What’s the first step in the process of translating a comic book story to the big screen? And how faithful do you remain to the original stories?
All of our movies start with a pile of comics and a blank sheet of paper. In this case, the comics were Brubaker’s The Winter Soldier run because it was so well done. The tone of that comic was of a conspiracy thriller and we wanted this tone for the movie. Plus, the main antagonist, the Winter Soldier, is revealed to have a very deep connection with Captain America. We love that. Whenever you can find a villain who has such a personal connection to your hero, you run at the chance to use it. We changed some things because the story has to take place in our cinematic universe, but mainly we wanted to keep to what the comic had established.