Bullshit. Leo and Brad will NOT be Captain America.
June 13, 2008
The scoop mongers at Latinoreview have covertly discovered who Marvel wants to pick up Steve Rogers shield last seen on Tony Stark’s workbench!
Marvel has been having one hell of a week. First the Jon Favreau controversy, then we have a he said/ she said argument brewing over Captain America’s cameo, oh and tomorrow THE INCREDIBLE HULK opens which kicked all sorts of ass.
Well, speaking of CAPTAIN AMERICA, I have myself a trusted source internally over at Marvel and they are now starting to toss names for the role of Steve Rogers…..
Kevin Feige talks Marvel Film Universe, WW2 Captain American
June 13, 2008
Quint: Can we get a little update on the Marvel slate? I know that you just recently talked to IESB and discussed CAPTAIN AMERICA.
Kevin Feige: Yeah, that was when we brought them in to show them some clips, around the time Moriarty came by and saw some of the stuff.
Quint: I really love the fact that you are committing Captain America to appear in a period film.
Kevin Feige: I sort of let the cat out of the bag on that one by accident.
Quint: Yeah, a little bit, but I think if you were going to, that’s the best thing you could say, because one, it automatically gives the film a different identity than all of the other super hero movies and it’s just perfect for the character and you get to play with Nazis and you get to have that kind of villain.
Kevin Feige: I don’t want to talk too much about it, because it’s so far off and we are just putting everything together over the summer, but you look at the four films that we had announced and they are four very different movies and that’s why I’m excited about them. None of them can be pigeonholed into any particular category, but you’ve got the sequel to IRON MAN, which we all what that is now, you’ve got a fantasy epic with THOR, you’ve got a period adventure with Cap… then you’ve got the biggest crossover that has ever been and I don’t even know what to call it, but I like how different they all are. That’s one of the reasons we are going in that way and CAP is not going to be an authentic… no one is going to mistake it for a WWII movie, let’s put it that way, but it very much will be as close to that as we have ever done which is really cool.
Quint: You mentioned crossovers though, but there’s one thing that I am probably the most excited about with you guys having the Studios and having Stark in this movie and just having it all intersect, do you think that there is going to be a time when you will have the franchises you have already given to other studios be folded back in? Like with SPIDER-MAN or X-MEN or…
Kevin Feige: I think that’s probably a long way off, but that’d be great some day, but who knows? The ways that these deals are set up is that as long as those studios want to continue to make movies, they can with those characters.
Quint: Do you think there’s any possibility of going to them and getting an exception or something?
Kevin Feige: Anything is possible. You never know and really we are looking at the next three or four years for all of the ones that we control right now and putting them together and bringing them to the screen, but someday… who knows? It’d be great. It’s all about them coming home, which I like a lot, being under one roof now.
Quint: And having one continuous universe… I can’t believe there are two FANTASTIC FOUR movies without Spider-Man in it since they are so intertwined… Well, I think that’s about it.
- from AICN
There’s no way Captain America will be Matthew McConaughey
May 7, 2008
One of our long time scoopers dropped us a message tonight to let me know that Matthew McConaughey may be one of Marvel’s leading candidates to slip into Cap’s red white and blue underpants. Our source is a reliable one, but at this point it’s still very early and he’s only one of the actor’s they are considering for the role. - From cinemablend
A Creator of Captain America, Fighting On
April 16, 2008
“Living legend” is how Joe Simon is categorized on the list of special guests appearing at the New York Comic Con at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this weekend. Mr. Simon, 94, has a different take on it. “I call it the old-geezer table,” he said during a recent interview at his Midtown Manhattan apartment.
Mr. Simon will take part in the “Legends Behind the Comic Books” panel at 3 p.m. on Friday, one of numerous events planned at the convention, a three-day celebration of all things comics.
Mr. Simon earned the “legend” title with his partner Jack Kirby by creating Captain America, the superhero who arrived in December 1940, just in time to play a patriotic foil to the Axis powers. The cover of the first issue even has the good captain socking Hitler in the jaw.
Via NYTimes
