Feature: Keeping Tabs on The First Avenger: Captain America movie.

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First Avenger: Captain America
Release Date: 22 July 2011 [USA]

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Recent News and Some Rumors


2/26/2010
Captain America put on hold, due to Director Joe Johnston's underperforming Wolfman movie, reports are coming in the delay is due to changing of directors.
source:Remingtons
Oooops... Captain America not delayed Marvel Studios tells us production is very much on track. Remember, earlier this week it was reported that the studio started test screenings for the role of Steve Rogers/Captain America this week.
source:Marvel.com


2/25/2010
Director Joe Johnston briefly walked away from the Captain America movie because of budget issues.
source:Deadline Hollywood

2/24/2010
-Deadline.com releases Director Joe Johnston and Marvel's "Official" Captain America wishlist.
source:deadline.com

2/23/2010
-Joe Johnston Interview
+“We wanted to tell the origin story of the character,” Johnston explains in the interview, “but you really only get one chance to tell the story. We debated back and forth whether or not it should be period of present day. We finally realized that if we do it in present day, it’s going to be really impossible to go back and tell his origin story. So we said, ‘Let’s bite the bullet and tell how Captain America came to be.’ I mean, studios and money people just think, ‘Oh, period, this is going to cost us more and this is going to be harder to sell,’ but I think, ‘Well, look at Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was 1936, about as period as you can get, and everything worked on that film. I mean, it was just virtually flawless from beginning to end. Not that we’re using that as our blueprint, but we’re certainly inspired by the hopefulness of what they did on that picture.”
source: Earthsmightiest.com


2/20/2010
-Rumor Robert Buckley cast as Captain America. He stars in TV's One Tree Hill.

Mark Millar comic scribe of Marvel's the Ultimates has this to say about the upcoming Captain America And Avengers Movies, and whether he pitched his Ultimates Run as an Avengers Movie.
+Well, they've already admitted they're doing it that way. Joe Johnston has said publically, the Captain America movie is going to be the first issue of Ultimates, plus the origin story, and then the Avengers movie will be material from Ultimates #2-#13, and maybe Ultimates Volume 2. I'm not speaking out of school, they've publically said this. And I'm flattered by it.
+I literally don't see a cent, though, so it's not in my interests to try and make it a pitch, and convince them to base the movie on my thing. People have asked if I'm pissed off, but I just see it as a compliment. When you do work for hire, you have to realise you won't see money for that. If you've done a good job, and it reaches other mediums, then great.
+I think what would make me unhappy is if I'd been like Jack Kirby or something, and only worked for Marvel, then saw them making billions and me only getting my pay 20 years before. That would be bleak. But that's why, hopefully, current creators realise that in the end, your stuff will be used, and you will not be paid, so be smart and do some creator-owned stuff. Ennis, Ellis, we all do it as well as our Marvel stuff.
source: Den of Geek

2/17/2010
-One of the rumored frontrunner for Captain America, Ryan McPartlin, is spotted on the premiere of Joe Johnston's the Wolfman. Does this mean anything considering that Johnston is directing Captain America?
source:Contact Music

2/12/2010
-Cinemaspy is reporting that Chris Pine is rumored as another front runner for the role of Captain America
#c:I'm unsure on having Captain Kirk as Captain America, Pine just doesn't seems like a Steve Roger for me.



02/10/99
-PG13 Rating
-New draft of script - "Better, tighter, a little more action, more character stuff, a subplot that - I don't want to say anymore. But it is great."-Johnston
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-Movie will have ties to Thor and Iron Man
-An origin story that ends in modern day and ties in with the Avengers movie.
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-Movie will feature WWII superteam "The Invaders." They will be six (6) members strong, and will be in the second half of the movie.
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-Captain America is placed in the USO circuit which explains his colorful costume
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– Captain America to be played by an American
– Johnston needs to have casting done by March 1
– Johnston's shooting Captain America in HD and says if they do 3D it’ll be in post
– Says he’s going to shoot Captain America in a different way than any of the other Marvel pictures have been shot
– They’re going to shoot most of it in the UK because the movie takes place in Europe
– Regarding casting a movie star to play Captain America…Johnston says he wants to discover an unknown and surround him with more prominent name
– Red Skull is going to be the villain.
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Directors, Writers and Casts


Director: Joe Johnston
#c:Many of Johnston's work are period pieces which will fit well with the setting for the first Captain America Movie. Notable works are: The Wolfman (opens Friday), Hidalgo and a masked superhero in The Rocketeer.

Scriptwriters:Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
Notable works: Narnia series
-#c:Yikes!

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Captain America Hopefuls
Here are the rumored contenders for the role:

Robert Buckley	Chris Pine	Ryan McPartlin	Jensen Ackles	Chad Michael Murray
Chace Crawford	John Krasinski	Scott Porter	Mike Vogel	Michael Cassidy
Garrett Hedlund	Wilson Bethel

Fanvotes as of Feb.27: Jensen Ackles is still undeterred with 39.04% of the votes a slight increase from the previous poll update. Trailing behind him is Ryan McPartlin(18.20%) and Chris Pine(17.98%)
#c: Much love for Ackles in this site

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Captain America CBM 101
For they who are not one of us :)

Brief Comic History:
Captain America is a superhero that appears in Marvel Comics. The character's first appearance is in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). He was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America's alter ego is Steve Rogers, Rogers was a sickly young man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum in order to aid the United States war effort. Captain America wears a costume that has an American flag motif, he has an indestructible shield which he uses defensively and offensively.


Live CBM History:
(1944)
Captain America's first foray into live media was in 1944, he was the first Marvel Comics character adapted into another medium. In this portrayal his alter ego is a district attorney named Grant Gardner, the serial removes many important elements of the character, such as his trademark shield and his sidekick Bucky Barnes.


(1979)
The character next reappears in two (2) TV Movies that aired on CBS title Captain America and Captain America II: Death too soon. The character differs significantly from the comics in both his origin and his operations. For instance, Steve Rogers is a character in contemporary times whose father was a 1940s government agent. The very patriotic attitude of Steve's father earned him the nickname Captain America, and his father is spoken of as having been murdered. Rogers, a former Marine now making what little living he makes as an artist, was inspired by this story to sketch a super-hero. After receiving potentially fatal injuries in an accident, he was administered an experimental chemical called the FLAG—Full Latent Ability Gain—formula (at one point referred to as a "super-steroid") which not only saves his life but also enhances his body with heightened strength and reflexes.


(1990)
The 1990 film Captain America, stars Matt Salinger, and the movie was shot in Yugoslavia. It depicted the creation of Captain America from weak soldier Steve Rogers, his fight in World War II and subsequent apparent death, his being found decades later frozen in ice, and his realization and comprehension that our enemies from the war are now our allies, as well as the hero's battle against the Red Skull, who in the film is an Italian fascist rather than a German Nazi.


View Gallery:Different Faces of Captain America

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