Austrian actor Daniel Brühl has taken to Twitter to give fans a look at how he’ll be presenting as Baron Zemo when he resumes MCU villain duties for the Disney+ streaming series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Check it out:
In the second image there, you can get a somewhat blurry glimpse of Daniel rocking Zemo’s classic purple balaclava look, which should have old school comics readers happy.
Zemo’s fashion-forward appearance was first unveiled on Saturday night during Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con presentation, when the good Baron interrupted proceedings with a pirate video link. That footage has not been released online, so these images are all that folks who weren’t lucky enough to be in attendance have to go by.
Zemo made his MCU debut in Captain America: Civil War. As the MCU wiki tells us,
“Helmut Zemo is a former Colonel of the Sokovian Armed Forces and the commander of the EKO Scorpion. Following the Battle of Sokovia, Zemo became a terrorist mastermind who sought revenge against the Avengers after losing his family and became obsessed with destroying them. Knowing that he was no match against the Avengers, he instead planned to have them destroy each other by first framing the Winter Soldier for the assassination of T’Chaka, causing Captain America to defend Barnes from the world. This action had caused the Avengers Civil War in which Iron Man led a manhunt for Barnes and Zemo allowed Stark to discover that Barnes was also responsible for the deaths of his parents. With the Avengers in ruins, Zemo then attempted to commit suicide but was stopped by the Black Panther and handed over to Joint Counter Terrorist Centre for his imprisonment.”
Obviously Zemo will be making moves outside of prison in the new series, which is due to hit in the northern Autumn (our Spring) in 2020.
