New 'Captain America' trailer shows off D.C. cherry blossoms

"Captain America: Brave New World" stars Anthony Mackie as Captain America and Harrison Ford as the president of the United States. But it's unofficial costar is the Washington, D.C. cherry blossoms which steal the show in the movie's trailer, released on Saturday. 

The movie was filmed in D.C. during the spring of 2023, when peak bloom was between March 22 and 25. 

And the movie's release will come just ahead of 2025's season. "Captain America: Brave New World" has a scheduled release of Feb. 12, 2025. 

D.C. has been the setting for previous Captain America movies. A notable scene in 2014's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shows Mackie's Sam Wilson trying to race against the superhuman Steve Rogers, played by Chris Evans, by the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool, along the Potomac River and at the National Mall. 

This time, in "Brave New World" it's Anthony Mackie who gets to hold the star-spangled shield and become the patriotic super-soldier Captain America. 

Mackie's character will face off against Giancarlo Esposito as Sidewinder. 

Of course, Marvel is not the only superhero universe that uses The District as a backdrop. After all, DC Comics has D.C. in its name. Their 2020 movie "Wonder Woman: 1984" had Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman battling her enemies up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Captain America was created in 1940 by Jewish American comic book artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a protest against Nazi Germany and an isolationist sentiment that prevailed in the United States at the time as Adolf Hitler began to his genocidal campaign against Europe's Jewish population and other minority groups. One year later, World War II would begin, increasing the comic book's relevance. 

In 2011, Chris Evans was introduced as the movie version of Captain America, sparking a series of movies with a combined box office of over $2 billion.