‘Captain America’ Movie About Killer Drones and Obama’s ‘Kill List’, Say Film’s Directors…

The directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier have dropped a huge bombshell, by revealing that the popular sequel is a scathing critique of the Obama Administration’s controversial “Kill List.”

“[Marvel] said they wanted to make a political thriller,” Joe Russo, the co-director of the film along with his brother Anthony, said. “So we said if you want to make a political thriller, all the great political thrillers have very current issues in them that reflect the anxiety of the audience…That gives it an immediacy, it makes it relevant. So [Anthony] and I just looked at the issues that were causing anxiety for us, because we read a lot and are politically inclined. And a lot of that stuff had to do with civil liberties issues, drone strikes, the president’s kill list, preemptive technology.”

The directors, working closely with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, said that in The Winter Soldier, Captain America and the rest of the Marvel Universe heroes confront the government program “Project Insight,” which involves three Helicarriers (basically just drones), that target citizens based on data and intel fed to them electronically.

These Helicarrier drones preemptively eliminate “potential threats” to national and global security.

“It was all leading up to Snowden,” Joe explained to Mother Jones. “It was all in the ether [already], it was all part of the zeitgeist. The Snowden stuff actually happened while we were shooting.”

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