Captain America

Marvel Movie News – Captain America 2, Thor 2, Nick Fury

While most of us are looking forward to the movies due out in 2012, the studios are looking further down the line to movies for 2013 and beyond. Such is the nature of film-making. Marvel is the king of looking ahead, with and endless supply of movies based on one comic book hero or another...
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‘Captain America 2′ Revisiting WWII?

**Spoiler Alert** Those who haven’t yet seen Captain America: The First Avenger may want to avoid reading this article. At the end of The First Avenger, Captain America found himself in the present day, having been “asleep” (likely frozen in ice) for 70 years. This was a necessary plot device in order for Captain America...
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‘Captain America’ Movie Review

The Captain America comic series was never all that big outside the U.S., as far as I know. It certainly never achieved the success of Spider-Man, Superman, or Batman. I’d put it more on a par with Iron Man. But can the Captain America movie do for this series what the Iron Man movies did...
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Evans: Captain America “for the fans”

Anyone making a movie based on a comic book, particularly a well-loved, long-running one with a strong central character, has to walk the line between pleasing the fans and pleasing newcomers. It’s a tough ask, and very few pull it off successfully. There’s no easy way to do it. Directors, producers, screenwriters, and actors just...
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Captain America Shooting In UK?

Captain America is, as if the name didn’t give it away, an American icon. However, the new movie is likely to have a more international feel, and could even be shot in the U.K. At least partly. ComicBookMovie claims that an Operator of Independent Studio Services tweeted the following message on Twitter recently: “Marvel films...
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Stan Lee: Will Smith Could Be Captain America, If Obama Is President

When comic book characters are brought to the big screen, they are typically cast so as to keep the characters physical proportions and looks virtually identical as their original forms. But there’s a problem with that, as most mainstream comic book heroes are white and upper class – not very indicative of the society we...
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