Captain America has a director...

[愛]

Originally Posted by raphael_is_cool

Yeah, but it was really suspenseful. Oh, wait, did you mean Hancock?

Yes, I meant Hancock. I dunno what the hell I was thinking...

[poiuytre]

I loved the Rocketeer, so I'm fine with this. I wouldn't mind Will Smith being Captain America at all either. He's a good actor and now with our first black president, it would be the ideal time to turn Cap America into an African American too. It would be a good marketing move I think.

[Mecha Cow]

Making Cap black just as a marketing move would be in pretty bad taste (though I'll assume that was just poor wording on your part).

Anyway, there already was a black Captain America, but he's a different character altogether. If they want to make a movie about him that's cool, but the Captain America is Steve Rogers, who is a white guy. In a WWII setting, that's pretty significant.

[odupianist]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

just as long as he punches hitler in the face, it'll be okay.

Gary Beach for Hitler!

Originally Posted by poiuytre

I loved the Rocketeer, so I'm fine with this. I wouldn't mind Will Smith being Captain America at all either. He's a good actor and now with our first black president, it would be the ideal time to turn Cap America into an African American too. It would be a good marketing move I think.

I think Cap being black would be a horrible move, but Mecha Cow already explained why.

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

Making Cap black just as a marketing move would be in pretty bad taste (though I'll assume that was just poor wording on your part).

Anyway, there already was a black Captain America, but he's a different character altogether. If they want to make a movie about him that's cool, but the Captain America is Steve Rogers, who is a white guy. In a WWII setting, that's pretty significant.

Isn't his name Patriot?

[Mecha Cow]

As far as I know the black Cap is called Isaiah Bradley, and Patriot is his grandson.

[poiuytre]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

Making Cap black just as a marketing move would be in pretty bad taste (though I'll assume that was just poor wording on your part).

Anyway, there already was a black Captain America, but he's a different character altogether. If they want to make a movie about him that's cool, but the Captain America is Steve Rogers, who is a white guy. In a WWII setting, that's pretty significant.

My bad. I didn't know there already was a black Captain America, nor that the race of the original was significant.

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

As far as I know the black Cap is called Isaiah Bradley, and Patriot is his grandson.

Yep.

I'd love to see Isaiah Bradley have a small role in the Cap movie.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

just as long as he punches hitler in the face, it'll be okay.

Nothing will ever compare to when Raphael punched Hitler in the face in TMNT Adventures!

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Jester

Ever watch Ultimate Avengers, Raven. It pretty much does just that.

Yea I saw that and was greatly dissappointed with it all. I usually dont care how dead on they are with the souce material they are going off of, but that one I wish they were awhole lot more faithfull.

Then again Im baised when it comes to the Ultimates.

[raphael_is_cool]

Originally Posted by poiuytre

My bad. I didn't know there already was a black Captain America, nor that the race of the original was significant.

Captain Native America!

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Raven

Yea I saw that and was greatly dissappointed with it all. I usually dont care how dead on they are with the souce material they are going off of, but that one I wish they were awhole lot more faithfull.

Then again Im baised when it comes to the Ultimates.

I guess I was really only talking about the opening stuff, before Cap gets frozen...then again I haven't read the Ultimates.

[cqb101]

Now we have some writers:

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely ("The Chronicles of Narnia" films) are in negotiations to pen Marvel Studios' "First Avenger: Captain America." The dealmaking occurs about a week after Joe Johnston (Jumanji, Jurassic Park 3) boarded the project as director.

Created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for Timely Comics, Captain America is the heroic alter ego of Steve Rogers, who is rejected by the Army for being too sickly and undergoes an experiment that takes him to the pinnacle of human form. Paired with an indestructible shield, he becomes a symbol of the war effort, fighting Nazis and villainous scientists like the Red Skull.

In modern times, the character starred in his own long-running comic series and also was a charter member of Marvel's superteam, the Avengers.

Marvel's "Captain America" will be a World War II-set movie, and the character will appear in the modern day-set "Avengers."

There are far worse choices out there.