Captain America Timeline

[MattBearPig]

Considering that the Avengers movie is out mere months after Captain America, I say do a solo WWII movie and then thaw him in the Avengers.

 

[Dangerous]

The entire film should be set during WWII, that's who Cap is that's where he comes from.
The end of the film should be him being frozen.

 

[Rac]

^ Agreed.

 

[GhostPoet]

WWII all the way through the film would be a mistake. Sure...fans would love it. But a period piece (at least in terms of era) won't attract the teen crowd and college group....not nearly as much as a modern day theme.

Not to mention the fact you'd have to have a sequel just to have Cap learning about the present time and trying to adjust. No time to do that when the Avengers film is already set for a date. (I can't believe i'm saying Avengers film, WOO!!!)

You CAN'T have him trying to adapt to a new time DURING the Avengers film...then the Avengers film becomes more another Captain American film as most of the time would be spent on Cap learning the new enviorment...neglecting all the other characters in the process.

 

[Captain Planet!]

How about we open with Cap, Bucky, and some other soldiers on their way home in a plane, Cap reflects on all the things he's done in the war through flashbacks, the plane is shot and explodes, some more flashbacks, then when all the flashbacks are over we see him fall into the ocean. Word gets out that Captain America has been killed, the nation mourns his loss. Then we see a vast ocean with icebergs floating about, we zoom into one icebreg and we see Cap, frozen in time, and then we hear people breaking away the ice.

Of course, it could be that he gets un-frozen in the middle of the film and have the other half of it deal with him not fitting in with the world of today, but I think the almost all WWII story would make a much deeper and powerful movie.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

I like it just don't show him frozen... or show him frozen in a scene after the credits.

 

[anthonytheghost]

less than 50/50 maybe 25-45 minutes in the past.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

what!? Why do you say that?

 

[Captain Planet!]

I like it just don't show him frozen... or show him frozen in a scene after the credits.

Well, only 1/3 of movie goers stay after the credits... and it would be better business to end on a cliffhanger, then more people will go see Avengers to find out what happens.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

So has the WWII for the entire film been confirmed?

 

[Scooter]

Ideally, Cap would get two films of his own (released within a year of one another): the first, a period piece, detailing his birth and culminating in his "death"; the second, showing him adjusting to the modern world, etc.

Then we move on to The Avengers or The Ultimates or The Ultimate Avengers or whatever the're planning on doing. But Marvel will undoubtedly **** it up and shortchange the characters by cramming as much content into as little time as possible.

 

[Scooter]

How about we open with Cap, Bucky, and some other soldiers on their way home in a plane, Cap reflects on all the things he's done in the war through flashbacks, the plane is shot and explodes, some more flashbacks, then when all the flashbacks are over we see him fall into the ocean. Word gets out that Captain America has been killed, the nation mourns his loss. Then we see a vast ocean with icebergs floating about, we zoom into one icebreg and we see Cap, frozen in time, and then we hear people breaking away the ice.

This is kind of how I had envisioned his first film going, with the bulk of the film unfurled in a recurring flashback structure, with the final act detailing the "present" (and final) mission for Cap and crew, culminating in his apparent death somewhere in the Arctic.