KICK-ASS 2 Director Jeff Wadlow Pitched CAPTAIN AMERICA Film To Marvel Studios Starring Will Smith Or The Rock

KICK-ASS 2 Director Jeff Wadlow Pitched CAPTAIN AMERICA Film To Marvel Studios Starring Will Smith Or The Rock

Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow has revealed that he approached Marvel Studios about helming a Captain America movie in the late 2000s, but wanted to see either Will Smith or The Rock take on the role...

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By JoshWilding - Mar 05, 2024 02:03 PM EST
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Kick-Ass 2 struggled to live up to the high bar set by its predecessor and filmmaker Jeff Wadlow's career suffered, as a result. He was attached to many high-profile projects before its release - including X-Force and Masters of the Universe - only for none of them to come to fruition. 

However, long before boarding the Kick-Ass franchise, Wadlow pitched a Captain America movie to Marvel Studios! 

He dropped that bombshell during a recent interview with Alex Zane, sharing his hope to make another superhero movie and revealing just how different his take on Steve Rogers would have been. 

"Absolutely. I would kill - kill - to make a big superhero movie," Wadlow says in the video below. "I've gotten very close on a few. After Iron Man came out in 2008, I called up my manager and was like, 'You've got to get me in at Marvel. I don't know what they're doing next, but that movie was such a game-changer, I want to go in and pitch.'"

"I thought, at the time, they'd never in a million years do a Captain America movie. I came up with a Captain America pitch...needless to say, I think my pitch was too far afield from their intentions."

"Part of my thesis was that Captain America shouldn't be a blonde white guy. That's an Aryan idea," he added. "'Captain America should look like Will Smith or like this wrestler named The Rock.' Ultimately, they had different plans, but 100% I would kill to make a big superhero movie."

We're sure that would have generated a lot of discussion back in the late 2000s, though Wadlow wasn't too far off the mark as the MCU finally has a Black Captain America in the form of Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson (who will take centre stage in next year's Captain America: Brave New World).

Marvel Studios considered many actors for the role of Steve Rogers, with Chris Evans ultimately agreeing to sign up to play the Star Spangled superhero. The casting was met with a little scepticism at the time, only for fans to quickly embrace his earnest, formidable take on Cap. 

The actor seemingly bid farewell to the hero with Avengers: Endgame, though Marvel Studios still hasn't revealed what became of him. There have been hints he might have died of old age, but either way, we expect him to be part of the Multiverse Saga in some way, shape, or form before it's all over. 

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 3/5/2024, 2:28 PM
I don't know who this director is but after kick ass 2 he's lucky to still have a career in whatever he does.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 3/5/2024, 2:31 PM
"Part of my thesis was that Captain America shouldn't be a blonde white guy. That's an Aryan idea,"

Add this guy to the "confirmed FN idiot" column.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 3/5/2024, 3:16 PM
@AvalonX - any blonde white guy anywhere just sitting with head in hands lol. Yikes dude
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/5/2024, 4:12 PM
@AvalonX -
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/5/2024, 4:39 PM
@AvalonX -
@MotherGooseUPus -

LORD willing, insulting isn't right.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/6/2024, 12:21 AM
@AvalonX - He clearly doesn't get the entire point of Captain America being a blonde haired, blue eyed white guy.

Hitler thought people with blonde hair and blue eyes were the "master race". So the dynamic of having one of his so called "master race" stand up and take him down is the an important part of why Steve Rogers looks the way he does.

This guy is a clown.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 3/6/2024, 3:47 AM
@CorndogBurglar - Point? There was a point? I thought he was blonde haired and blue eyed person because it was 1941, but silly me I guess.

Also, it would be ironic if he got beat by some black haired, browned person. The fact that he's aryan proves his point, it doesn't make it an ironic twist. Now Jesse Owens destroying in the olympics is ironic.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 3/6/2024, 3:49 AM
@AvalonX - You can disagree with it, but he does have a point. I don't think it was intended. They just choose the look because it's the times, there wasn't any political intentions when it came to the "aryan idea", but that doesn't mean its not there.
Radders
Radders - 3/6/2024, 8:59 AM
@EgoEgor - Equally ironc that Hitler congratulated him and shook his hand but he had to come in the back door to meet the US President
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/7/2024, 12:35 AM
@EgoEgor - "I thought he was blonde haired and blue eyed person because it was 1941"

What's that supposed to mean? Only blonde haired and blue eyed people existed in 1941? Lol

I didn't say it was ironic. But it's definitely symbolic to have someone that Hitler is saying is a master race stand up to him and be the one to take him down rather than agreeing with him and joining his cause. A perfect example of what Hitler says is the master race is standing up to him and fighting against that ideal.

I don't know what to tell you if you don't see the symbolism there.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 3/7/2024, 9:49 AM
@CorndogBurglar - "Only blonde haired and blue eyed people existed in 1941?"... Where did I say that? ... I mean, it's going to be a white guy in 1941 because it was 1941 and that was their targer demo. Stop trying to project everything.

And no, I don't believe they choose Steve Rogers as blonde and blue eyed because of symbolism. It was also easier to draw blonde hair. It's like people who say super saiyans are aryan because they turn blonde hair and blue eyed when they power up, when really the author did it because it was easier to draw/color yellow. It's that simple; hence he's white and blonde because it's not 1941; nowhere did I say only blonde white people existed.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/10/2024, 4:59 PM
@EgoEgor - Well, it isn't projecting. You literally said, "I thought he was blonde haired and blue eyed person because it was 1941"

So why not black haired and brown eyed? Why not blonde hair and green eyes? Brown hair and hazel eyes? See what I'm getting at? He doesn't have to be blonde with blue eyes "because it was 1941". Lol

But regardless, considering that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby have never really addressed why they gave him blonde hair and blue eyes, we can debate it all day and neither can prove the other wrong.

But I will say this: When Captain America's first appearance came out America hadn't entered the war yet. But Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are both Jewish men who were totally against Hitler's ideals, for obvious reasons. They were purposefully creating a character to he the anti-Hitler. He's even punching Hitler in the jaw on the cover of his very first comic.

So to think that they didn't also purposefully make him blonde with blue eyes seems a little short-sighted. Not to mention that there have been many times throughout Cap's history where Red Skull has asked him why he won't accept his Aryan heritage and join their side.

Because it's a huge slap in the face to Hitler's ideals. To have a member of his own self-proclaimed "master race" stand up and oppose him to show the world that no race should be considered superior over any other.

There's a lot of symbolism there. Maybe it wasn't intentional? Maybe Joe Simon and Jack Kirby didn't think about any of that when they created Cap? Maybe it was just simply because it's easier to draw and print blonde hair. (Never mind the fact that there were plenty of non-blonde characters all over comics at the time, including in Captain America comics...)

But considering that Jack Kirby and Joe Simon have created or co-created some of the most popular comic book characters of all time, I have a real hard time believing it was just a fluke, oversight, or just "easier".
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 3/10/2024, 5:56 PM
@CorndogBurglar - he could've been a browned eyed black haired character and I'd still say the same thing.

You're trying to give meaning onto something that merely an aesthetic choice. Do you think Barry Allen is an aryan choice, or Aquaman, or Hawkeye? They just choose it because they liked the look for Steve.

If Steve was brown haired and black eyed then you'd say "isn't it ironic that cap has brown hair and not blonde".

Him being blonde never comes up in the story, it's just visual choice and not a thematic one.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/5/2024, 2:33 PM
What a f*ckin idiot,there is only one Captain America and his name is Steve Rogers.
SteelGunZ
SteelGunZ - 3/5/2024, 2:37 PM
@marvel72 - FACT!
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 3/5/2024, 2:40 PM
@marvel72 - There have been 20 different people called Captain America. Steve was the first, and the most famous, arguably the best, but far from the only.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/5/2024, 2:46 PM
@ClintThaHamster - Skinny boy that took the super Soldier serum and became a hero that's what makes him unique and the best,he was the only one that ever mattered.

If you ask someone who Captain America is they will say Steve Rogers.

Same goes for Spider-Man, who is he? Peter Parker, no one will say Miles Morales.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 3/5/2024, 2:51 PM
@marvel72 - We agree that the route they went was the correct one. First Avenger, Winter Sodier, Civil War, Infinity War & Endgame, banger after banger. But Steve is not the only Cap in the comics, and I understand the creative decision to follow the lead of the comics and have Steve pass the torch to Sam, rather than recasting with a different Steve. You'll lose fans either way, so why not tell a more interesting story?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/5/2024, 3:08 PM
@marvel72 - LORD willing, insulting isn't right.

There's no Captain America, because he's fictional, he doesn't exist.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 3/5/2024, 3:17 PM
@marvel72 - Praise God.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/5/2024, 3:29 PM
@dagenspear - There's no God his fictional.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/5/2024, 4:38 PM
@marvel72 - That's a lie. God is very real. I have seen Him act in my life. He saved my soul, changed my heart, changed my mind, helped people through me, took care of people in my life, people I hurt before I found God. God is the only reason I was able to reconcile with my dad before he died. There is only the factually One and Only God, One and Only Jesus Christ and the One and Only Holy Spirit.

PLEASE you, and EVERYONE, if you haven't already, embrace God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. God is good. God is love. Jesus is Lord. Jesus IS coming. Your soul depends on it!

God worked through Jesus Christ to save our souls. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, and that God raised Him from the dead, repent of your sins, accept God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit into your heart and you will be saved.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, that all who believe on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth and The Life. No one comes to the Father Jehovah God but through Him.

The Holy Bible states to honor all people, love thy enemy, pray for those who persecute you, if your enemy is hungry feed him, if he is thirsty give him a drink.

Not long after I got saved I prayed to God for help understanding the Holy Bible, and that same day someone knocked on my door asking me if I wanted to understand the Bible.
braunermegda
braunermegda - 3/5/2024, 8:29 PM
@dagenspear - you touched the nerdies wound with this. People in this site are so stupid passionate about these movies or comics that they fight with blood on their eyes to defend a drawing
Kurban
Kurban - 3/5/2024, 11:10 PM
@ClintThaHamster - They should have gone the way of the other comics and passed it to Bucky, because that man has NOTHING now. Thunderbolts? Really?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/6/2024, 12:13 AM
@marvel72 - That's the most nothing argument. It's basically arguing popularity is what dictates what the character is.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/6/2024, 12:14 AM
@McMurdo - LORD willing, amen.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/6/2024, 12:18 AM
@braunermegda - I thank God for your civil response!

If someone doesn't like race changing or gender swapping, I think it's their God-given free will to do that. I'm fine with it. I don't necessarily personally like and get annoyed at people making a nothing issue out of something and playing it up like it's some moral offense.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/6/2024, 6:48 AM
@marvel72 -
Pretty much.

Captain America is Steve Rodgers
Spider-man is Peter Parker

These are the definitive articles, the ones everyone associates with the characters due to decades of story telling. Temporarily other characters have took the name, but that does not make them the character. It makes them A version of them. They will never be the original or the one people associate as being the namesake.

When you say Captain America, people will think Steve Rodgers. They won't think Captain America is Sam Wilson or Bucky Barnes because they have their own identity as Falcon and Winter Soldier.

When you say Spider-man, people will think Peter Parker. They won't think Ben Reilly, Gerry Drew or Miles Morales because they have their own identity as Scarlet Spider, Spider-Boy and Shadow Spider (Yes, that's Miles official title for his alter-ego)

Miles especially should not be labelled as Spider-man, he's entirely defined by the fact he is not Spider-man. He carves his own path. He has a different power set. He has a different upbringing. He's literally taking over the role of the cities protector because there is no Spider-man.

It's insulting to the characters development that writers are unwilling to let these characters be sold through their own monikors and instead just label them as Captain America or Spider-man to try and market them.
SteelGunZ
SteelGunZ - 3/6/2024, 11:13 AM
@marvel72 - FACTS!
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/5/2024, 2:35 PM
I get what he’s saying but I feel like that’s part of the delicious irony of the character is that Hitler’s ideal image of a blonde haired blue eyed white man is the very person who is opposing him in every way.



If we had gotten a movie about a younger Isaiah Bradley back in the day then I could have seen someone like Will Smith.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 3/5/2024, 2:40 PM
@TheVisionary25 - We could use more of Cap punching Nazis now.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/5/2024, 2:42 PM
@ClintThaHamster - yep
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 3/5/2024, 2:46 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I abhor violence generally, but I will never get tired of Richard Spencer getting punched in the head.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 3/5/2024, 3:07 PM
@ClintThaHamster - Can you really say you abhor violence then? As The Holy Bible says, "love thy enemy", "honor all people", "turn the other cheek"
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