Frank Grillo on ‘Civil War’ set as Crossbones (Photo: AKM-GSI)As Marvel and Disney have teased relentlessly,
Captain America: Civil War finds the Avengers divided, with Captain America and Iron Man
leading rival factions of heroes in a dispute over federal regulation of superpowers.But that doesn’t mean there aren’t real bad guys amping up the conflict. And today, we got our first
official look at one of the piece’s chief new antagonists via
Empire magazine: Crossbones, played by Frank Grillo.
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you can’t tell by the hockey mask and body armor, you’ve seen this guy
before. He’s Brock Rumlow, one of the rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives on
the take for H.Y.D.R.A. in
Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
He’s the guy who leads the attack on Cap (Chris Evans) in the elevator.
At the end of that film, Rumlow suffered severe burns in the
helicarrier crash; hencethe facial cover-up.
(In
case you’re wondering what he looks like under the mask, we got a good
view via a new Funko figure. It’s the kind of a face only a mother — or a
Deadpool — could love.)
While
his movie backstory differs from the comics (where he’s a former gang
member who becomes a henchman for Red Skull), Crossbones ultimately
serves a pivotal role in Marvel’s Civil War storyline. He’s the
one responsible for the assassination of Captain America. We’ll have to
wait until the film comes out on May 6 to see how closely the cinematic
version tracks to the comics.
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