A new trailer for Captain America: Brave New World has been released. The trailer features a ton of new footage, including some revelations about how important adamantium is set to be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The world is on the brink of war in Captain America: Brave New World, with several countries fighting for control of adamantium. The trailer reveals that many believe whoever holds the most versatile metal — sorry, vibranium, but you’re now #2 — in the MCU will have power over the rest of the globe. With several threats after adamantium, Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson/Captain America is committed to making sure it doesn’t end up in the wrong hands. Check out the new trailer below.

What Is Adamantium?

Introduced in The Avengers #66 in 1969 by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Syd Shores, adamantium is an indestructible metal alloy that fans will recognize from the X-Men movies as the substance bonded to Wolverine’s skeleton and claws. Captain America: Brave New World will mark the first mainline MCU movie to feature adamantium, excluding Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Wolverine variants who already had adamantium-coated skeletons and claws. The upcoming Captain America movie will seemingly reveal that adamantium can be mined from the Celestial Tiamut, who was turned into marble by Sersi in the 2021 movie Eternals.

Despite being a prominent part of Wolverine’s history, the beloved mutant is not expected to appear in Brave New World. Instead, the Captain America sequel will serve as a follow-up to the 2021 Disney+ limited series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as well as the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk. In the upcoming movie, which Mackie recently described as “old-school Marvel,” Captain America finds himself at the center of an international incident following the election of Thaddeus Ross as the President of the United States and must work to stop the true masterminds behind it.

Captain America: Brave New World is currently tracking towards a domestic box office debut of more than $95 million. While these current projections fall under the opening weekend of the last Captain America movie, the Avengers-filled Civil War ($179 million), it is on par with the opening for the non-cameo-heavy Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million). The runtime for Brave New World was recently revealed to be 1 hour and 58 minutes, making it the shortest installment yet in the Captain America series.

Who Stars in Brave New World?

Besides Mackie, Brave New World stars Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus Ross, Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres/Falcon, Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley, Shira Haas as Ruth Bat-Seraph, Giancarlo Esposito as Seth Voelker/Sidewinder, Tim Blake Nelson as The Leader, and Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, among others.

Directed by Julius Onah from a screenplay he co-wrote with Malcolm Spellman and Dalan Musson, Captain America: Brave New World opens in theaters on Feb. 14, as part of Phase 5 of the MCU.

Source: Marvel