8. Who Is Alexander Pierce?
Who is Robert Redford playing in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Marvel – who also told us that Sir Ben Kingsley would be The Mandarin in Iron Man 3 – claim that it will be S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Alexander Pierce.
In the comics, he’s an agent fiercely loyal to Nick Fury, but I have a feeling that there will be more to him than initially meets the eye. Redford has already let slip that he’ll be playing a villain in the sequel, and there are two popular theories as to who he really is.
First up is that he is somehow the Red Skull, resurrected despite apparently dying in the closing minutes of Captain America: The First Avenger. Another is that he’s really the Russian Alexander Lukin; the man responsible for controlling The Winter Soldier (hence the red star on his bionic arm). Funnily enough, he too ends up ultimately being behind the return of the Red Skull…
