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UPDATE: Marvel Studios is also testing leads for the female role of Peggy. While Marvel is looking for an American actor to play Captain America, the candidates for the female lead are British. So far, Keira Knightley, Alice Eve, and Emily Blunt are under consideration. Blunt is known to be a favorite of Marvel brass: she was offered the role of Black Widow in Iron Man 2, until Fox exercised an option it held on the actress and put her into Gulliver’s Travels. Scarlett Johansson took the role.
EXCLUSIVE: While Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston continue to test candidates for The First Avenger: Captain America, I’m told that Marvel has also made an approach to Channing Tatum. Coming off G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra and Dear John, I would be surprised if he went in to test for the role now that he’s become a bankable commodity. It’ll come down to Marvel making an offer, and Tatum either accepting it or rejecting it. But he is definitely in the mix, along with other confirmed candidates that include Fantastic Four’s Chris Evans, Cloverfield‘s Mike Vogel and Tron Legacy‘s Garrett Hedlund, and Generation Kill‘s Wilson Bethel. Reports have Ryan Phillippe also vying for the job.
Interesting story I heard recently about Tatum. Asked by director Dito Montiel to star in Son of No One, Tatum agreed. But when Millennium and Nu Image took over the film and tried to squeeze Tatum on a deal that was already a discount, the actor’s UTA reps told Montiel that it looked like Tatum wouldn’t make the movie. This would have been a big problem, since Nu Image sold foreign on the film, right after Tatum scored a solid hit with Dear John. The movie might have imploded without him playing a young cop who questions a murder cover-up. Rather than accepting the equivalent of a Dear John letter, Montiel tracked down Tatum on the faraway set of the Steven Soderbergh-directed Knockout. After a heart-to-heart, Tatum was suddenly back in the picture, which sounds like a very Captain America thing to do. Sources close to Tatum said that the call prompted Millennium to live up to its original deal and that’s why the film will go forward.
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Ugh. Captain Wooden.
Bankable? Just cause his last 2 movies made money and now he is bankable? That was def the biggest joke of the year
he can’t act, he has that 1 note look (zoolander anyone?) and now he is bankable? Lol….
Agreed. dont get me wrong, tatum is a good action guy. but im still trying to find his acting chops
A guide to recognizing your Saints… watch it.
Agreed. “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” is fantastic, and Tatum is very good in it. The critics on this message board don’t know what they’re talking about — even if Tatum was less than impressive in other roles. Casting is about putting the right actor in the right role, and Tatum is fanfreakingtastic in certain roles.
He has zero emotion. A complete blank slate. And yes, I’ve seen “A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints”. And I thought he was a blank slate in that as well. Let’s get real people.
Millenium while making movies they are the lowest of the low when it comes to how they treat and pay people. Scum is how they think of you. I wrote a movie they bought and promised the world then they paid me .33 for my work and tried to pay me .01 for the work. When i called there bluff and walked I heard around town how they talked about me like I had bubonic plague and told others to stay away from me. Classy fellows.
Great job Channing calling there bluff!!! I would have asked for 2x my original deal for the pain and suffering they caused.
After seeing your inability to craft a sentence here, .33 is a helluva deal hombre.
I certainly do not mean to disrespect you by pointing this out, but I find great irony in an alleged screenwriter complaining of being underpaid, but using “there” in place of “their” in a massive run-on sentence when proving his.her point.
Then again, who am I to talk…
Did you write this post drunk?
No. I can formulate a proper sentence drunk. With the help of spell check I can even do it inebriated. THIS poor guy was chuggin’ brandy out of a plastic bottle.
If this is an indication of your work as a writer and you were paid, there is hope for all!
Wait,you’re a writer…jeez dude. Maybe they used your money to pay another writer to correct your syntax and grammar.
You’re that guy? I remember the story…they said you had typos on the cover page of the script too. THEIR (look it up, it’s different from there) version of your ineptitude is hilarious.
It seems Marvel goes on a higher level of “Known” with each contender.
Tell ya what, say what you want about Tatum’s acting ability (I personally think he picks his roles well and plays them correctly), but as someone who knows the guy through a close mutual friend, I can tell you he is as nice as they get in Hollywood. He’s a real class act, very loyal, hard working… the kind of guy you want on your set.
I hope he goes on to have a solid career and keeps making good choices.
So nice of Teddy the agent to give his client a shout out.
And since when should they be paying actors top dollar because they are “nice guys”
My Uncle Tito is the nicest guy in the world, and he can’t act either. Just because someone is a nice guy, doesn’t make him an actor. If they actually “watch” GI Joe, there is no way they could justify casting him in anything. It is the worst acting I have ever seen in big budget motion picture.
god i dont want it to go to tatum. i rather pick garrett, mike, or chris over him.
You’ve got to be kidding… This guy has the warmth and depth of a teaspoon. Come on guys… Out of all the young talent out there, you’re leaning towards this buttcrap!
Good to see creative and clear thinking is still a guiding principle in filmmaking these days… For those that are missing it… That was in fact sarcasm.
Why not just pluck an Oaf from UFC or the WWE and make the movie then. Ugh.
How bout’ I come over there and body slam you
the best post i ever done seen.
also, enough guide/saints accolades. movie was mediocre at best, and while it might have shown that shia has some chops not displayed in transformers, it does NOT do the same for channing tatum.
he played himself. and a good actor doesn’t “shine” in one role then never again. also, his director/role is more closely aligned to that of gijoe, not antonio so the more applicable comparison would be gi joe.
guy from tron would be a good fit in my humble, humble opinion.
Alright. He was good in Public Enemies and Stop Loss then. Steven Soderbergh saw fit to cast him in a movie. But yeah you’re right, can’t act.
Late one night years ago I caught “Step Up” a teen dance flick starring Channing Tatum – who was fantastic. It was like seeing Heath ledger in “10 Things I Hate About You” – a young actor bringing presence to a silly teen comedy.
Tatum has charisma to spare – he just hasn’t done a good movie, altho he has made mediocre movies into hits with his understated performances. He’d be a great Captain America.
“He is as nice as they get in Hollywood, a real class act”
Are you fucking kidding me, Teddy? Who is this guy?! Man that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day. What is this, the child-care industry? No one cares how nice he is as long as he fills theaters.
It doesn’t matter if CT can’t act, this is Captain America, not some character driven art house flick. Girls will go and see it because they think he’s hot, and dudes don’t mind watching him because he’s not some pretty boy pussy like Efron or Lautner.
Personally I doubt he’ll get the part, though Lousie has done great for him lately.
You gotta admit, he does play the wide-eyed soldier role pretty well…
CT is the obvious choice. He is the only one that can pull off the Captain America Electric Bugaloo.
Homie was good in She’s the Man.
So, does this mean the $300K per picture deal is kaput?
Seems Marvel is getting desperate and clutching at straws here. I wish they would just relax and take the movie off the schedule until they are sure about the casting. Doing it under the gun like this is obviously not working.
Personally I think Matt Damon is the best choice for the role at this point. All this prevarication on casting is making this movie seem more and more troubled and landing someone like Damon would silence those doubts pretty quickly. You need to believe the guy can order Downey Jnr and a freaking Norse God around the place – Damon might be able to actually sell that. These other kids I’m not so sure.
Sure Damon’s A-List and expensive and they’d have to scrap their crazy 10-picture deal, but it’d be worth it – getting this character right is key to Marvel’s whole long term plan.
Interesting that the female lead is obviously going to be Peggy Carter. She is Cap’s war-time flame from the comic. When he wakes up in the present he takes up with her sister/granddaughter (their relationship has been changed as the gap between WW2 and the present has grown) “Sharon”. I wonder are they hoping to use the same actress to play both characters (there’s a strong resemblance between the two in the comics)? or is this part just for the first movie?
Wow. A role calls for a muscular physical presence and commanding “acting chops”, and the best choice is…Matt Damon?
That says quite a bit about the state of today’s Hollywood. Throw in screenwriters who can’t tell “there” from “their” and people who think the CASTING was the reason that “Stop Loss” bombed, and you’ve just about summed it all up.
Ditto. Catch Damon while he’s at a career cross-roads (Green Zone hit a red light) and let him be Bourne again as Cap. He’s by far the best candidate–talented and smart–just like Marvel likes.
Marvel, remember–you get what you pay for!
Ugh. Channing Tatum won’t make me go see this movie. I’m just saying.
Marvel should seriously think about lifting their non- American actor ban to cast this movie, because at this point it’s obvious that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel loooking for a good Captain America and all they’re not finding him.
I wonder who’s the next bad hunky actor to be tested.
so is john krasinski officially out?
Emily Blunt again, Marvel? I’m down with that. Just don’t cast her talentless fiance
I want to be clear here. FIGHTING was a disaster. GI JOE sucked but if it made anything it was because of the toy brand. Dear John started out well but dropped off in week 2- and young girls went because of the book and the story. NOT because of Tatum. And his agent is one of the worst a-holes in history.
On the other hand, with Feige still employed the two deserve each other.
The issue is not really this movie but who will be acting alongside Robert Downey Jr and Ed Norton in the Avengers. He was awful in GI Joe, they really need to go with an unknown.
I have to admit, CT is a super nice guy. He sucked me off last night at Roman Holiday and not only did he swallow every drop of my AIDS riddled cum, but also licked my asshole clean.
super sweet guy and I hope he gets the role.
Ryan Phillippe would be the best
Ryan Phillipe? Double ugh. Another blank slate.
Ok. The role for an American I get. IF, and this is a big IF, if you want an actor with good chops handsome and would fit the type of C.A….why not Charlie Hunnam??? Channing Tatum?????? Come on, Man!
Charlie Hunnam is British lol.
Weird coincidence that Emily Blunt might get a role in Captain America after her husband John Krasinski apparently got taken out of the running.
Getting both of them involved would, theoretically, insure chemistry.
Channing is one of the best young actors out there right now. He makes Taylor Lautner look like he’s on the JV squad.
Just cast Viggo Mortenson as Captain A and get it over with. The role deserves an older actor, just like Wolverine deserved a Hugh Jackman, not a Channing Tatum.
ps Tatum cant act.