According to Deadline, McDonough is in talks to play the Howling Commando's hardman, Dum Dum Dugan....
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.
Nice pun! McDonough will be best known to CBM fans as Bison in the God awful
Street Fighter: Legend Of Chun Li, but he's actually a very good actor. I'm sure not many of us would have picked him for the role of Dum Dum,(Ted Levine and Sam Elliot were big fan favorites) but I think he could do it justice.
For anyone not up to speed on the character, here is some background..
Dugan was born in Boston, Massachusetts. During World War II, while working as a circus strongman, Dugan helps Nick Fury and Sam "Happy" Sawyer escape the Nazis during a mission recounted in issue 34. Dugan later joins the British Army, and when Sawyer is charged with creating Fury's First Attack Squad, also known as the Howling Commandos, Sawyer invites Dugan to become second in command. His exceptional strength saves the day in several of his adventures in the Sgt. Fury comic books. Later on in life he is placed in charge of internal security on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. He is a corporal.
Dum Dum Dugan is placed in charge of a SHIELD Unit coined The Godzilla Squad, charged with the task of tracking and stopping the radioactive kaiju. Over the twenty-four issue series, Dugan goes from loathing the creature's destructive tendencies to accepting the beast's existence after Godzilla saves him on numerous occasions. Dugan later recalls a long list of his greatest nightmares, one of which includes Godzilla.
Think we'l see Godzilla make a cameo?:)
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