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UPDATES Who Will Be Captain America?
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston want to be really sure they’ve found the right actor to star in The First Avenger: Captain America. Marvel has slightly expanded its search — adding actors that I’m told include Chris Evans, who already logged Marvel Comics superhero time as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in two Fantastic Four films. Of the original contenders, two are still in serious contention: Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy). Hedlund was on Marvel’s original wish list but didn’t test at first. Scheduling was th reason, but I also heard his reps balked when Marvel informed them that the job would include options for 9 future films and a salary of only around $300,000. It’s not going to work out for the other actors who tested: Chace Crawford (CW’s Gossip Girl), John Krasinski (NBC’s The Office), Scott Porter (NBC’s Friday Night Lights), Michael Cassidy (CW’s Privileged) or Patrick Flueger (Brothers). Paramount Pictures will release the film July 22, 2011. Hedlund can be seen in Disney’s new trailer for Tron Legacy, which you can watch here.
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Krasinkski is still the frontrunner for this role. Evans is an afterthought who YES, is in the running, but only now late in the game (do not expect him to land it, so much as give another look).
I hope this is true
You must get your news from Perez Hilton. Complete bull. He’s out.
who’s out? Krasinski or Evans?
Why not Ben Lawson??? He would make an amazing Captin American…Not only that he would carry an international following bringing in the big bucks since he is LOVED in Australia and growing in the US…
I would think that they actually want an American to play Captain America, which is why all the considerations are American.
I picture someone rough and naturally taciturn as the Cap…think Vin Diesel. Also, with the current trend in American demographics, how cool would it be to have a Latin-American as the 2nd most iconic American superhero? (Superman of course being recognized around the world as the most ‘american’ of all the superheroes) Plus, who says latino men can’t portray stereotypical American patriotism? I know that the storyline of Cap makes him out to be a somewhat average person before taking on his role, but come on…who wants to see an ‘average’ superhero? It barely works for Spidey, who, as everyone knows, is among the smallest (physically) heroes in the whole genre.
I would love to see Vin play this, but I agree with the other comments, Cap does get a bit long-winded for a hero (usually villains do the monolouging), so would need to be able to pull of the speeches without being cheesy. But they definitely need to find someone built like that.
Everyone is missing it. Brian Presley should be Captain America. He starred in Home of the Brave with Sam Jackson, and has just landed the lead role in Arabian Nights to be directed by Chuck Russell.
THomas jane, a little older, but looks the part!!!
Ryan McPartlin from Chuck (Captain Awesome =DUH= Captian America, Jensen Ackles from Supernatural, Ben Barnes from Chronicles of Narnia 2, Justin Timberlake (just because I love him not a real suggestion…Ryan Gosling??? Or Armie Hammer = possibly up and coming with the look plus a sexy voice and nice smile. These are my suggestions!
What the hell? Why hasn’t Dustin “Screech” Diamond been called to try out for the role?
lol… lol…lol….lol… gasp….gasp…..gasp…lol…lol…lol…I can’t stop! lol… that was priceless!!! lol…..
There could be no worse choice for Captain America than John Krasinski. Talented actor, yes, but that doesn’t mean he is the right choice for any role. Joe Pesci is a great actor, but I don’t want to see him as an action star. Robert Downey jr. was a stroke of genius for Tony Stark because he embodied all of the qualities of the character as it is written, including physical description, and natural delivery and physicality. John Krasinski has the physical features of a comedian (not just saying that because he has been in comedies – look at him), not a leading man, and he certainly doesn’t have the features of an action hero, and Captain America is THE action hero! Krasinski also doesn’t have a strong, authoritative presence – doesn’t make you think leader at all. Even if they trained him for a year, he still wouldn’t look right, sound right, or act right. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Back away, Krasinksi.
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well this is an interesting twist in things. Alot of sites been running its likely going to be krasinski who i wouldnt really mind. I am sure he would do well. But if vogel/helund have a better shot now i would love to see it. i wonder who else besides evans have also tested.
Why don’t they just get Taylor Lautner/Shia Lebeouf
(and no, I do NOT think of them as two separate people)
Isn’t he already doing a movie where he is playing a superhero? Not to mention there is the possible back to back Breaking Dawn movies that he will film in the fall. I think he has a fourth film in there somewhere where he play some kind of student pilot or whatever.
Shia Lebeouff can be considered as the young Steve, he can fake a decent limp, but in the name of everything Holy, please let Matt Damon be CAP!!! He’s the one and only actor for this one and only character!!! On some level I was so glad Marvel didn’t plan the Cap Movie until now, cuz the timing couldn’t be better, Matt Damon has become the man for the job!
Although Marvel’s casting standards can be quite unpredictable, they might shine their light on some not too well know actors, so if Matt fell through, I will be extremely disappointed.
They should just get Sam Worthington to play Captain America.
Sam Worthington isn’t going to sign on for $300K. No chance.
Nah, they should probably get somebody who can actually do an American accent… like Guy Pearce.
John Krasinski as Captain America? What the hell? Why not make Jerry Seinfeld Batman. Captain America is supposed to be a tough, no nonsense, superhero like a Christian Bale, or Sam Worthington or something like that. These names being thrown out there all suck.
Sorry but…you’re wrong.
“By early 1940, before America’s entry into World War II, Rogers is a tall but scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration.”
Uh… who are you quoting? Yourself?
Yeah, or maybe even Michael Keaton as Batman…..oh wait…..
EXACTLY!
For $330K, Marvel should just look for a no-name and have a solid supporting cast.
Finally a realistic comment. $330k to a no name and put in a good crew. All the other Cap movies sucked big time. Remember the TV version where he had a conversion van that opened up to reveal a motorcycle that he cruised around in? He had a cool shield though…
I nominate Bernie Madoff. He pretty much captures all the qualities of America in the 21st century. All he needs is steroids, a shield and some tights.
Here’s the problem (and it was also a factor in casting characters like Thor, Spidey, and Iron Man): Marvel superheroes are suprisingly talkative.Cap, specifically, NEEDS to be able to give rousing patrotic speeches. Hollywood action heroes can get away with being “the strong, silent type”, but these characters need guys who can do action AND dialogue. In short, actual ACTORS.(And even that isn’t enough; they need the RIGHT words to say). These are among the toughest roles an actor can take on… and they know up front they’ll never get critical praise for it.
they only wanted american for the role.
Other sources reported today that Marvel has said Krasinski is the frontrunner and has done at least 4 screentests.
i put my money on nikki’s info. and if krasinski did 4 screentests, that’s hardly a vote of confidence for an actor.
It kind of sounds like Marvel is desperate at this point. I read on io9 that they tested two Jonas Brothers and Danny Cook. Come on!
Marvel should hire Alexander Skarsgard and get on with it. If he does a good job most moviegoers won’t care if he’s not American.
It’s “Dane” Cook. And io9 got that scoop from a celebrity gossip site. I’m more inclined to trust Deadline.
A Marvel source told Gossip Cop that the Jonas Brothers did not test for the role.
Dane Cook wrote on his Twitter page that he was auditioning, and he made the background of his page a Captain America drawing. While he may not be a “frontrunner,” I’d be willing to bet he was at least considered. He looks right for the role, honestly.
Alexander Skarsgard is who should be playing Thor.
Yeah, and Chris Hemsworth or whatever his name is should TOTALLY be playing Captain America! He’s PERFECT for it! It’s too bad Marvel already cast him as the wrong hero…
SAM WORTHINGTON is perfect.
It doesn’t get more obvious than that, well– except that he’s an Aussie!
Where is Chris Pine in all of this?
Can he not be Kirk and Captain America?
Well, since he can’t be counted as being Kirk (Shatner is the one and only Kirk), I don’t think he’d be a good Captain America either.
Thats kind of weak for you to just throw your hater-ade all over Pine for no reason. Damn good as Kirk; could possibly make a better Cap. But he would ask for more than Marvel would throw out there.
Here..Here…I totally agree, Pine would be perfect for the Captain,
and also agree he did an outstanding job as the young Kirk.
Finally someone mentions Chris Pine. I was wondering when someone would consider him. I think he would make a wonderful appearance as Captain America.
damn it, I was already set on John
I really think Marvel should ignore the fact that Chris Evans was the Human Torch. Keyword: Was. The Fantastic Four franchise is getting a reboot with new actors anyway. So I think Chris would be picture perfect for Captain America. Though I hope he can handle a film, that isn’t mainly a comedy.
He was fine in Push and great in Sunshine – neither of those come close to being a comedy.
Krasinski is a good actor just can’t see the guy as a superhero.
Garret Hedlund I believe will make the best choice. He has the cool factor going, and if Tron Legacy is a hit Marvel will have themselves a larger audience for cap.
I think he’s terrible when he’s not brooking. Dialoge doesn’t seem to be his forte.
Wasn’t it announced recently that The Invaders will be featuring in the Cap flick? Surely Chris Evans is far more likely to be playing the original human torch from that gang than he is Cap?
I trust Deadline Hollywood, so I hope you are right and others are wrong and that Krasinski is really out. Vogel and Hedlund and even Evans seem far more suited for the role. Despite being totally wrong for the part as best as I can tell, there is also the troubling Emily Blunt/Joe Johnston connection. One would hope Captain America is not ultimately cast based on who the director is friends with.
No foreigners, the one superhero who should be American
America is made up of former foreigners
what about Alexander Skarsgård?
I don’t buy Krasinski as a superhero one bit. In fact, if he gets it I can guarantee I won’t see it. They need a badass, not too young, not too old… someone believable. A sarcastic, mumbling, string bean-looking, mop head doesn’t fit — sorry. Find an American Ryan Reynolds maybe ??
You do realize that they probably won’t write the roll as Jim from the Office as Captain America, right? The guy’s acting isn’t sarcastic, a previous roll is.
People said this same kind of crap when Heath Ledger was cast as Joker. Look at acting ability, the content of a prior roll is irrelevant.
I am looking at acting ability and unfortunately Krasinski has a limited range. As someone who has seen most of what he’s done in recent years, his short appearance in Jarhead, the atrocious License to Wed, It’s Complicated and his best performance to date: Away We Go, I can safely say that Krasinski doesn’t have what it takes to be Captain America. He’s not a bad actor, but he is a limited one. Additionally, as shallow as it sounds he simply does not look like any incarnation of Captain America.
Honestly the only reason he’s been in play so long is because Emily Blunt is friends with Joe Jackson.
please tell me you did not just seriously try to compare heath ledger to john sitcom friggin have you seen how bad he is in movies krasinski.
So I guess you’d buy Gabourey Sidibe is the next Wonder Woman, huh?
Your Ledger analogy is terrible, think of another one, big guy.
Roll?
Time to buy a dictionary, dude.
same guy who says, “would of” instead of “would have”
Most Marvel heroes aren’t “badass.” That was the whole point of Marvel, to show what happens when ordinary, average or even below average people get powers. As opposed to the DC superheroes who were gifted at birth or by gods or through their family wealth and connections. Marvel heroes are supposed to be very ordinary people in extraordinary situations who the nerds who got kicked around in high school can identify with, not the jocks or the tough guys.
Of course people realize Jim from the Office won’t be CA, but he plays that role in everything he does, even interviews. I think Jim is really John. It’s like casting the Harry Potter kid as a superhero, your brain can’t get around it. I get it that Marvel likes their nerds, but give me a break… Iron Man is a badass, even though he is a wealthy uber-nerd. Just get someone believable.
I just think you should think about John Sena as Captain America that all. good by.
That is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard
Ryan Reynolds was born in Canada, which I guess is sort of “American Light”….light on charisma
Why did you even mention Ryan Reynolds? I don’t see anyone else mentioning him here. Was it just an excuse to make the lame “american light” joke that has never been remotely humorous to anyone older than 5? “America light” lol, you do know that wolverine and deadpool, arguably the two biggest badasses in the Marvel universe are Canadian right? And that NOBODY SAID RR HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH CAPTAIN AMERICA??
Hugh Jackman is Australian
ryan reynolds is canadian
DO NOT CAST KRASINKSKI AS CAPTAIN AMERICA. Do you read the comics? Funnyman Krasinkski cannot do it. He is too jovial. Captain America is serious, courageous, the first one in a battle and the last one out. Captain America has such a large dedicated fan base. Did you not read about the uproar that occured when he was killed? Do your research casting!
Too jovial? Is it beyond your imagination that someone can act like 2 different people in 2 different roles?
Even Robin Williams has done dramatic performances. As has Dan Aykroyd. And both were critically acclaimed for it.
If you look at it, any comedian who turns to drama get it perfectly because they have excellent timing. Case in point, Will Smith, Jim Carrey, Bill Murray.
I’m pretty sure John won’t turn Captain America into Jim from the Office. Does Hugh Jackman shoot metal claws out of his fists in every movie?
Sometimes he shoots them from other places…
It’s not that he’s jovial, really. It’s that he looks more like the waterboy than the the all-American quarterback.
This role should go to a young buff unknown African American or Asian American actor. I think whites will be drawn to this movie because a choice like that would recognize the changing face of America. Not that blacks or asians are the new faces of America but going in a direction that no one expects would be a real pleasant surprise for all cultures. Let’s not forget that Captain America’s creation was basically for war propaganda and his popularity is nothing like it was during the war years in the 40′s and even into the 50′s. This is a very different world. Captain America can fight terrorists but if there’s too much of “America Ra Ra, America the Greatest!” Stuff it can turn the kids off. I would love to see this go in the direction of the Dark Knight. The real Dark Knight. All the suggestions above are a little typical. America can be represented by more than just a white man. Every single superhero is a white guy. PLEASE CHANGE IT UP!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!
That’s about as smart as making Superman Returns a gay Christ parable. How’d that turn out again? So bad Warners had to beg Nolan to help them right the ship and crank out a movie before the rights revert back to the Creators estates. Hahaha.
Making Captain American Black or Asian would be like making Shaft a nerdy White guy. You could do it. But it would be monumentally stupid and PC-driven.
Purely by demographics, Whites are still the largest (and less accommodating or driven by PC as they have declined in absolute numbers in the post-OJ/Obama era). America is in fact, without question, the greatest nation on earth. Superman being made for “truth, justice, and all that” post-ironically, and post nationally, was a major flop.
The answer to declining attendance, vast sections of the audience tuning out, and declining sales for DVDs and the like is not more PC-driven Avatars (you can only do the first gigantic effects driven 3-D movie once). Its hitting the unabashed patriotism that people feel.
Captain America after all was created by a young Jewish artist frustrated that America remained neutral against the Axis. Frank Miller noted that Cap punching out Hitler was what the character was for, and the craven fear and PC that Hollywood has for jihadis and the like has left proxy superheroes impotent against real enemies who want to drop airliners on Detroit by blowing up their crotches.
Real life resembles a comic book while Comics have been turned into self-loathing parodies of PC.
Make Cap as unafraid of his patriotism as the two Batman movies by Nolan were (that did well) because that’s who the character IS. Make him that corn-fed skinny Iowan idealist kid who wants to fight evil.
[Milestone has tons of Black-created and Black character comics. No one really cares about them, because Superheros appeal to nerdy White guys dreamed them up in the first place and form their core audience. DC has in it's mainstream comics Black Lightning, Cyborg, etc. who are Black. Wonder Woman, Star Girl, etc. are female superheroes. Marvel has Spider-Girl. So there are plenty of non-White guy superheroes. The folks who created, decades ago, and love the characters now are White guys almost without exception. Blaming White male dominance in Comics is like calling for a Quota of White guys in the NBA, or Rap Music. The NBA and Rap is far more uniformly Black than Comic book superheroes are uniformly White and Male. Let's have Cap Black the day after the NBA has half the players White, and half the rappers on BET are White guys from Seattle wearing plaid.]
Once again whiskey takes three times longer than anyone to make stupid, uninteresting, racist points (post OJ/Obama era? Only a racist would connect those two and call it an era. You never hear anyone say the post Manson family/Nixon era). Why does this pinhead called whiskey think he’s some sort of intellectual on race when he’s really just a whiny, insecure bigot desperately, pathetically whistling in the dark? Go watch Faux News whiskey and fantasize about Sarah Palin. Stop boring the rest of us with your insipid musings.
you’re an idiot though if you think making cap america black, asian, gay, or whatever is remotely acceptable…but hey feel free if you can actually find a studio retarded enough to burn tens of millions of dollars to make a few unhappy PC malcontents briefly happy (or rather less angry than normal)
Um…. Im Black and I own 7215 comics and 40 graphic novels.
Um….since the majority of this film is an origin story and set during the 40′s during World War 2. Your idea doesn’t work. Much as I’d like to see Michael Jai White or someone else play Cap…it ain’t gonna happen.
I’d count myself lucky with the Conan casting, but we haven’t seen how that will play out yet.
As a young BLACK man myself I have to say this is the worst idea I have heard in the Captain America rumor mills. If America was ready for Captain America to be black, Will Smith would have been handed the part long ago like the rumors stated 1 1/2 year ago. In America, your everyman is white. Think about it Captain America and The MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.
So Krasinkski is or isn’t out? Lots of sites linking to this one reporting he’s out, while lots of other sites are reporting he’s the front runner…
The sites that are reporting him as a front runner are lame ass gossip sites that are rarely right about anything.
So there’s no word on Ryan McPartlin?
McPartlin would kickass. He is totally a cornfed mid-america dude. BTW, is that you Kyle?
Josh Holloway.
He’s a man, with a twinkle in his eye, who can act.
He’s nearing 40. Captain America is not middle-aged. And there’s yet to be proof that he can play anyone who’s not Sawyer.
Since when does the age of the actor have to be close to the age of the role? Some complicated characters look awfully older anyways…
I LIKE this idea. And Lost is ending, so he’s free, no?
Krasinski’s wooden set of teeth and permanently chapped lips scare and distract me. I really hope they find someone else.
He’s got weird lady-torso. I can’t handle his shirtless scenes on Lost; I can’t imagine seeing his girlish figure blown up on the big screen. Pass.
um…. why are u checking him out?