The First Avenger: Captain America

Fan Footage of the New Avengers WITH Captain America

2011-09-15T16:40:00.001-07:00

The Avengers Brief Clip

2011-09-15T16:34:00.001-07:00

2011-09-15T16:31:00.000-07:00

In this summer's hit, "Captain America," there's little that Chris Evans' First Avenger couldn't do. Make impossible leaps over fire pits? Sure. Hold on tight to Nazi super planes as they rocket through the sky? Yep. But as the film finished and he wakes up from a seven decade sleep, a mesmerizingly bright Times Square blows his mind -- and gives a taste of what's to come in next summer's epic superhero ensemble.Sitting down to promote his upcoming indie drama, "Puncture," Evans touched on the mega Marvel caper, "The Avengers," due out next summer."He's in modern day, he has troubles," he says of his Captain America character. "He actually gets to have things that he might have be able to shoulder, you know what I mean? He can't just put it on his back. He's a fish out of water. Everyone knows he's dead, and he's in a foreign time, and 'The Avengers,' he gets to be a little bit darker, which is nice."Evans admits having his own misgivings about the film at the start of production, given the films massive cast; Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo and Cobie Smothers also star in the Joss Whedon-directed project."Going into it, you're like, who knows? I don't know how this is gonna go," he admitted. "There's a lot of big actors, a lot of big egos, everyone has their own thing going. I can't say enough; it couldn't have gone better. I have high hopes. I hope it's awesome."In large part, the rave reviews come from his time working with a certain co-star."I think most of my stuff is with Downey. He's just so good, man," Evans raved. "Again, I didn't know what to expect about him, either. And he just -- I'm so f*cking lucky. He was so cool. I'm not that great with press sometimes, and he was so like a mentor. He's so willing to give advice and he doesn't feel like, you'll do a take and he gives you a little thumbs up and he just makes your day. You're like, Downey just gave me a thumbs up! That just made my life. I'm like skipping to my trailer, and this guy had no idea the impact he just had. He's just such a nice guy and he was the first dude -- I've made a lot of movies with a lot of big actors -- the first guy I'd ever been on set, and he comes on set, and it was the first time I was ever like, 'Wow, that's a f*cking movie star. That is a f*cking movie star.'"As for the plot of the film, and how faithful it will be to the spirit of the classic comics series, Evans is bullish on that, too."I think they struck a really good balance. There's obviously action, you've got all these super heroes, there's gonna be constant battle, I think every ten pages, there's going to be some sort of action, but you can have all the action in the world, if you don't have some substance, you got nothing," he said of the film's writer and director. "I don't want to sh*t talk other movies, I know a lot of other movies like that where it's all action and no heart. It's not easy trying to bring all those characters together and find a story, but the best thing about Joss is that Joss is a fan, Joss is a comic book guy. It feels so nice working with a guy that is well, the people I am trying to please is Joss. Joss is one of those dudes. And if Joss is happy with the dialog, if Joss is happy with the wardrobe, if Joss is happy, then I'm happy. Because he's Comic-Con, he's one of these dudes who would be in the audience geeking out, so if he's happy, I'm happy."To read about some major clips from the film, click over to HuffPo's Comic-Con coverage.

5 Ways Caps Costume has changed for the Movie

2010-06-27T18:12:00.001-07:00

Captain America's iconic costume is as American as ... well, as American as Captain America's iconic costume! So why would you mess with it?

We're not sure, but Mike Sampson over at JoBlo has had a look at the suit Chris Evans will be wearing in the upcoming film Captain America: The First Avenger, and though he can't share any images from the costume tests, he does reveal some rather surprising changes from what you might be familiar with.

Cap's famous temple wings? Gone!

Those trademark wings that have come to represent Captain America as much as his shield? Looks like we won't be seeing them.

In fact, Cap's hood is gone, too.

Replacing it is an Army helmet that comes over Cap's eyes to give him a traditional superhero "domino mask" look, with a black strap that wraps over his ears and under his chin.

He's got an old-school utility belt

Cap's belt will be doing more than just holding up his pants—we'll be seeing a Batman-style utility belt, with brown pockets and a silver buckle.

There'll only be TWO white stripes across his torso

Instead of the alternating red and white stripes across Cap's torso, we'll see two red utility straps acting as stripes over a white base. These straps connect to to a metal loop at the midpoint of the chest and from that point, a black strap extends up to the shoulders.

And the pants have a fly!

Unlike in the comics, the pants aren't skintight—though they aren't baggy either. And the pants have a fly, so Cap can take care of other needs besides fighting World War II.

The First Avenger Wallpaper Series I

2010-06-12T14:24:00.001-07:00

As we did with the DarkKnightfiles.blogspot.com we are releasing a series of wallpapers for diehard Cap fans.

Captain America Wallpaper - Old School

2010-06-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

Fan Created Movie Poster. One of our favs.

Cap & The Howling Commandos

2010-06-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Neal McDonough has joined the cast of Captain America.

According to Deadline, the actor -- who is no stranger to playing military men having starred in Band of Brothers, The Guardian and Flags of Our Fathers -- is in talks to play Dum Dum Dugan, one of the Howling Commandos, in the Marvel movie.

McDonough's other credits include his villainous turn as M. Bison in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Traitor, Walking Tall, The Hitcher, Timeline, Minority Report and Star Trek: First Contact. His small screen credits include Boomtown, The X-Files and Desperate Housewives.

Captain America begins filming this July in the U.K.

Captain America (& Thor) Movie Logo Wallpaper

2010-06-12T14:10:00.001-07:00

Captain America Movie Wallpaper - Captain America vs. Thor: Whose movie costume is better?

2010-06-12T14:06:00.000-07:00

History of the Avengers

2008-11-13T06:07:00.001-08:00

Return of Captain America - Cap joins the Avengers - Captain America Classics 60's Cartoon

2008-11-13T05:35:00.001-08:00

A Classic Episode where Captain America is found by the Avengers. He is soon invited to stand with them in the fight for Good!

Origin of Captain America - Classic 60's Cartoon

2008-11-13T05:34:00.001-08:00

Fake Avengers Trailer - For the Fan boys :)

2008-11-13T05:31:00.000-08:00

Better Viewing of Cap's Shield in Iron Man Movie

2008-11-13T05:24:00.000-08:00

Captain America Shield in Iron Man Movie

2008-11-13T05:23:00.000-08:00

Here it is - watch closely in the left of iron man as his suit is coming off.

Cap Vs Red Skull (1979)

2008-11-13T05:21:00.001-08:00

Classic Captain America Motorcycle chase (1979)

2008-11-13T05:20:00.001-08:00

Director of First Avenger: Captain America

2008-11-12T12:29:00.001-08:00

Having directed rampaging dinosaurs in Jurassic Park III and a snarling Benicio Del Toro in the upcoming remake of The Wolfman, Joe Johnston has signed on to bring one of Marvel’s most popular comic-book heroes to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has signed on to direct First Avenger: Captain America for Marvel Studios. The pic is being prepped for a May 6, 2011 release.

A wartime creation of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Captain America first appeared in 1941. The character is the product of a super-soldier program that turns scrawny, sickly Steve Rogers into a Nazi-fighting war machine who wields an indestructible shield. A symbol for the war effort, the hero was later resurrected as part of Marvel’s Avengers.

Staying true to its comic origins, First Avenger will be set during World War II. The character will then be brought into modern times for the upcoming Avengers movie, which Marvel hopes to launch in 2011. Marvel is taking pitches from writers and is looking for an actor to play the title role. The movie is being produced by Marvel's Kevin Feige, and exec produced by Louis D'Esposito, Stan Lee and Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel.

Two members of the Avengers team, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, have already been introduced on the big screen, and Thor is on the way. Kenneth Branagh is in talks to direct Thor for a 2010 release. Director Jon Favreau and actor Robert Downey Jr. are also re-teaming for to Iron Man sequels.

Captain America #39 Wallpaper

2008-06-28T04:56:00.000-07:00

Captain America Wallpaper of Issue #39

PC: Right click on image and 'Set as Background' or 'Set as Wallpaper'
MAC OSX: Drag the image onto your desktop. Go to System Preferences. Then go to the Desktop icon and open it. Then drag the image into the well.

The First Avenger Movie to be set in WWII

2008-06-28T04:41:00.000-07:00

When we first broke the news that Captain America's shield could be found in Iron Man, which was preceded by Marvel's announcement of The First Avenger: Captain America movie for 2011, speculation began as to how exactly the movies would play out and how it would all eventually converge into The Avengers.

In a recent update, numerous websites caught up with Marvel's Kevin Feige as part of an early promotion for The Incredible Hulk. Not only did he speak on all of Marvel's upcoming films, but he confirmed some details regarding Captain America and The Avengers.

First things first, he did confirm Cap's shield was in Iron Man and went on to say that the Matthew McConaughey rumor was not true. And if that weren't enough, he mentioned that The First Avenger: Captain America would be set in World War II, meaning they're following the actual comic origin story pretty closely.

Reports on all things Marvel from Kevin Feige come from both IESB and CHUD. Feige said that "they plan to remain very faithful to the source material and completely traditional." This somewhat confirms my theory that we'll most likely see Captain America frozen at the end of the first movie and unthawed and revived somehow in the actual Avengers movie.

I successfully predicted this would probably be the story. I even threw out the idea of seeing a piece of floating ice with red, white, and blue in it at the end of Thor in 2010. Thus it would get fans excited for the following summer, but that exact story still wouldn't continue until The Avengers movie, only because the Captain America movie would be set in WWII to introduce the character. Now it all makes sense!

In the comics, Steve Rogers volunteered for a top-secret defense project called Operation: Rebirth that was created to develop physically superior soldiers during WWII. Rogers was the first human test subject for the Super-Solider serum which transformed him into a human with maximum efficiency, greatly enhancing his musculature and reflexes.

Subsequently, the man who had created the serum was killed, and thus the ability to duplicate the process was lost. In turn, the government reimagined Rogers as a superhero hero who served as both a counter-intelligence agent and a propaganda symbol to counter Nazi Germany's head of terrorist operations, the Red Skull. He eventually fall into a block of ice in the North Atlantic where he was frozen for years before being discovered in modern times and revived by S.H.E.I.L.D., to eventually become the leader of the Avengers.

Is it necessary that you see The First Avenger: Captain America to understand The Avengers movie? Feige says no, claiming that "each of them have to stand on their own. You won't have to have seen any of the films to understand The Avengers… but it will help." Of course! And we know that true comic fans will see them all anyway. And speaking of the Avengers, now that there is confirmation that the first Captain America takes place during WWII and the origin story in the comics will be followed closely, what about other key members of the Avengers team? Namely Hulk, who wasn't on Marvel's schedule after this year. Feige answered by saying, "this is three years down the line, so it's a long way down the road. But surely the Hulk is one of the core members."

Ever since Marvel announced its slate through 2011, I've been foaming at the mouth with anticipation. We're finally going to see a unified superhero universe comprised of some of the greatest superheroes ever. I'm already expecting The Avengers movie to be one of the most anticipated films in, well, probably ever made. You think Spider-Man 3 was big? Just wait until 2011. And now that Marvel confirms that they're going to stay true to the comics, it means we can expect even better films. This is definitely a very bright future for Marvel!

Casting Call for The First Avenger: Captain America

2008-06-28T04:32:00.000-07:00

Marvel Studios is reportedly considering two A-list stars to play the title role in The First Avenger: Captain America, which is slated for release May 6, 2011.

According to Latino Review, Marvel wants either Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt to play Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America. The site stresses, though, that neither actor has been approached yet. They are simply on the studio's shortlist right now. Latino Review adds that Marvel is also mulling Pitt to play Thor.

DiCaprio, 33, is busy with a slew of other projects in the works (namely Atari and Fleming) so perhaps he'll be too busy to don the red, white and blue for Marvel.

The 44 year-old Pitt, like fellow rumored contender Matthew McConaughey, may be too long in the tooth now to play young recruit-turned-super soldier Steve Rogers.

Captain America Through The Ages

2008-06-28T04:08:00.000-07:00

Captain America Trailer: Mythos

2008-06-28T04:05:00.001-07:00

Comic Book Review: New Avengers #42: Secret Invasion

2008-06-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

For the most part, Bendis has rocked the Secret Invasion tie-in issues. New Avengers #42 goes all the way back to New Avengers #1 and shows the reader how the Skrulls have influenced Bendis’ Avengers over the past several years. I am confident that this should be a rather gripping read. Let’s go ahead and hit this review for New Avengers #42.

Creative Team
Writer: Brain Michael Bendis
Pencils: Jim Cheung
Inks: John Dell

Art Rating: 7 out of 10
Story Rating: 7 out of 10
Overall Rating: 7 out of 10

Synopsis: We begin with that same tired scene that we have seen over and over again that occurred months ago when Nick Fury tells Spider-Girl to join Hydra and get her powers back and then she can work for Nick and let him know what Hydra is up to.

We shift to a Hydra base where the Hydra doctors are putting Jessica under so they can perform the surgery to giver her the Spider-Woman powers once again. After Jessica is put under, we see the Hydra doctors morph into Skrulls. The Skrull Queen enters the surgery room and stares at Jessica.

We cut to the Skrull Queen going through the ceremony to completely become Spider-Woman.

We shift forward in time to a few weeks later with the Skrull spies meeting. They decide to orchestrate their plans for taking over Earth. The three targets include the vibranium mines, which can give the humans weapons to defeat the Skrulls, the mutant population, which is simply to large for the Skrulls to battle, and the super-powered community.

The Skrulls decides to create what will appear to be a corrupt faction of SHIELD that will destroy the vibranium mines. This will get Maria Hill in trouble and she will take the fall for whatever the Skrulls are about to do.

The mutant population will be dealt with by the Skrulls finding a way to heat up the hatred that humans have for mutants so that they start fighting each other and killing each other off.

The Skrulls decide this is the same path they need to take with the super-powered human population. That they have to take out the bigger guns one at a time and get the rest of the super humans to fight each other.

The Skrulls decide that they must take out the big guns like Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, Namor, the Scarlet Witch, Hercules, Reed Richards and Tony Stark. The Skrull Queen says that Tony and Reed are not to be killed. That they are to answer for their crimes on a Skrull world. That is after they watch their planet fall. Then they are punished and then they are killed in the throne city of Galax.

The Skrulls then decide to get Jessica Drew stationed at Ryker’s Island where she can unleash the most madness with the least amount of suspicion. We then cut to the events from the story arc involving the Ryker’s Island jail break. Jessica reports to the Skrulls that the jailbreak was a success in implicating SHIELD as responsible for it and letting loose fifty plus criminals. But, the down side is that the Skrulls just accidentally put the Avengers back together.

We shift to Jessica meeting with Skrully Hank Pym at Hank’s lab. Jessica says that they have another big gun that they need to eliminate: The Sentry. Jessica then tells Hank that the Avengers asked her to join them. Hank is pissed that the New Avengers did not call him to join. Hank shouts that he was a founding member and that they always treated him like crap.

Skrully Hank then tells Jessica that she has to join the Avengers. That Jessica will be living in Tony Stark’s house and this might let them crack Tony’s tech. We shift to Jessica meeting with Madame Hydra. Jessica states that she will spy on the Avengers for Hydra but that Madame Hydra will have to pay her for her services.

We cut to Spider-Woman in her costume officially joining the new Avengers. The Avengers are telling old stories about Scarlet Witch. Spider-Woman asks where Scarlet Witch currently is located. Tony answers that Scarlet Witch had a nervous breakdown and that she is now with her family.

We slide to the SHIELD Helicarrier with Spider-Woman meeting with Maria Hill. Maria Hill lets it known that she does not trust Spider-Woman because she used to be a member of Hydra. Spider-Woman then tells Maria Hill that everyone hates Maria and that no one trusts Maria.

We shift to Spider-Woman on the deck of the Helicarrier. Skrully Yellowjacket radios Spider-Woman and tells her that they are all at Avengers Tower and that the X-Men are here and they are going to Genosha to confront the Scarlet Witch. Skrully Yellowjacket says that Scarlet Witch is out of control again.

Spider-Woman tells Yellowjacket to kill Scarlet Witch. Spider-Woman says that Scarlet Witch has killed Pym’s friends and that he can fake snapping and he can kill Scarlet Witch. After Yellowjacket kills Scarlet Witch then the Skrulls will switch him out.

We shift to hours later in Genosha with Spider-Woman standing there as everything turns white and the events of House of M begin. End of issue.

Comments
The Good: New Avengers #42 was a solid read. Bendis delivers up another pleasant Secret Invasion tie-in issue. I am really enjoying seeing what the Skrulls have been up to during all the events since the Avengers Disassembled story arc. Bendis cranks out a slower paced issue. But, that was fine with me since I wanted a good sense of what Skrully Spider-Woman has been up to over the past several years.

New Avengers #42 was nicely plotted. It is quite enjoyable to see how Bendis seamlessly integrates the Skrulls’ infiltration of the New Avengers into the past story arcs on this title. Bendis continues to impress me with his logical and focused approach of revealing how the Skrulls have been positioning themselves for the past several years in order to launch the Secret Invasion.

What was particularly well done was that Bendis managed to make New Avengers #42 as new reader friendly as possible. Bendis does a nice job of integrating enough back-story into this issue so that even readers who have not been reading New Avengers since the Avengers Disassembled story arc will understand what is going on in this issue.

Bendis serves up some serviceable dialogue. It was not anything special, but it got the job done. There was not much character work in this issue. Still, Bendis did a good job showing how once the Skrulls assume a human form that they end up truly indentifying themselves with the human they are impersonating.

This was nicely shown when Skrully Hank Pym is noticeably irritated that he was not invited to join the New Avengers while Spider-Woman does. Seeing Skrully Hank Pym spit that Hank never got any respect considering that he was an original Avengers shows that these Skrulls truly become the humans that they impersonate.

I dig how Jessica was switched out with the Skrull Queen. Bendis did it in a seamless fashion that made sense. Having Jessica swapped out during her surgery by Hydra allows this Skrull swap to fit perfectly into the back-story on this title.

I like how Bendis revealed the Skrull’s three prong attack once they started infiltrating Earth. It was a logical and well calculated attack. First, they have to eliminate the vibranium mines so that the humans cannot make weapons from vibranium that the Skrulls cannot counter. Second, the Skrulls must reduce the mutant population. Third, the Skrulls must get the human super-heroes to fight each other in order to reduce the numbers.

Bendis unveils a logical and well-calculated three prong attack by the Skrulls that meshes perfectly with the past events on New Avengers. I like how Bendis shows that the Skrulls have been manipulating events to further their own agenda. I dig that the Skrulls do not actively cause everything bad to happen, but they certainly take advantage of various events in order to massage them in the direction that they want them to go.

My favorite scene in this issue was when Spider-Woman reports back about how the jailbreak that she caused at Ryker’s Island was a success in that fifty plus villains are now on the loose. But, and there always is a “but”, Jessica then sheepishly states that she thinks that they just accidentally caused the Avengers to get back together. That was a pretty funny scene. Plus, since the Skrulls for the most part were so incredibly successful with all of their plans leading up to Secret Invasion, it was realistic that at least one of their plans would backfire on them.

I have to say that it appears that the Skrulls hate and despise Tony Stark more than any other human. I love that every time Tony’s name is mentioned that there are multiple curse words preceding Tony’s name. I also love that the two humans that the Skrulls consider to be the most dangerous are Tony Stark and Reed Richards. Tony has no metahuman powers and Reed has metahuman powers that most people would consider more of a joke than a threat. This is a cool way to show that overt power does not necessarily make a person the most dangerous threat.

The Bad: New Avengers #42 suffers from the usual defects that most Bendis titles possess. And that is that the story has a bit of fluff designed to stretch this story over the entire issue. New Avengers #42 had a couple of scenes that I found to be nothing more than time wasters. I could have done without the scene involving Jessica and Madame Hydra and the scene with Jessica and Maria Hill. I also do not think that we needed four pages for Skrull Queen to transform into Jessica.

I have to say that I am totally over the Skrull covers. I am beginning to hate them more than the played out and completely tired zombie covers.

Overall: New Avengers #42 was another good Secret Invasion tie-in issues. Bendis continues to do an impressive job seamlessly meshing the Secret Invasion back-story into the Marvel universe history. I still find the Secret Invasion tie-in issues to be more enjoyable that Secret Invasion itself.

If you are enjoying the Secret Invasion event then I would strongly recommend that you pick up New Avengers #42. You will get treated to plenty of interesting back-story that helps to flesh out the Secret Invasion event.

"The First Avenger: Captain America" the movie release date announced!

2008-05-05T13:09:00.000-07:00

Marvel Studios announced Monday it will release “Iron Man 2” on April 30, 2010, following the success of the first in the comic-book franchise, which pulled in $104.2 million domestically since opening last Thursday and $201 million worldwide.

Four other films based on Marvel superheroes also were announced: “Thor,” due out June 4, 2010; “The First Avenger: Captain America,” May 6, 2011; “The Avengers,” July 2011; and “Ant-Man,” which is in development but has no release date.