Marvel CEO Avi Arad has announced that one of the new projects for Marvel Studios will be a full length theatrical version of Captain America. God Bless America! Finally we can wash the taste of the 1991 straight to video version out of our mouths (unless of course this is even worse – see Fantastic Four). David Self (Road to Perdition, Thirteen Days) has been tapped to write the script. No word yet on whether Cap’s WWII origin, life as an icecube, and freeze thaw by The Avengers, will be left intact but early talks seem to put most of the story in the present day (Cap vs. Iraq?). Development stage could take awhile so don’t expect to see the film before 2009. In the meantime we can speculate on who Marvel should get to play the Cap’n. Well let’s see Steve Rogers (Cap’s real name) is a white, blonde, blue-eyed, straight faced, square jawed, buff, slightly gay (anyone remember “Bucky”), humorless type of guy. Am I the only one that thinks Paul Walker would be perfect for this role?
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