When showrunner Malcolm Spellman first signed onto The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he was told that it would be the first television series to come out on Disney+. This meant Spellman had to figure out how to bring the Marvel filmmaker experience to the silver screen. Working with director Kari Skogland, Spellman knew he wanted to bring the action but also bring a lot of the serious implications of being a hero post-Blip, surviving PTSD, and the weight of possibly being a Black Captain America. 

With the pandemic, plans had changed and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is now following behind the hugely successful WandaVision, but that isn’t deterring Spellman or Feige. Feige says despite the changes, he guarantees that The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is more action-packed with a deep understanding of these two characters that have never really been explored before.