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...

By JoshWilding - Mar 05, 2024 02:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Captain America

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 -
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?
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.
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