I dunno, Evans only looks good compared to some of the more appalling choices. I still don't see him being a gritty field general-type.

Chris Evans may be the only guy in the running who can do the role justice. I really hope he takes the part.

Well, he did play a kind of "gritty general-type" in Sunshine. That said, I thought they were after an unknown? And is it not a really small wage as well?

I can deal with this. Not thrilled. He was pretty good in sunshine, and as he gets a little older maybe he grows more into the role? Anyone know how tall he is?

Fantastic!

i totally hope he takes the role. cap would probably be a better pick then a romcom with anna feris. plus out of the other names from earlier today i rather have evans.

I thought that only van wilder was allowed to double up on the marvel characters.

JOHNNY STORM CANT BE STEVE ROGERS TOO!!

chris evans was the tits in SUNSHINE and LONDON…i think he would excel in the role if he wouldnt be too offended for the peanuts that marvel is offering to pay

As someone who realizes that every single actor in Hollywood is grossly overpaid, does anyone know exactly how little Marvel is paying this guy?

please don`t say "huzzah". the douchebag little naruto crowd at my comic shop say "huzzah". i don`t think it can ever sound good…

What is all this "gritty field general" shit?

Steve Rogers was an all-American geeky weakling whose body gets morphed into that of a super-soldier by an experimental serum.

Captain America is a corn-fed rube who suddenly has to BECOME a soldier.

He's not Sgt. Rock, or even Nick Fury for that matter, for fucks sake.

The best of terrible choices. Though Sunshine was awesome until the 3rd act, I don't really remember Evans standing out in it.

Too bad they are casting younger, I alway thought Mark Valley could pull off an older Cap.

#11, you make it sound like Rogers was a country bumpkin kidnapped off the street and forced to enter the Super Soldier Program. Quite the opposite, he was a well educated individual who wanted to fight the injustice of the Third Reich. Rogers tried enlisting but was rejected. When he was approached by the government regarding the experimental serum, Rogers jumped at the chance. Often times Rogers plays the klutzy fool to avoid suspicion that he's Cap. So, I don't think "gritty" is very appropriate but the field general type sounds good to me- the leader of men!

@#9: Grossly overpaid? Are you kidding? Like maybe 00.001 percent get the non-suck bucks. Idiot.

What..? I really don't understand all this respect for a mediocre actor, for what will be another mediocre Marvel adaptation. I'd take herpes over having to pay to see those train-wreck Fantastic Four films again. Von Doom, one of the baddest motherfuckers in the Marvel Universe, turns out to be the Shocker with an inferiority complex over a scratch on his forehead. The man's face was supposed to been fucking raped, and he was a goddamn sorcerer supreme. Fuck Nip/Tuck, fuck Chris Evans, and find an unknown actor that can actually play Steve Rogers, not Captain American Eagle.

I enjoyed his work in Cellular.

Out of a field of bad choices, I guess Evans is the best. After seeing Hurt Locker though, I'd love to see Jeremy Renner in the lead role, though I've read he already turned it down.

Considering all the actors they've gone through, whether Marvel decided against them or they turned it down, maybe we have a bigger problem here. I'm thinking that maybe it's not the paycheck people are balking at, maybe it's the script. With all the talk of showtunes and dance numbers, maybe no one wants it because it's bad. I like Joe Johnson, but I get the feeling he might not have the firmest grip on the character.
That said, I'm all for Evans holding the shield.

Yeah, it could be as simple as nobody (good) wants the part, because the screenplay is a stinker and they don't have confidence that Johnston could pull it off anyway.

"ludicrous hyperbole, of course" – as if we expect anything less. Don't go changin'.

i think they should flip it and call the movie Captain America = The First Avenger. Captain American Eagle, i liked that.

I still think a young Cap is the shittiest idea ever. Say what you will about the original comic, but Cap has gone on to become the patriarch of the Marvel Universe, the leader of leaders, Marvel's Superman. It just makes zero sense for him to be a young whipper snapper when you have Stark, Fury, and Banner being these older gents. Also I'm pretty damn sure if he gets cast, they're going to want to add cocky/arrogant humor to the character. I think it'd be better if they changed the story so that an aging soldier, being made obsolete on the battlefield is given the option of being a super serum test subject. This way Cap has all kinds of battle experience, but now with a body that surpasses any younger soldiers.

No matter how I look at this, I feel like this is settling.

Didn't he play the tourch? I mean yeah it's not like those fantastic four movies were good or anything, but they're cannon anyway, what happens if they do a cross over? Lol, Pitt for Cap please.

Ed Brubaker is rewriting the script. So relax. Less cheese, more pulp and Bucky assassinating nazis.

Maybe after this supposed origin flick they'll have Mark Valley take over as Cap? Maybe?

@john<i>Ed Brubaker is rewriting the script. So relax. Less cheese, more pulp and Bucky assassinating nazis.</i> Where did you hear that? No offense but that sounds like something retarded a fan at the comic shop would say to just sound like he knows something everyone else doesn't. altho if it's true then my apologies, but i highly doubt it

COMMENT #27-If Marvel's as heavily involved with their film projects as we're being led to believe (a good thing), I wouldn't be surprised if they have the sense to actually run it by their comic writers to at least make sure it's on the right track. I know what you mean about the comic shop folks seemingly pulling stuff out of mid-air though, or at least taking the one little nugget they know about making a movie and beating it into the ground. A good example of that is Kevin Smith's draft of the Superman movie way back when. Yeah, we know he got a shot at it, but so did EVERYONE. He's just the most vocal about it and has a forum to talk about things like that, which is why they know that he was involved, but don't know the names of like the 40 other writers that had a run at it after him. COMMENT#22-You just don't know Captain America. Even older Cap isn't an OLDER Cap, at least physically. You make it sound like you don't want him to have any sort of character arc at all, like he should be the battle-hardened leader of men from day one. I think they're setting him up just fine. You'll have the origin movie where he's getting the hang of things, the Avengers movie where he has to adjust to being in a different time and place, and then in any other sequels, he can be OUR Cap, the one that's been established as Marvel's flagship character. And the casting of Evans (or anyone else) doesn't mean shit in terms of what they're going to do to the character. Actors ACT, it's what they do. If Chris Evans' intent is to just go in there and BE Chris Evans regardless of how the character is written, he wouldn't have made it this far along in the process.

@PlanBFromOuterSpace – I know that their bullpen of top writers do some consultation, like how Bendis consulted for the Iron Man movie (and I think for Thor) but. That being said it would make sense that E.B. did some consultation for the script but to say that he's STRAIGHT UP "rewriting the script" sounds REALLY farfetched

They should go with Randy Coutre. He has acted before in episodes of the unit. I would beleive him as captain america. Not some pretty faced kid.

Flame on.