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Add Neal McDonough to the list of cast for Captain America: The First Avenger, the Joe Johnston-directed film that will star Chris Evans. McDonough is in talks to play Dum Dum Dugan. Marvel Studios was playing dum on it. Production starts in July in the U.K. and the film will be released by Paramount Pictures July 22, 2011. Hugo Weaving plays the villain, Red Skull. Sebastian Stan and Hayley Atwell have also been set. McDonough is available, as he famously exited the series Scoundrels because of his reluctance to do love scenes.
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Freakin awesome!!!!!!! What a brilliant casting move!!! I’m glad there is someone over at Marvel paying attention to this guy!
I agree, smart move this will bring in all the chicks and all the cheese dicks (watching Platoon) to see this movie three or for times that summer.
Dum Dum Dugan isn’t Captain America’s sidekick (that’s Bucky), he’s a first-mate to Nick Fury, who will probably (much to the shock of the average movie-goer) be alive and played by Sam Jackson during the WWII sequences.
Done. Done. and Done. Only other role I would love to have seen him in is Captain America himself. But Dum Dum Dugan is just as fantastic. And I agree with Henry – this guy is long overdue for super stardom!
Yeah, good move, this guy is amazing! I might go watch this movie just to see him in it! Great, thanks!!
Go Neal!!!!
Love Neal, but still confused over his choices regarding his characters. The ADA on Boomtown was a flawed son of a bitch cheater. Maybe the material has to be really good for him to do love scenes… or something morally ambiguous.
Marvel is paying almost nothing for these supporting roles. McDumDumagh will be luck to score $90,000 (gross!!!) for the almost four-month shoot.
Still it is good that he’s working when most aren’t.
90,000??? That is practically scale. This movie is going to be huge. Anything less than 200,000 is unacceptable. Marvel is so cheap.
Maybe he won’t make much now so but if the subsequent Nick Fury movies are made, Neal will be a big part of that and will get a bigger payday. Yay for Neal.
There is only one problem here… He doesn’t do nude scenes…
This guy? Seriously? HE SUCKS!!! Just lost my 12 bucks.
OK so let me get this straight. According to the other article, he won’t kiss on camera, but he’s willing to do violence.
He’ll murder on screen, but won’t kiss.
Something’s very wrong with that.
Give me a break Bill C: If you aren’t going to see this movie because of this casting, you were never going to see it in the first place.
WRONG!!! Casting the right person makes all the difference. This guy is horrible.
Got get ‘em Neal! What a great project
And personally, my husband wouldn’t mind if I played a serial killer, if I were an actress, but he sure wouldn’t like it if I were rolling around the sheets with some co-star! Acting or not. Hubby won’t like it if I feverishly made out with another guy! Hello Brad & Angelina…. the list is a mile long of married co-stars who fell for one another after filming a romantic movie together. Good on Neal for not even wanting to go that route!
Judging from the promos, to exit Scoundrels is one of his best career decisions.
Spot on !! Better to have a supporting role in a Marvel film than a lead in a crappy ABC summer series that probably won’t complete its run.
I think it’s refreshing to see an actor who stands his moral ground in Hollywood. It takes a big man to say he wont strip or to love scenes to make a paycheck. Kudo’s to you Mr. McDonough. And I pray that your career begins to boom because of your decision and not in spite of it.
This guy couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag. He will be perfect for this movie.
neal mcdonough isn’t the look of dum dum from the comics (where he’s a big guy with a red mustache) but that’s the least troubling thing i think
everything that’s been leaked sounds so completely far off what the comic is…cap as a uso attraction because the military doesn’t want to put him in the field? seriously?
they should be using mark millar’s ultimates take (especially since the ultimate universe nick fury was modeled on sam jackson), mixed in with the classic simon/kirby origin (updated obviously)…i’m trying to take a wait-and-see attitude, but it’s not sounding so hot right now
Ok, let’s put it this way for people who has a hard time understanding this:
Movie killing = FAKE (no one really dies)
Movie kissing = REAL (lips touch, people get ideas… Brad, Angelina…….)
It really is just that simple. Why do people have such a hard time wrapping their heads around that concept?!
And I saw a bunch of the Scoundrels previews, and wow, I hope David James Elliott’s wife is comfortable with all that……..
why wont he do nude scenes? is he a ‘nevernude’? you cant blue screen those cutoffs out.
Love this guy. Five years ago he would have been perfect for Cap. As it is, seeing him suit up with a submachine gun an takin out some “Ratzis” will give this film an extra point in the good column. Hopefully Joe Johnson is wathing a lot of his “Rocketeer” for inspiration! Fingers crossed for this one!
Shawty dawn drawp drawz fo dat nut-nut jawnt.
Anyone else besides me wondering how strange it’ll be to see a black Sgt. Fury leading a white platoon of commandos during WW II? There is a suspension of disbelief and outright ridiculousness in trying to rewrite an era as more socially-forward than it was. What about Gabriel Jones? All of a sudden he becomes a redundant character, that’s if they show all of Fury’s Howling Commandos. This is why Will Smith as Jim West didn’t work, as you had to accept the film existed in a totally alternate reality than the one in our history books.
Dum Dum Dugan is a large, chunky redheaded bloke with Teddy Roosevelt’s moustache. The clean-shaven, blonde white guy who doesn’t wear the Captain America outfit is Clay Quartermain. And teh other clearn-shaven blonde white guy who doesn’t wear the Captain America outfit is John Walker, the
Judge DreddUSAgent. How hard is it to keep these things straight?BTW, for those comics geeks who have a problem with a black Nick Fury in WW2, there *is* a precedent in Marvel Comics, and that is Isaiah Bradley, the Tuskeegee-esque guinea pig for the Super Soldier serum from the revisionist “The Truth” miniseries (well-written by I Forget Who, but atrociously drawn by Kyle Baker) a few years back. If Favreau & Company are paying attention, then it’s just a matter of giving the movies’ Fury the backstory of Isaiah Bradley and having the Infinity Formula (that gave the comics’ Fury his semi-immortality/hard-to-kill-ness) be the prototype for the SuperSoldier Serum and voila, the black Nick Fury could still be the leader of the Howling Commandos during WW2. Okay, with racists in the mid-to-upper echelons of the military at the time giving all the credit to, say, Dugan — or even Captain America.
— Rob
The thing that stood out more than the casting rumor is that the film is shooting in the U.K. Captain America is going to be filmed, at least partly, in the U.K.? I’m not a jingoist, but I would have preferred if THIS movie was completely filmed in the good ole U.S.A.
Neal is a talented actor, did wonders in Band of Brothers.
If he were a little younger, he would be the perfect choice for Captain America himself.
He’s a good actor who has shown great depth in his ability. Much respect to his morals and dedication to his beliefs. It’s a rare and unfortunately misunderstood characteristic in modern society.