( EW.com ) -- Captain America is being redeployed . The coda to last year 's `` Captain America '' set up `` The Avengers '' and , in turn , `` The Avengers '' is apparently setting up a `` Captain America '' sequel . Marvel Studios and parent company Disney announced today that Chris Evans ' patriotic superhero will go straight into a stand-alone followup scheduled to debut April 4 , 2014 . While the original `` Captain America '' began in the 1940s and saw scrawny Steve Rogers become a chemically enhanced super-soldier who helped save the Allies during World War II , the sequel will , understandably , keep him in his chronological position in the present day . After being frozen for decades , and resuscitated in the strange new world of contemporary New York City , Cap is now planning to take it one day at a time . Marvel 's announcement said the sequel will pick up where `` The Avengers '' ( out May 4 ) leaves off , `` as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D . and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world . '' What we can infer from that ( apart from the obvious , that `` Captain America '' survives the ordeal of `` The Avengers '' ) is that Samuel L. Jackson sounds like he will be a significant part of the sequel , as opposed to the glorified cameos he has done in other Marvel movies . No other details about the project were released . `` Captain America 2 '' ( or whatever it is eventually called â€ ” let 's pray it 's not `` Cap2n America , '' or some such ) wo n't be the first sequel to hit theaters after `` The Avengers . '' That honor goes to `` Thor 2 , '' which is aiming for release Nov. 15 , 2013 , with `` Game of Thrones '' director Alan Taylor taking over for Kenneth Branagh . One question , though : After all he 's been through , is n't it time Captain America got promoted ? `` Major '' America ? Guess that does n't have the same ring . See the full article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Marvel Studios announced that the `` Captain America '' followup scheduled to debut April 4 , 2014 . `` The Avengers '' is apparently setting up a `` Captain America '' sequel . Marvel said that Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D .