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From Entertainment Weekly's 2025 Preview: 'Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra' boss exclusively previews globe-trotting WWII epic

When Captain America and Black Panther get in the same room together for the first time, there's always drama. Superhero fans saw how that played out on the big screen in Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War. They are not only super soldiers, but symbols of their nations — and certain responsibilities come with those distinctions. Steve Rogers is clothed in the colors of the American flag as the epitome of patriotism and the American Dream, while Wakanda's guardian is royalty who fights on both the battlefield and the international political arena.


As their worlds collide yet again in Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the upcoming video game from Skydance and Marvel Games, the developers sought to introduce different colors to that relationship as they pinpointed World War II as the time period for their AAA console release, set in their own pocket of the Marvel multiverse.


"It led us to do a bunch of interesting things," award-winning video game writer and director Amy Hennig tells Entertainment Weekly, "one of which was to not only tell a story with a young Steve Rogers who's still trying to find his feet, as opposed to the more seasoned guy that we've seen in a lot of the films. It also let us introduce a new Black Panther of 1943."
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Hennig, who heads the recently launched Skydance New Media, exclusively gives EW a peek inside Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, her division's debut video game, coming in 2025. Drew Moerlein (The Ruse, Horizon Forbidden West) plays Captain America. Khary Payton (The Walking Dead, Teen Titans Go!) plays Azzuri, this era's Black Panther and T'Challa's grandfather, described by Hennig as "more mature" than Cap. These heroes cross paths in Occupied Paris in 1943 and must strike an uneasy alliance to overcome a common threat.


"It led us to tap into all the things that I love, all of the wonderful tropes of World War II-era adventure films, classic men-on-a-mission movies and all of that," Hennig, who previously worked on the Uncharted games during her time at Naughty Dog, continues. "There's a lot of intrigue in our story, a lot of twists and turns, fascinating characters, and interesting locations."


EW can reveal an exclusive look at one such location: the lush, dense jungles of Wakanda, which Hennig confirms is a key setting alongside Occupied Paris. "We wanted to tell a globe-trotting story," she says. "There are yet-to-be-revealed locations in between." Hennig emphasizes the importance of the "photo-real, cinema-real level of detail" that comes with the animation for a setting like Wakanda — not just to properly immerse players into the environment, but to reinforce the idea that Steve and Azzuri come from very different worlds when they meet in Paris.
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