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It’s the rite of passage of modern cinema: to do your first comic-book movie.

And legendary Hollywood player Robert Redford seems to be hella into popping his blockbuster cherry.

Indeed, R2 is in talks to join Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

No specifics have been made known yet, but his prospective part has been likened to the role Ralph Fiennes played in Skyfall last year (that of – Spoiler Alert! – a replacement to Judi Dench’s M).

Which begs the question: Will Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury live to see another tentpole past the time-jumping sequel, which begins production in May and also will feature Emily VanCamp, Frank Grillo, and Anthony Mackie?

Time will tell.

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