The first Marvel film of 2025, Captain America 4, had a complicated gestation period. Numerous changes to the characters and story were made during production, particularly to the Leader's look. Thanks to a makeup artist's Instagram post, we now know that a connection with Iron Man was also cut in the edit... And we wonder why.
This reference to Tony Stark cut in the edit
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On social media, makeup artist Tym Buacharem posted a series of behind-the-scenes shots from Captain America: Brave New World, and the third one features the logo of "Stark Industries," Tony Stark's famous company. However, as those of you who have seen the film know, the story contains no reference to Iron Man: this photo refers to a deleted scene, mentioned by a leak posted on Reddit and then deleted. According to our colleagues at Comicbook.com, the sequence in question saw Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Falcon (Danny Ramirez), and Ruth Bat-Seraph (Shira Haas) go to Stark Industries to find Samuel Sterns, aka the Leader, after a meeting with the mind-control master at Camp Echo One. The trio asked for help from Amadeus Cho, an engineer at Stark Industries, and the name of Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), the billionaire's CEO and widow, was mentioned.
Captain America 4: A scene wrongly cut?
Since his death in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, Tony Stark has been mentioned several times by the characters in the MCU. With the highly anticipated return of Robert Downey Jr. to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, scheduled for next year with Avengers: Doomsday, it is not impossible that an Iron Man variant will also appear in the screen. A return that makes the little nods to the superhero all the more coherent: the decision to remove him, as well as to change the villain that Giancarlo Esposito was supposed to play, leaves us perplexed...
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