Comments on: ‘Captain America’ Sequels Can’t Be Set In WW2; Chris Evans Says “He’s In The Modern World” By Pic 1

By: rf

rf — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:57 +0000

It will be interesting to see the dynamic between the two of them. Robert Downey Jr. smashes and steals every bit of scene he\’s in, so I really don\’t know how they are going to pull of having a triple A star and well, Evans. I liked the guy in the movie, but really, you get RDJr in there and its a killer. The Avengers director will have a full plate on his hands to pull this rabbit out of the hat.

By: Russell Brandt

Russell Brandt — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:57 +0000

Captain America 2 being set in the present could actually be interesting if done right. It would be good if the film is based on current affairs and aside from fighting rogues gallery villains, Captain America also battles a real world threat such as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Iranian extremists, North Korean extremists, Somali pirates, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, etc.

By: Glenn Morris

Glenn Morris — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:57 +0000

Feels wrong plugging my site here but I interviewed Chris for Flixist and asked if it would be New York where Steve Rogers adjusts to the modern world in Cap 2. The answer is essentially \”They have to!\” while at the same time \”I can\’t say.\”

So similar to Wolverine and Japan, I think Chris will be pushing for that NY skyline story.

By: Abner

Abner — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:57 +0000

Really sick of RDJ\’s verbal sparring with everyone being called acting.

By: jd

jd — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:57 +0000

Possible Spoiler: In the original Stan Lee-Jack Kirby comics, Captain America was flung into Arctic waters by a Nazi superweapon in the final days of WWII and spent the fifties in suspended animation, frozen in the ice (Stan and Jack maybe having thought that up after catching The Thing From Another World on tv one night). The super soldier serum supposedly kept him alive; then in the early 60s the Sub-Mariner found Cap frozen in a block of ice being, uh, worshipped by Eskimos (okay, admittedly it gets pretty stupid at this point, although I suppose it\’s vaugly possible HP Lovecraft fan Stan Lee lifted that from The Call Of Chthulhu.)

Namor, for some reason I can\’t remember, tossed Cap\’s icecube into the ocean, and when he thawed out he was rescued by somebody else I can\’t remember; and then spent the next few years angsting in the finest Silver Age Marvel style, spending a lot of his time out of costume staring off at the Manhattan skyline with thought balloons that said things like, \”My whole world has vanished! Everything has changed!\” You look at how depressed Cap, The Thing, Spider Man, Daredevil, The Hulk and The X Men were and sometimes you think they should have had support groups instead of super teams….

Anyway, sounds like they\’re going to use that basic idea, updated to the present and presumably minus the Sub Mariner.