We have a Steve Rogers

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

From the Human Torch to Cap, Chris Evans has taken the job. Thoughts?

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

He will have a lifetime gig at the convention scene.

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

He's also in the Scott Pilgrim film.

[Lumbering Jack (M'odd-R8-Tr)]

Human Torch was the best thing about the F.F. movies. I credit that to a number of things (visuals, script, etc), including his performance. I don't think I've ever seen him in anything but these movies, so I'll be curious for him to handle a more stoic character.

[ClarkKent_DC]

Works for me.

I just wonder how they'll handle the early scenes when Steve Rogers is a 98-pound weakling ...

[Kent Allard]

Bah humbug - too young

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

Steve was frozen before the end of the war...he can't be more than early-mid 20s. Evans is just a year away from his 30th birthday.

[Kent Allard]

Doc Beechler said:

Steve was frozen before the end of the war...he can't be more than early-mid 20s. Evans is just a year away from his 30th birthday.

Yeah, but I'm over 30 and Cap is supposed to be older and wiser than me (and not just because of suspended animation)...

[Batmatt Beyond]

Lumbering Jack said:

Human Torch was the best thing about the F.F. movies. I credit that to a number of things (visuals, script, etc), including his performance. I don't think I've ever seen him in anything but these movies, so I'll be curious for him to handle a more stoic character.

I agree about Evans' Torch being the best thing in the FF movies (well, at least the first one; haven't really watched the second), so I'm cool with his casting. Earlier today, I realized he might actually be a little too old to be a freshly-thawed Cap, which felt like a weird realization. It will be interesting to see the twentysomething Cap and Thor playing off the 42-year-old Tony Stark/RDJr in the Avengers movie.

[ClarkKent_DC]

Kent Allard said:

Doc Beechler said:

Steve was frozen before the end of the war...he can't be more than early-mid 20s. Evans is just a year away from his 30th birthday.

Yeah, but I'm over 30 and Cap is supposed to be older and wiser than me (and not just because of suspended animation)...

Wiser, yes. Older, no.

That's the thing; Captain America is always presented as if he's in his mid- to late 30s, if not his early 40s, but he shouldn't be. If he enlisted -- or, rather, tried to enlist -- in his late teens or early 20s circa 1940, then went through five years of World War II, by rights he should have been in his early to mid-20s when he was thawed out "ten years ago."

[Mark Stanislawski]

Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull!

"Mr. Rogers, welcome back. We missed you." :-)

[Figserello]

Shouldn't that be "Miss -terr Rog-EEERRRS. WelCOME back, We've missed you....."

[Horn'd One]

As long as he can pull off a decent German accent, I'll be fine with it.