Marvel.com has a series of articles going over on their website called “Make Mine Marvel,” which are “devoted to all the things we’ve loved about Marvel over the past 60 years.” The first one was about those awesome Mego dolls from the 1970s, while the second was on Marvel trading cards from the early 1990s.
Today’s article is a Q&A with Matt Salinger, who played the title character in the really cheesy 1990 Captain America movie. Yep, he’s still alive and is still working in the film industry:
Matt Salinger: I am now a film and theater producer, have been for the last 10-plus years; produced 14 films all in the million to $5 million range. [They're mainly] low budget, independent—usually straight to video. Some of them have had some theatrical play, some have been very artistically ambitious, sort of art house films—they do that modern day version of Hamlet. Some of them have intended to be commercial films. I did a Diane Keaton mob comedy called “Plan B,” and frankly that didn’t work out that well.
I’ve been working on this one particular play—I’ve produced several plays off-Broadway, around the country and internationally—but this one play, “The Syringa Tree,” won the best play of the year here in NY in 2001. At this point I only have two film projects that I’m really pushing.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I have the complete full sets of the Marvel Universe trading cards, series 1-4. I only have one hologram chase card though…
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I bought boxes of at least the first two series, maybe the third as well, and didn’t get many of the hologram cards. I also had the DC cards, where the holograms weren’t as rare.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
For a bad 90’s Marvel movie the Captain America film wasn’t half bad. Granted it was no Roger Corman “Fantastic 4″ (the benchmark against which all early Marvel movies should be judged) but I think it was still a better adaptation than the Dolph Lundgren “Punisher” film and a thousand times better than that atrocious “Justice League” pilot. I have fond memories of seeing this film on the Saturday matinee movie on the local independent TV channel (back when there were still 3 networks). Good times, good times. Glad to hear the guy is still working in the business.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I don’t care what anyone says, I totally loved that Cap movie when I was younger. It was “the business.”
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:13 pm
The most interesting thing about Matt Salinger is that he’s the son of one of America’s most heralded authors, J.D. Salinger.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I agree with Stranger. This wasn’t a good movie, but it did seem like they were really trying.