50 Fun Facts About Captain America: the Winter Soldier

Who directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier?

Kevin Feige sought them out after their genre-spoofing episodes of a network sitcom.

Where does Steve Rogers first meet Sam Wilson?

'On your left' becomes the running joke; Sam is a VA counsellor and former pararescueman.

Who leads the pirates holding the S.H.I.E.L.D. ship hostage in the opening mission?

A real UFC champion plays the savate-fighting mercenary.

What is Project Insight?

Fury asks Pierce to delay it after Romanoff's stolen data proves undecryptable.

What is the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in the film?

It is destroyed when the Helicarriers crash into it at the climax.

What does the S.H.I.E.L.D. director hand Steve before apparently dying?

His last instruction is 'trust no one'.

Whose preserved consciousness lives in the supercomputer in the New Jersey bunker?

Toby Jones returns from The First Avenger; Zola explains how Hydra secretly rebuilt itself inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

Which organisation is revealed to have grown secretly inside S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades?

Zola says it convinced the world to trade freedom for security.

Who is Hydra's leader within S.H.I.E.L.D.?

The casting was a nod to the actor's 1970s conspiracy thrillers.

Who plays the senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official who turns out to be Hydra's man on the World Security Council?

The Russos likened it to Henry Fonda playing a villain in Once Upon a Time in the West.

What has Zola developed that lets Hydra identify future threats?

The Helicarriers' satellite-guided guns would then wipe those targets out.

Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is captured and revealed as a Hydra mole before the Winter Soldier kills him?

Maximiliano Hernandez had played him in Thor and The Avengers.

Who is the Winter Soldier revealed to be?

Sebastian Stan only learned the sequel's title from a friend at Comic-Con, despite his nine-picture deal.

How has Bucky survived and served Hydra for seventy years?

Zola's experiments on him during the war are what let him survive the fall.

What is Fury's plan to stop the Helicarriers?

Once the third chip is in, Maria Hill makes the three ships destroy each other.

Disguised as whom does Natasha disarm Pierce during the Insight launch?

She then leaks S.H.I.E.L.D.'s entire classified database to expose Hydra.

Into which river does Steve fall from the crashing Helicarrier?

Bucky pulls him out and disappears.

Who fires the shot that kills Hydra's leader inside S.H.I.E.L.D.?

It comes after Fury forces him to unlock the database.

Which two enhanced test subjects appear in Baron von Strucker's lab in the mid-credits scene?

Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson appear uncredited, alongside Loki's scepter, setting up Age of Ultron.

Where does Bucky go in the post-credits scene?

Gary Sinise narrates the exhibit, and Stan Lee is the security guard there.

Which comics writer's Winter Soldier storyline was the film adapted from?

He cameos as a scientist working on the Winter Soldier; the writers took six months to convince themselves they could adapt it.

Which 1975 thriller was the main model for the script's structure?

The Parallax View and Marathon Man were influences too; Redford, star of Condor, was cast partly as an homage.

Which sitcom's genre-parody episodes put the Russo brothers on Kevin Feige's radar?

One paintball episode even spoofed Feige's love of Star Wars; Community writer Chris McKenna added jokes to the script.

Under what working title was the film shot?

Filming began at Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles on April 1, 2013.

Which Ohio city doubled for Washington, D.C. for much of the shoot?

Its West Shoreway, Federal Reserve Bank and Cleveland Arcade all appear; it had also hosted The Avengers.

On which real vessel were the Lemurian Star scenes filmed?

The ship was docked in California, not the Indian Ocean.

Who composed the score for The Winter Soldier?

He described it as half electronic production, half symphonic heroics.

What Bible verse on Fury's tombstone references Samuel L. Jackson's Pulp Fiction character?

Jules Winnfield's favourite recitation, more or less.

Which UFC champion plays Batroc?

Batroc is a master of savate, the French kickboxing style.

Which sitcom actor, a Russo brothers regular, has a small role as a S.H.I.E.L.D. technician?

DC Pierson plays an Apple Store employee.

How was Hayley Atwell aged to play a 96-year-old Peggy Carter?

Atwell had initially said she would not be in the sequel.

Which character does Emily VanCamp play, introduced as Steve's neighbour?

She is Agent 13, assigned to guard Rogers without his knowledge.

Frank Grillo's Brock Rumlow hinted he would return in the sequel under what alter ego?

Grillo signed a seven-film deal.

What kind of diet did Anthony Mackie eat to get in shape as Falcon?

Marvel would not let him read a script before he signed on.

Roughly how much did The Winter Soldier gross worldwide?

It was the seventh-biggest film of 2014.

Which film's April opening-weekend record did The Winter Soldier break?

Its $95 million debut was 46% up on The First Avenger.

What Rotten Tomatoes rating does The Winter Soldier hold?

Critics praised the action, the story and the political themes.

In which Academy Award category was the film nominated?

It lost to Interstellar at the 87th Academy Awards.

Which MCU era does The Winter Soldier belong to?

It sits between Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Where did the film premiere in March 2014?

It opened in US cinemas on April 4.

Which District 9 cinematographer shot the film hand-held to echo 1970s thrillers?

He used Arri Alexa cameras with Panavision anamorphic lenses.

What was the 2016 sequel, also directed by the Russos?

It grew directly out of the S.H.I.E.L.D. collapse and Bucky's return.

Which martial arts did Chris Evans train in for the film's fight style?

The Russos reasoned that a man brought into the present would have mastered modern fighting techniques.

Which Marvel TV series worked references to the film's events into its own plot?

Jed Whedon flagged the plan in November 2013; the show's first season pivoted on Hydra's exposure.

Which Avenger was considered for the film but cut because 'he didn't have enough to do'?

His intended parts went to Black Widow, and Jeremy Renner's schedule could not be worked out anyway.

How many visual-effects shots did the film contain?

ILM handled 900 of them, and the Helicarriers were entirely digital.

How many different versions of the film were produced for its various formats and markets?

They had to be finished in 17 days rather than the usual three to four weeks to make the release date.

What differed between international prints in Steve Rogers' catch-up notebook at the start of the film?

Marvel ran online polls to let fans in each country pick the items; the last five were the same everywhere.

Which Harley-Davidson model does Captain America ride in the film?

Chevrolet meanwhile supplied a specially designed Corvette Stingray C7 for Black Widow.

On which piece of land in the Potomac River does the film place the Triskelion?

Flight restrictions over Washington meant many D.C. shots had to be recreated digitally.