A good World War II Captain America needs two things: his shield and a
sidekick. Now he has the sidekick (and I’m sure there are already
mock-ups of the shield laying around The First Avenger: Captain America‘s
production offices) – Sebastien Stan has been cast as Bucky Barnes.
Stan was recently seen in Hot Tub Time Machine,
where he played the head of the douchebag Ski Patrol guys.
Bucky
was famous as one of the only characters in comics who stayed dead…
until he came back to life in 2006. Bucky was originally Cap’s gee-whiz
teen sidekick, but was recently retconned into a cold blooded killing
machine – while Cap was the smiling face of the red, white and blue,
Bucky was doing wet work on the side. It’s unclear if this is the
version of Bucky we’ll be seeing, but since that version became the very
popular Winter Soldier, I would count on it.
And I would definitely count on it
because Stan has signed a five or six picture deal. Bucky almost
certainly dies at the end of The First Avenger: Captain America,
so expect him to come back as The Winter Soldier should there be a
sequel.
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Is this an April Fools? It seems plausible but who knows…If it's true, whatever. I'm int he skeptical camp until I have reason not to be. While I don't hate Chris Evans, I cannot imagine him commanding the Avengers and I don't really care to see any Avengers film in which Cap isn't the obvious choice as leader. I would also hope they would wait at least one or even two sequels before bringing the WInter soldier into it.
April Fools posted on the second of April, not even Devin would stoop so low.
WINTER SOLDIER!!!! The Retconned Bucky is one of the best things that has happened in Marvel in the past 20 years. If there are scenes of Cap doing the beatings but Bucky slicing throats and doing all the dirty spec ops work, I will blow my load over Kevin Feige's face.
Thank god for that. Thanks Devin, you're like Santa
I hope they treat Bucky the same way Clash of the Titans treated the owl. At best, the character deserves to be marginalized and mocked. I would just leave him out
@#5: Is Bucky really that much more ridiculous as a character than Captain America? Really?
The people bagging on Bucky probably haven't read a Cap comic in the last 5 years, or EVER, most likely. He's been one of Marvel's best characters since coming back, his return made sense, and it's led to a whole bunch of really good, new Golden Age-era stories that have retroactively made the old Bucky into a serious threat. That, and he himself has been a really interesting Captain America in Steve Rogers' absence and for Rogers to be more of a mentor now that HE'S back too. If you're someone who's not big on superhero comics, Ed Brubaker's Captain America run could really change your mind.
OK, 10th try with the fucking verification now…
If they think Cap is going to get anywhere near five or six films, they're all fucking stoned. If they hit three solo it will be a miracle.
This movie is turning into Captain Ken Doll.
I really didn't want this movie to be at-best-iffy. I wanted to believe in Joe, and Jeremy Renner's Cap, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Bucky, but every new piece of information just seems to push it further and further down towards Matt Salinger territory. That being said, Hugo fucking Weaving virtually guarantees some amount of screen time to be awesome (and, not to beat a dead horse, but can you please fucking fix the fucking verification all-fucking-ready?)…
@#1: I have a suspicion That the powers that be plan to have Iron Man lead The Avengers, what with RDJ being the oldest actor, and the one with the most gravitas.
Well yeah, i'm sure Iron Man will be the leader, but to me…that just isn't right…he's Captain America for christsakes. The Winter Soldier was the best resurrection of a dead character in the Marvel U. Not only that but whenever they do a story with young Bucky, they actually write him with some respect. So now whether you read Bucky now as the new Cap, or Bucky then as Cap's sidekick, he still kicks ass.
Is anyone even excited that they're making COMIC BOOK MOVIES anymore?
I mean, bitch all you want but I can't imagine that the 9-year old versions of all of us wouldn't be shitting their pants with joy for the past ten years or so.
It makes perfect sense if Captain America isn't the team leader right away. The Avengers were already a team when they found him, and they didn't hand leadership over to him JUST because he was Captain America. Maybe, at some point, Iron Man can become incapacitated, and Cap can take the lead, but there's no sense in handing the team over right away to a guy that's been frozen for 65 years. The Cap movie can be the origin, the Avengers movie can cover his adjustment to modern day, and in whichever sequel happens first, Cap can take caharge and become more like the Steve Rogers that's been running around the Marvel Universe since the 60's. If handled right, he can have a pretty good arc over the course of the film series.
@13 and 14: Ditto. It's a good time to be a geek.
As each day passes I get even more giddy knowing The Avengers movie is going to be a reality. I really think Marvel is doing a superb job tying all the characters together through their solo projects. While a lot of people may not agree with some of the casting (Chris Evans) I'm looking forward to them no matter what!
This film just died for me. Teenage sidekick? the only way this could look more faggy and pedo is if the pope was in it.
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