…I wonder if we should also make anything of the fact that Tony Stark’s dad is specifically mentioned in Iron Man as having been involved in the Manhattan project…could he also have been in on the creation of Cap? That would be another small note to tie the movies together…

A WW II period film is definitely the way to introduce the character to the general masses. And then you can end the film by having Steve frozen in ice and being woken up in 2009 or 2010 by the Avengers.

But for the love of God, keep Matthew McConaughey away from this project!

I’m officially excited.

Now to wait for casting news…

See I disagree with this…while I do think launching the solos first is a good idea, and then collecting them into one team, I think Cap would be better served as spinning out of the Avengers.

Give it ww2 Cap a lil screentime ala Ultimates issue 1 v1 in the Avengers movie…all you need, then create interest for more of a back story like Wolverine and Weapon X.

I think ppl need to be coaxed into the idea of a “super hero punching Hitler fighting alongside real troops” type of movie…and, in my opinion, most war movies should really be R, as to not candy coat what happens, real ppl suffer horribly…Brubaker in the Cap comic flashbacks has been pretty good with this. I worry about that in a Cap movie though…how will that pull that one off?

Makes me wonder… will we also get Bucky?

The main problem i see with this is that when the Avengers movie does eventually come out, a lot of it will have to focus on how Cap deals with today’s world. I think it will take some of the focus off of the other Avengers, especially those that will be debuting in the Avengers movie, like possibly Yellowjacket, the Wasp, Hawkeye, etc.

Release dates according to the article:

Iron Man 2: April 2010
Thor: June 2010
Captain America: May 2011
Avengers: July 2011

Looks like 2009 will be a quiet year for Marvel’s own productions (although I guess there will be Punisher War Zone in late 2008 and Wolverine in May 2009).

Flags of Our Fathers and Sands of Iwo Jima were pretty successful, and those were more recent than Saving Private Ryan…

This is good news for sure, and it’s the only proper way to introduce Cap to the big screen. Will he be revived in the Avengers movie, a mere two months later (if the schedule David provided is correct and holds) though?

That seems like overkill, not to mention it could have an adverse effect on the box office for Cap. Maybe. Now that I think about, Iron Man’s been out for less than a month. It’s still holding up really well, but after 2-3 months that movie will be winding down its theatrical run.

It’s either a brilliant move, or a really bad one. And I guess only time will tell. The casting will be crucial, of course, as will the transition of bringing Cap into “our” time.

I look forward to seeing how the movie Cap will react to the nation, and the world, as it is today. If it’s anything like Brubaker’s approach, it could be great stuff. Makes me hope for a second solo Cap movie, perhaps more than an Avengers flick.

Clearly Marvel is moving towards making these movies interconnected. I wonder if one day the movie arguments about continuity will be the same as comic ones?

Oh, and I wouldn’t compare this to the average WW II flick. Besides the fact that some have done really well, as others have mentioned, this is hardly going to be the same kind of film as Private Ryan, or Pearl Harbor.

Think of it more like an Indiana Jones movie. Those are period pieces too, and while none of them were set as WW II movies the Nazis were major players in two of the first three films.

Excellent. I love the WWII stuff for Cap, and it forms so much of the basis for his characterization that they would’ve at least needed to make heavy use of flashbacks if they’d set it in the present. Best to just throw viewers into the war headlong and see what makes Cap Cap.

I hope we get some variant on the Ultimate WWII costume, too. While I hate Ultimate Captain America with a violent passion, Hitch’s design for the WWII costume is far, FAR superior to the original WWII costume.

Actually, neither FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS nor LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA did well at the box office, though both were critically praised. ATONEMENT, however has done very well, and that’s a current release.

In any case, it’s weird, sloppy thinking to me that if there hasn’t been a successful WWII film recently that people just don’t like WWII films. That’s like saying that if people didn’t like BATMAN & ROBIN, then they obviously don’t like Batman films. There’s no absolute taste involved in any genre…

i really hope they get Jensen Ackles from Supernatural as Captain America
I’m not sure of any other actors that would do a good job in the role

…as it should be, woot!!!

I couldn’t be more excited to see a CAPTAIN AMERICA film, but I hope to God they drop that “First Avenger” part of the title. I think it’s as bad as the “X-Men Origins” thing. Totally unnecessary, I think.

Reportedly, Matthew McConaghey is NOT being considered by Marvel.

For Cap, it may be better to go with a more or a’unknown’actor (so long as he is good).

Glad to hear that Thor will take place in Asgard.

“Most people (over here in the UK, at least) think of the 60’s TV show when they hear about the Avengers.”

I’m hoping Sean Connery plays the villain in this movie too.

This really, really , really needs Namor and Torch to kickstart properly.
Here is hoping.

Baxtos, I think that was just a reference to the SR-71 Blackbird. May have been a gentle nod to the X-Men, their jet is modeled on a modified SR-71 in the first place.

OH MY GOD!

Imagine the first scene in Saving Private Ryan but with cap running around offing Nazis!!!

SO AWESOME!!!

I’d like to see Sgt. Nick Fury (and his Howling Commandos) in WWII.

Add to the intrigue, build on the mystery of Fury in each of these Marvel films.

I doubt they’ll get Damon; it’s only once in a blue moon that we get casting as perfect as Downey for Stark.

I just have one request: KEEP…ZAK…PENN… AWAY…FROM…THIS…SCRIPT! There are SOOOO many others some of whom have ALREADY written movies for Marvel, who can pull this off much, much better!

The main problem with Cap’s appeal to the general public and thus the success of his movie is not so much where and when his story takes place, its how to make that costume of his look cool on the big screen. In comics and to comic fans it’s great and is a classic, but to the general public and especially up on the big screen in real life it kinda looks really dorky. A non comic reading friend of mine once saw a poster on my wall of the Zeck drawn image of Cap fighting Wolverine and proclaimed Cap’s outfit to be the most absurd thing he’d ever seen. This was due mainly to the wings and the swashbuckler boots. So an ultimate style revamp is required for the movie, maybe even going further somehow. The other problem with Cap’s massappeal status is the general antipathy a lot of the world feels for the US and its patriotism obsession. So I don’t know how a hero who embosies these things is going to do at the box office.

Well, like i said on the imdb boards, this is indeed the perfect setting. All ww2. Of course we should get bucky. Not sidekick bucky so much as highly trained soldier bucky. Not a kid bucky, but a young (19?) soldier. Build that he is a major badass just like in the brubaker books. He does what a man wrapped in a flag cant.

The Avengers movie should be the “man out of time” and his guilt over leading bucky to his death.

Cap 2 should be some form of the winter soldier story. It would be the only thing really that cap would want to do alone.
“Sorry nick, tony…this is something i need to handle on my own.” this will disconnect him from the avengers for his own sequel and still be believable.

It cant be Cap Vs. anyone for the sequel because people would just ask “why doesnt he call thor to help with these serpent guys”

I could see the outfit going the Ultimate route with combat boots and an update. I could also see him in dungarees (like on the cover of the Red, White, and Blue anthology) or more realistic as in ‘The Chosen’ with the chainmail. Cap didn’t look silly at all in Breitweiser’s realistic style.

Re: casting, my only concern about Damon would be his age. The guy is 38, and I’m not sure your ideal super soldier candidates would be guys pushing 40 (or even 30).

I’m not excited for a movie that ends with Cap being frozen…

Yes, the man out of time theme/idea is the best way to go for Cap. It is and has always been a fantastic concept in the comics(am currently loving the 12) and should be for the big screen also.
As for the costume the ultimates style is definitley the way to go with very dark colours. maybe even make him all dark blue with a basically normal GI uniform and have just the classic Cap top from the waist up, or the flag ala USAgent. I actually thought USAgent in the Invaders looked cool and could be the way to go.
Just some ideas, and for the record I’d love it if the classic normal Cap outfit could be used but I just don’t think It’d work.

This is great news!

I expect both Captain America and The Avengers will be shot within the same period of time, much like the Matrix sequels, in order to make release dates two months apart. Also, the title makes much more sense now when viewed with all of these facts giving context. I was originally wary of Cap and Avengers coming out in the same summer, but if the end of Cap leads directly into Avengers, that’ll be pretty awesome.

Thank you Marvel Studios

This should be cool, it needs to be set in WWII. I’ personally like to see it end w/ Cap falling into freezing North Atlantic, getting entombed in ice slab, after disabling a rocket, credits roll over ceremoies honoring cap/historical updates from our society & then a coda with SHIELD vessel finding somthing in water with life signs, Fury calling Tony & saying we may have found something you’d be interested in

I’m very happy to hear this. I hated the fact that in the last Captain America movie they attempted that they had him in present day when there is so much to explore in the World War II era.

If I hear the news that they’ll be including Bucky too then I’ll think I’ll have to do my happy dance

On a side note… I do not think they should show Cap being frozen in this movie. Save that for the opening of the Avengers… or better yet keep it as a mystery for now how he ended up in that block of ice. I’d like to see them continue to explore the Second World War in a Captain America 2 movie. That way they can keep Cap exploring the present day in future Avengers movies. He is the heart of the team and they need to have personal development of some characters in the Avengers. I can’t see them doing this for Iron Man or the Hulk… it’s better they’re explored in their own movie. Thor… well… who knows how they’ll handle Thor? I just hope Don Blake is somehow involved in Thor arriving on Earth.

As to other Avengers characters (which someone else mentioned)… there’s no evidence that they’ll be included. Hank Pym will be in the Ant-Man movie… but no connection between Ant-Man has been mentioned by Marvel. When they talk about Avengers movies they only mention Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Wasp belongs with Hank Pym so wherever he ends up I’m sure he will. Hawkeye could make an appearance in the Avengers or a future Iron Man movie or his own movie. His fate is really up in the air. The only other primary Avenger characters are the Vision (who has his origins mixed up with that of Ultron and the original Human Torch… which would be very complicated), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. The latter two have an equal connection to the X-Men franchise which is controlled by 20th Century Fox. Also as the Vision is the original Human Torch… one must assume that the rights to that original Human Torch character are tied up with the Fantastic Four movie which is also controlled by Fox.

To me, this is a great way to introduce the Captain America character to the “General Public”. To set his origin, and some of his adventures in the WWII era is really the way “to go”.
When I think of what this movie could be …I think of Indiana Jones- Raiders of the Lost Ark- and the reminiscence of the Saturday afternoon serials of the ’40’s and early 1950’s kind of adventure story… with Captain America (and, I sincerely hope, Bucky) fighting the Nazis and the Red Skull and Baron Zemo… and the movie reminding us of the patriotic feelings we had for America in the 1940’s.
(Some have lost that Patriotic Spirit since the Anti-American undermining of our Country by the enemies on the Left and their attempts to try to destroy America started by the Leftists of the ’60’s…which continues today.)
Captain America is a symbol of the Greatness of our Country… it’s fight for Liberty…and individual freedom… and Democracy… which the Left so violently opposes.
I hope this movie revives some of that Patriotic feeling… and shows Captain America (and Bucky) fighting the Nazi fascists and all those who would try to take our Freedom and Liberty from us.
To include The Human Torch, Toro, and Namor, the Sub-Mariner,… would also be “very cool”. We would really get the sense of the Marvel Universe in the 1940’s setting… showing that Captain America wasn’t the only Marvel Hero during those dark days of World War II… that he wasn’t unique.
And Namor could even show himself in The Avengers Movie throwing the “ice totem” into the water… that The Avengers find on their way to battle The Hulk AND Namor.

Ya know,– Stan and Jack laid out a beautiful, interwoven story… that would be great to follow.

(The “movies” won’t, though. The “movies” have made Nick Fury a Samuel L. Jackson-black… which takes the “real” Nick Fury out of the World War II story-line. [See: Sgt. Fury and his Howlin' Commandos #12.] which seems a shame to me. So, …they’ll screw it up… but hopefully, not toooo bad.
This movie can wonderfully lay the “ground-work” for understanding the character of Captain America… and what makes him so “Legendary”. To give each of these Marvel characters their own movie first, …and then, team them up together,– is the very Right thing to do.
To just throw a bunch of characters together like DC was trying to do with the Justic League of America movie …was the “wrong thing” to do. But DC doesn’t really know how to do things… so, it figures. They are “way screwed up”.

Stan and Jack knew how to build a Universe… and bring things together just at the right time. DC… not so much.
As far as the suit… I like Jack’s rendition.
Hope the Avengers are Thor, IronMan, Ant-Man, the Wasp… and a belligerent Hulk. After The Hulk’s departure… the Avengers find a frozen Captain America.
I’ll say it again… Stan and Jack knew how to tell a story… and those who are doing the movies should take note.

This is awesome !!! Cap set in WWII is the best starting point for the character to be introduced to newbies as well as a real treat for us established fans. I would love to see the Avengers movie deal with reviving him into todays world……….at least the first half of the movie.

The WW2 setting as an introduction fits their plan to set the Thor mainly in Asgard after either showing him in Iron Man 2 or at least forshadowing him in one way or another. With Thor they might show the hammer fall as in the recent relaunch or have it discovered archaeologicly. Perhaps Donald Blake will be referred to or depicted in a cameo, if he is going to be used once The Avengers brings Thor into a modern setting.As for Cap I could see his modern awakenning either hnted at in his own film or in the Avengers.Given the planned release dates I suspect they will forshadow his return at least.
With Thor when he appears in the present They will probably mix the original with the Ultimate version.Much as I love the winged helmet and cape they might look comical in a modern context though they doubtless will be used in Asgard.I hope the revised script leads more smoothly to Thor’s appearing in modern times as previous synopses suggested he learned his lesson of humility in medieval times, undercutting the original reason Odin sent him to Earth. While I can imagine various other scenarios most are not very close to the original.I can even see the humility lesson being only a partial motive but to dispence with it does change the character quite a bit.
I would probably extend the bit in the comics where Odin revealed why he sent Thor to Earth, for breaking a treaty with the giants out of pride and lack of forthought.That would give a chance to show Loki’s plotting etc.. Then Loki could be imprisonned at the end for his actions and Thor exiled to Earth.The modern timing could be tied to Loki’s escape perhaps much as occurred early on in Thor and the Avengers. But the linkage of past to present has to be done carefully for both Thor and Cap.

you all are spitting out names and names for captain america based on build and a list actors and wrestlers and what not, but in reality it really does not matter what we have to say who we want to be captain america. All the names that were given were horrible choices because of conflicting roles in similar movies. If you want capt. america to be a great movie they need to cast someone who has not been in a superhero movie yet or has been huge in movies. You want somenoe who is young so they can make sequels and the actor can star in the avengers. Here is a problem with every name given and then i will share my choice and the reason y.

Brad Pitt-too old, and he is Achilles-not a superhero
Thomas Jane-is the Punisher nothing else
Ryan Reynolds-Already cast as deadpool
Chris Evans-Human Torch
Damon-jason bourne
Josh Duhamel-Transformers
Matthew Fox-Speed Racer and not blonde
Scott Speedman-Underworld
Paul Walker-just not right say no more

If we want this to be a good movie either pick someone from television or from a action based movie but not one that has anything to do with comics or cartoons.

The three choices i put forward are
Jensen Ackles-from supernatural, has played a strong character on supernatural and can pull of the capt role, also has played a lil part of the good guy so he can pull of steve.

Mike Vogel-did a great job as the good guy/boy scout in Posiedon, also did awesome as a leader in Cloverfield. Everyone is stating the height as a negative but in reality in todays industry they can alter that.

Finally Justin Hartley- he was Oliver Queen in Smallville and also Aquaman in the failed pilot for the CW.

These three i believe are the best choices because they are somewhat of unknowns even though Hartley has played superhero roles on tv he has the experience of being the superhero and fits the role, vogel is right for the role but his height is what people are saying is a negative and like i said in the industry today that can be fixed and ackles has dealt with supheroes. These three choices are young up and coming actors and are types that i can really see developing into the part.

Comment by Max:
“The other problem with Cap’s massappeal status is the general antipathy a lot of the world feels for the US and its patriotism obsession. So I don’t know how a hero who embosies these things is going to do at the box office.”

This is ridiculous. A movie that embodies the American way of life is EXACTLY what this movie should be about. Patriotism IS part of our history and culture. To hell with anyone else in the world who sees it differently. Americans are among the most generous people in all of the world and we should NEVER forget that!