First Avenger Directed by Joe Johnston

[Saint]

I have no feelings towards Union Jack (simply not familiar with the character), but I imagine he could serve a purpose illustrating that the Captain America concept was strong enough to inspire imitations.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I think Union Jack (& any other characters like him) should be saved for a sequel.

 

[Chewy]

I was reading through the Green Lantern threads and someone had posted a link to the LatinoReview guy's twitter, where he posted that Gosling turned down the Hal role. Look what that LR guy posted on his twitter about 40 minutes ago:

So such & such big name screenwriter might get hired to write CAPTAIN AMERICA? Oh really? Cool, stay tuned folks.

SOURCE

Looks like Marvel liked one of the pitches they heard and the LR guy knows who it is.

 

[Congo Jack]

I've copied the information from Marvel's website (using both MU and Ultimate Cap) and adapted it slightly to form the basis of how I would write the Captain America screenplay.

Steve Rogers grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940's, a scrawny kid. He attempted to enlist in the army around the time the United States entered World War II only to be turned away due to his poor constitution. A U.S. officer offered Rogers an alternative way to serve his country by being a test subject in project, Operation: Rebirth, a top secret defence research project designed to create physically superior soldiers. Steve voluntarily underwent six months of injections of the formula dubbed the "Super Soldier Serum", surgery, and other experimental treatments supervised by Dr. Abraham Erskine, becoming the world’s first genetically-enhanced super-soldier.

After the assassination of Dr. Erskine, the authorities seemed unable to replicate the process. Roger was re-imagined as a superhero who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a propaganda symbol to counter Nazi Germany's head of terrorist operations, the Red Skull. Clad in stars-and-strips military fatigues, he became “Captain America“, his image used to bolster Allied recruiting. Rogers made friends with James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. Barnes lost his father (a soldier during WWII), and was adopted by Camp Lehigh. Barnes underwent rigorous training and was assigned to be Captain America's sidekick

Throughout World War II Captain America undertook numerous covert operations, often accompanied by Bucky. In the closing days of World War II in 1945, he led an assault on a base where the Nazis were launching a prototype nuclear bomb at the White House. As the rocket launched, Rogers and Barnes climbed aboard and wrecked its guidance system, causing it to explode seconds later. Steve was thrown clear into the icy Arctic Ocean. Neither his body or Bucky's were found, and both were presumed dead.

Rather than dying, Rogers seemingly fell into suspended animation and was found decades later by a team of marine biologists.

As written, it's missing a second act - I think the movie should take time to explore Captain America meeting Bucky, them becoming friends, Rogers' leadership and battlefield prowess and importantly, showing what a dangerous little bastard that Bucky is.

For the third act, it needs a villian and I think it was Zemo in the books but for the purpose of the movie I'd use Red Skull. Show a climactic battle between them before Cap and Bucky try to diffuse the bomb.

Obviously I'm no screenwriter (I hear you *gasp*!) but this is the way I'd go about it.

 

[Congo Jack]

I was reading through the Green Lantern threads and someone had posted a link to the LatinoReview guy's twitter, where he posted that Gosling turned down the Hal role. Look what that LR guy posted on his twitter about 40 minutes ago:
SOURCE

Looks like Marvel liked one of the pitches they heard and the LR guy knows who it is.

Oh well looks like I'm out. Great news I hope there's a announcment made soon. Latino Review are normally accurate aren't they?

 

[Chewy]

Oh well looks like I'm out. Great news I hope there's a announcment made soon. Latino Review are normally accurate aren't they?

Yep. Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Brandon Routh - they reported all of them. If they say something's done or close to done, then that's that.

 

[FaT_tONle]

So LR only has word on the screen writer according to them and nothing else? Better than nothing... we need that bombshell news report to drop before the year is over... I am dying for an update. Damn writers strike cost us a whole freaking year.

 

[GNR]

I always though the writers of Iron Man were in the running to write this?They had a few interviews at spashpage mtv where they mentioned Tony's dad being involved with the origin of another Marvel hero who is going to get big screen treatment with them as writers.

 

[GNR]

I always though the writers of Iron Man were in the running to write this?They had a few interviews at splashpage mtv where they mentioned Tony's dad being involved with the origin of another Marvel hero who is going to get big screen treatment with them as writers.

 

[chiefchirpa]

There shouldn't be any big problem on the writing side for Marvel movie. Even if the primary writing team is average, there will be "cavalry" in the form of veteran comic writers who can infuse comic authenticity. Like in Iron Man 2, they had Matt Fraction (current Iron Man writer) helping. Thor had J. Michael Straczynski writing some part. Similarly in the case of Captain America, Ed Brubaker will be the writers' helper.

 

[darthlaney]

I hope JJ brings Hugo Weaving with him from Wolfman to play Red Skull

 

[RAMORE]

I know most everybody has seen it but just in case from the front page we have writers people these are exciting times:

Markus and McFeely Penning Captain America
Source:The Hollywood Reporter November 18, 2008


Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are in negotiations to write Marvel Studios' First Avenger: Captain America, to be directed by Joe Johnston and produced by Marvel's Kevin Feige.

Created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for Timely Comics, Captain America is the heroic alter ego of Steve Rogers, who is rejected by the Army for being too sickly and undergoes an experiment that takes him to the pinnacle of human form. Paired with an indestructible shield, he becomes a symbol of the war effort, fighting Nazis and villainous scientists like the Red Skull.

In modern times, the character starred in his own long-running comic series and also was a charter member of Marvel's superteam, the Avengers.

Marvel's "Captain America" will be a World War II-set movie, and the character will appear in modern day-set The Avengers.

Markus and McFeely worked on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and its sequel, "Prince Caspian." The duo also wrote HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."

By the way I love the director they picked

 

[cerealkiller182]

the writers are pretty good.

I mean the Narnia movies had an epic scope, and Life and Death of Peter Sellers was brilliant

 

[Timstuff]

Am I the only one who hopes that they drop the "First Avenger" portion of this movie's title, or at least for the US release? It seems really pointless to me to have it tacked on, because everyone is just going to call it "Captain America" anyway. Are they afraid some movie goers will confuse it with ANOTHER Captain America movie? As far as I know there was only that POS TV movie many years back, and no-one remembers that anyway.

If they're worried that there are some America-hating countries out there that won't go see a movie called "Captain America," then they can jolly well call it "First Avenger" when it gets released internationally. However, it seems pretty stupid to call it that here. I mean, they didn't call Spider-Man "Web Slinger: Spider-Man" or Iron Man "Metal Avenger: Iron Man" or anything stupid like that. "First Avenger" simply makes Captain America's title sound more convoluted than it needs to, and is only going to confuse people when they look for the movie in a video store that lists movies alphabetically.

 

[BlackLantern]

I'd be fine with "Captain America: The First Avenger"

 

[jab1118]

They are calling it First avenger because they are using it as a 100 million dollar hour and forty minute trailer for avengers

 

[marcvader]

Sure as hell better be longer than 1 hour 40 minutes..

 

[Rage]

I think they need to drop the first avenger title too. If you do enough foreshadowing in the other Marvel movies, like they did with TIH, there should be no need to hype this as "The First Avenger"

Rage

 

[Ronny Shade]

the writers are pretty good.

I mean the Narnia movies had an epic scope, and Life and Death of Peter Sellers was brilliant

Except the Narnia movies were cartoonish, shallow and boring

 

[cerealkiller182]

Am I the only one who hopes that they drop the "First Avenger" portion of this movie's title,

No, Ive always hated it

Except the Narnia movies were cartoonish, shallow and boring

Never saw them, just going by the look of the trailers and pedigree of the books. The scope of them felt big, and I hoped Cap would be the same way.

 

[Ronny Shade]

The books were good. The movies were not.

Epicness was lost.

 

[BlackLantern]

Narnia movies blow....Those got made because Disney was tired of WB raping them year in and year out with the Harry Potter franchise....

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Another decission that has me less than confident that the movie will be anything more than okay...

 

[BlackLantern]

I can't blame any director for the content of and Disney live-action film, Disney is basically up the productions *** with a microscope.....

 

[Ronny Shade]

I'm sure this movie won't be terrible.

Actually, I'm not