While Captain America 2 is still about two and a half years away, the first couple of details are beginning to leak out onto the Internet. Nothing major, just a couple of general settings and ideas.

Seeing as how the movie will be immediately affected by the events that take place in The Avengers, the movie is going to be set in the present day, with possible flashbacks to World War 2. The Red Skull-related events were surely not the only things that happened in the montage in Captain America: The First Avenger, so we might be seeing new things from there.

Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote the first movie, have had the following to say. First up, Christopher Markus:

I think it’s safe for us to say that it’s primarily set in the modern day. That seems to have been the biggest question people have been wondering about regarding the sequel… [W]e’ve been left with room to explore Cap entering the modern day wondering, ‘What is all this? What’s happened to the world’ and so on.

Next up, Stephen McFeely:

We made a movie where the world was in context for Steve Rogers. It was a movie where it was a more pure time, where there were clearly black-and-white, right-and-wrong, good-and-evil scenarios. And Cap is a guy who symbolizes that. Now he’s in the now, and there is nothing black-and-white. So what do you do with that guy? How does he react to a much more uncertain time? So you’re given this huge new palate to work with, but you can keep him the same.