Chris Evans Cast As Capt. America

[gantz]

The reboot was only announced essentially to keep the rights to the F4 movies, because if they hadnt announced it or had a press release regarding them, the rights would have gone straight back to Marvel.

and on the topic of a darker F4, wouldnt that basically defeat the purpose of the F4??? I mean, its not exactly grrity like Bats or Wolverine, its about a fantastic family with awesome super powers, what're they gonna do? have the baxter building replaced with some run down residintial apartment block in the Bronx?!?!

[1AZRAEL1]

Who knows what goes through their minds. I think they want more dark overtones, not so much the environment they are in.

[gantz]

Yeah thats for sure! sorry, What I meant was with the 'Bronx' setting would come the darker overtones.

Also I believe thats why the reboot of Spiderman is on the fast track and was announced immediatley. so the rights wouldnt revert back.

Now back to Cap, its going to be interesting to see how they make Evans look before the Super Soldier Serum.

[1AZRAEL1]

Well he is only just cast, but I want to see him in the suit. But we will have to wait a while I reckon, they want to keep the hype on Iron Man 2 (even though it has more hype than ever before)

Little off topic, but I want to see what Thor will look like as well dammit lol.

[gantz]

if you wanna see a little sneak peek at perhaps what Thor may look like, check out the movie 'The Getaway Plan' Hemsworth sports a rough beard and is REAL buff in it, the whole movie I was just thinking THOR!

Hopefully the suit for Cap will be more like the Ultimates costume.

[heroic_decepticon]

When was the last time you read a Captain America comic?
I was very sceptical of the character at a younger age, 'blah blah captain america stupid patriotic crap!!' until I decided to read Avengers: Disasembled, he then began growing on me, then came Civil War, my love for Steve Rogers really came out during that, who the character truly is, what he stands for etc.

I have read Avengers: Disassembled, Death of Captain America, Civil War, and most of the (rather) forgettable Marvel mega-crossovers of late. To the extent that Capt America is featured or focused on, he's no more remarkable a character than I remember (I did also read all the early Capt America stories especially almost the entire regular series, including crossovers, from the mid 80s to the late 90s).

So, no, I'm not taking pot-shots in the dark.

It saddens me to say this since I grew up with Marvel (and Capt America too), but to truely understand how mediocre Marvel really is nowadays, one can only compare its title with its competitors.

I offer the following DC titles/series to compare against (recognising that a one for one, like for like comparison is not possible): Identify Crisis, Blackest Night, the Green Lantern Saga (including Rebirth, Secret Origin and so on), All-Star Superman, All Star Batman & Robin, Batman: Hush, Superman: For Tomorrow, Superman/Batman: Supergirl, The Search for Kryptonite (and the entire Jeph Loeb run), Justice League of America: The Tornado's Path and The Lightning Saga; Y the Last Man, Fables, Air, The Sandman.

Who knows, lightning may strike and the Capt America movie may become as runaway sucessful as Iron Man, but I'm certainly not holding my breath for this one.

[Kyle]

Captain America is one of my favourite comic charaters. I hope this will be decent.

[GoktimusPrime]

Heh, I'd like to see what happens if they ever make an Avengers x Fantastic Four movie (improbable I know).

But surely nothing can ever beat the original Captain America movie! The new Captain America needs to keep all the classic features from the first movie such as...

Fashionable motorcycle helmet!

Irrepressible plastic shield!

Sexy American motorcycle (w/ pr0n music!)

I hope that in the WWII epilogue they show Captain America wearing his Ultimate WWII costume.

[Deceptic_Optic]

No0o0o0o0o! he will ruin it! his the human torch already damn!

[heroic_decepticon]

Sexy American motorcycle (w/ pr0n music!)

oh gwad. i could only sit through 2mins of that before i had to turn it off.