Falcon and the Winter Soldier Writer on Marvel’s Secret “Parliament“ and Planting Seeds for Future

Derek Kolstad has been one of Hollywood’s most in-demand scribe ever since he created the John Wick franchise. Not only does he have a dozen projects in various stages of development around town, but he also wrote Universal’s upcoming Bob Odenkirk action movie Nobody and the Quibi series Die Hart starring Kevin Hart and John Travolta. So when Marvel’s Kevin Feige came calling, asking him to join the writer’s room for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he jumped at the opportunity. “Honestly, it was my first experience in a writer’s room in that capacity. And between [Malcolm] Spellman and [Dalan] Musson and [Michael] Kastelein and everyone else whose names I forget whenever I’m interviewed because I’m an asshole from time to time, it was a joy. But it’s tough because you show up at nine o’clock, you’re there until six, and then you go home and you write,“ said Kolstad, who estimated that he spent “a hectic two months“ working on the project, w