CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till release

[Greg Cox]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

Cap didn't start out as the ageless Living Legend of modern-day AVENGERS comics. In the movie, he's going to have to learn to be the Captain America we see today, sixty years later.

It's going to be a little weird, though, seeing a young Cap alongside a much older Iron Man in The Avengers.

That's going to be tricky, I admit. I guess Cap is going to have to be portrayed as mature beyond his years.

A few years of combat in WWII should do the trick . . . .

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

You know, the more I think about it, the more I think Krasinski could make a decent offbeat Cap, in the same way that RDJ made a great Iron Man.

Yeah, I'm not ruling him out. There must be a reason someone so unlikely has survived to this point in the audition process.

It's going to be a little weird, though, seeing a young Cap alongside a much older Iron Man in The Avengers.

That would be fun! Cap would technically be much older than Tony Stark and the rest of them.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

Cap didn't start out as the ageless Living Legend of modern-day AVENGERS comics. In the movie, he's going to have to learn to be the Captain America we see today, sixty years later.

It's going to be a little weird, though, seeing a young Cap alongside a much older Iron Man in The Avengers.

Cap when he came out of ice was probably younger than Stark. He was at most 24 to 25 while Stark was 30 to 40

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

Cap when he came out of ice was probably younger than Stark. He was at most 24 to 25 while Stark was 30 to 40

That may technically be the case, but in all practicality they look like they're about the same age (excluding Cap's years on ice) in the comics.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

Cap when he came out of ice was probably younger than Stark. He was at most 24 to 25 while Stark was 30 to 40

That may technically be the case, but in all practicality they look they're about the same age (excluding Cap's years on ice) in the comics.

I dunno, Tony's 'stache adds a few years.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

OH MY GOD John Krasinski is on the wish list?

THEY HAVE TO CAST HIM!

I love the idea! I really think he could portray a more upbeat good-natured Captain America. Especially if they ever do the fish-out-of-water story, he could EASILY handle playing a throwback to a "brighter America" Steve Rogers. One thing I love about this idea is that Krasinski's acting isn't "cynical" or "gritty" (well ok, Jim from the Office is kind of upbeat-cynical, but that's not the sort of cynical I'm talking about).

I'm sure purists would hate it. I don't really care though, I want to see it happen!

 

[Captaindemotion]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

In the Avengers movie, I really want to see bits where Tony Stark returns to his den to find his suit inside a big bowl of jelly (jell-o for you Yanks), where Nick Fury is delivering a speech and Captain America is looking at the camera with his eyebrows raised and a 'can you believe this shit?' look on his face and where the Red Skull (played by Rainn Wilson) is walking about with a 'Kick Me' sign stuck on his back.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

And then Hank Pym kicks him? As Giant Man of course. Hmm come to think of it maybe Ant-Man would be funnier.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

There maybe a problem

Movie blog Remington's Cinema is claiming that anonymous sources from the set of John Landis' Burke and Hare are saying that Marvel/Disney have postponed the Cap project from its announced 2011 release following the flop of Johnston's The Werewolf, teasing that the decision may allow the studio to switch directors.

We'll see I guess.

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

There maybe a problem

Movie blog Remington's Cinema is claiming that anonymous sources from the set of John Landis' Burke and Hare are saying that Marvel/Disney have postponed the Cap project from its announced 2011 release following the flop of Johnston's The Werewolf, teasing that the decision may allow the studio to switch directors.

We'll see I guess.

Did they actually refer to THE WOLFMAN as THE WEREWOLF? If so, I'd mistrust any source that can't even get the title of Johnston's new movie right.

(Seems to be a common problem, though. Our local morning radio deejays kept referring to it as THE WEREWOLF the other day. It was driving me nuts.)

 

[Professor Zoom]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

There maybe a problem

Movie blog Remington's Cinema is claiming that anonymous sources from the set of John Landis' Burke and Hare are saying that Marvel/Disney have postponed the Cap project from its announced 2011 release following the flop of Johnston's The Werewolf, teasing that the decision may allow the studio to switch directors.

We'll see I guess.

Did they actually refer to THE WOLFMAN as THE WEREWOLF? If so, I'd mistrust any source that can't even get the title of Johnston's new movie right.

(Seems to be a common problem, though. Our local morning radio deejays kept referring to it as THE WEREWOLF the other day. It was driving me nuts.)

I really wonder if Marvel/Disney really would delay Cap... wouldn't that totally mess with all the Avengers stuff too?

 

[Bad Bishop]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

There maybe a problem

Movie blog Remington's Cinema is claiming that anonymous sources from the set of John Landis' Burke and Hare are saying that Marvel/Disney have postponed the Cap project from its announced 2011 release following the flop of Johnston's The Werewolf, teasing that the decision may allow the studio to switch directors.

We'll see I guess.

I hope this isn't true. Director Johnston had already started preparing The First Avenger: Captain America. The flop of The Wolfman shouldn't have any bearing on the commercial viabilty of the Captain America. They're just too different, IMHO.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

^ Poor old Johnston came in late to the troubled production that was Wolfman and shouldn't have to carry the can for its inevitable failure (how many movies actually succeed in those circumstances?).

Of course, there was a story recently that he briefly walked when Marvel threatened to reduce the budget and his salary, before recanting. This may just be the way that the notoriously miserly studio gets to hire a cheaper helmer.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

Deadline Hollywood reported that Johnston and Marvel have been having a bit of a rough ride in developing the film, with Johnston even briefly walking off the film over a budget dispute. If they put it on hold and find another director, the relative failure of The Wolfman may be an excuse they use, but it was probably brewing for awhile.

I really wonder if Marvel/Disney really would delay Cap... wouldn't that totally mess with all the Avengers stuff too?

If Captain America is postponed then the next shoe to drop will probably be a further delay of The Avengers to summer 2013. The Avengers is going to be such a big, complicated film that an extra year may be welcome in any event.

 

[Trent Roman]

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I'd be fine with that. Jumanji is the only film of his that I've liked. It pisses me off that he's still blathering about doing a new Jurassic Park trilogy when he managed to take such an incredible concept and create such a subpar film out of it.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[captcalhoun]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

i loved the rocketeer and think he's great for Cap...

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

I didn't care much for Jumanji, but I liked Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, and October Sky. Johnston's Jurassic Park III wasn't as good as the first film, but it was much better than The Lost World.

 

[Trent Roman]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

^ Different tastes, I suppose, as I much preferred the second (while acknowledging that it, too, wasn't as good as the first). I wasn't aware that Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was his, though--I liked that one too. Guess I would prefer he stick to children's/comedy.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele

I actually prefered the third JURASSIC movie to the second one, too.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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Cap when he came out of ice was probably younger than Stark. He was at most 24 to 25 while Stark was 30 to 40

That may technically be the case, but in all practicality they look like they're about the same age (excluding Cap's years on ice) in the comics.

Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark looks older and a whole lot more raggedy looking than I've envisioned the character, but that's just what happens in the transition between comics and live action - you get more human variation, which I like.