in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Disney+ collection – admitted he desires his newest motion blockbuster to observe the same path by delving deeper into his android army officer character Leo.
He advised Forbes: “The entire thought was for this to be a franchise. He’s such a cool character, and it’s such an interesting world, particularly with it being within the not so distant future.
“You’ll be able to have many various spin-offs and concepts that come together with this with each lead characters.
“I equate Leo, my character, very a lot to the Winter Soldier in ‘Captain America’. Each time there’s a state of affairs, they spin him again as much as deal with the crime or the state of affairs.
“You must inform him of what’s occurred, what he’s missed, what’s occurring, and then you definately ship him out to save lots of the day.”
Mackie – who additionally has a producer credit score on ‘Outdoors the Wire’ – famous there’s loads of scope for varied spin-offs.
He added: “It might probably go into the far, far future, or it may possibly actually happen at any level alongside the timeline.
“right here have been so many incarnations of Leo. You’ll be able to return to his backstory and present the very first one, who he was and the way he was created to be a supersoldier of kinds.”
The star is delighted to be fronting his personal motion blockbuster after at all times desirous to be Wesley Snipes, however he does not undersand the stigma round a style which launched the careers of the likes of Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
He stated: “For those who have a look at Tommy Lee Jones, in the event you have a look at Harrison Ford, in the event you have a look at all these enormous film stars, these are the kind of motion pictures they made, that individuals grew up having fun with, and I’ve at all times wished to do one.
“As a child, and typically as an grownup, you don’t wish to suppose, and also you don’t wish to be slapped within the face with info. Typically you simply wish to sit back and luxuriate in a film for leisure.”
