Kari Skogland has been set to direct the 6 part Disney+ mini-series
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, with
Avengers: Endgame‘s
Anthony Mackie and
Sebastian Stan starring.
Sources said Captain America: Civil War‘s Daniel Bruhl and Emily Van Camp are also in talks to join. The miniseries will air August, 2020. I’d heard that Mackie’s accepting the shield from Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame will figure into the miniseries, but the studio had no comment on where it goes.
Bruhl played Zemo in
Captain America: Civil War, the mastermind who drove a wedge between Captain America and Iron Man that factored into the
Avengers films, and the murderer of Black Panther’s father. Malcolm Spellman (
Empire) has been writing.
Skogland is the Emmy-nominated, BAFTA award-winning director, showrunner and CEO of
Mad Rabbit, a Red Arrow Studios company, which launched in 2016. She has directed episodes of
The Handmaid’s Tale, the pilot block of AMC’s
NOS4A2 starring Zachary Quinto and the pilot block of Starz’s
The Rook. She also serves as a pilot block director and executive producer of Showtime’s upcoming limited series
The Loudest Voice airing in June and starring Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes and Naomi Watt as Gretchen Carlson.
Skogland also was exec producer and director of History Channel’s
Sons of Liberty, a 6-part event miniseries for which she won the Directors Guild of Canada (DCG) award for best director of a television miniseries. Her other credits include the premiere season of
Condor (Audience),
The Borgias and
Penny Dreadful(Showtime),
Boardwalk Empire (HBO),
The Killing, The Walking Dead and
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC),
Under the Dome (CBS),
Vikings (History),
Power (Starz),
The Americans (FX),
House of Cards and
The Punisher (Netflix). Skogland also directed and produced the indie film Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess, which premiered at a gala at Toronto International Film Festival. Skogland wrote, directed and produced The Stone Angel starring Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page.