I think Leonardo DiCaprio would be an awesome Cap!
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 16:55
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Quote: I think Leonardo DiCaprio would be an awesome Cap!
Eh, he'd be alright.
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 20:49
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The only thing he'd need to do is work out to get buff and that's about it.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 22:28 Last Edited By: Pole805
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Yeah that's what marvel is saying, he or this other guy is the star of Cap.
Posted: 15 Aug 2008 04:25
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Casper Van Dien or Leonardo DiCaprio = Captain America!
Posted: 15 Aug 2008 05:03
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Casper Van Dien would be okay. I'd be fine with him or Tom Welling.
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Say Pole posted this link to this video
It was good, and the guy they got to represent Steve Rogers got me thinking. I remember watching this guy on Charmed. He actually would make a good Cap even though he's got a German sounding name, Brian Krause
Quote: Krause was born in 1969 in El Toro, California. He graduated in 1987 from El Toro High School. He has an older brother, Patrick. He resides in the San Fernando Valley. Away from the studios, he enjoys golfing, surfing and jogging. Prior to making his mark as an actor, he juggled various part-time jobs - including driving a pie truck and hanging drywall.
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I don't get it, I didn't upload that video.
Speaking of which, how do you post a video?
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You posted a link to it under the Avenger/Invaders thread. I just grabbed the embed code from youtube and pasted it in. Just copy and paste.
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Quote: You posted a link to it under the Avenger/Invaders thread. I just grabbed the embed code from youtube and pasted it in. Just copy and paste.
Check it out. Every youtube page, just about, has an embed code you can past into message boards
K thanks.
Posted: 16 Aug 2008 20:09
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Also check out this funny poster I found!
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Just did a search on Brian Krause and other than his height(5' 11" not much difference) he'd be perfect.
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Or the fact that by the time the movie comes out, he'll be 42. If they decide to do two sequels, he'll be almost 50 by the time the last one comes out. For those folks worried about age, he kinda doesn't fit.
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Saw Casper Van Dien on a episode of Monk this weekend. He was playing a Navy sailor. He really does have that whole superhero look in the face. Looks like he was drawn almost. That's what my wife thought anyway. She tells me what to think. __________________
Quote: Saw Casper Van Dien on a episode of Monk this weekend. He was playing a Navy sailor. He really does have that whole superhero look in the face
When you're out here you can express what you think about CAsper or the other actors, anyway the director needs to make the Cap movie really good, we've waited too long for another great comic book hero to be put in a bad CAptain America movie.
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Quote: Saw Casper Van Dien on a episode of Monk this weekend. He was playing a Navy sailor. He really does have that whole superhero look in the face. Looks like he was drawn almost. That's what my wife thought anyway. She tells me what to think.
Yeah, Casper would be probably the best person to play Captain America. I hope someone emails Marvel about Casper being a good pick for Captain America so that Marvel can call Casper and Casper will hopefully accept. I know he will accept it, I don't think he's ever turned down a role, plus he's a really nice guy. Someone please email Marvel about Casper Van Dien. Also Leonardo DiCaprio would be an awesome Cap, he did good in "The Departed", in my opinion he's more suited for Bucky but if the movie is Cap in his early days than yeah Leonardo DiCaprio would be good for the part.
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Casper Van Dien/Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 00:46 Last Edited By: Pole805
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Yeah, he's in the action movies, I hope he's the role for Cap. He's been acting sometimes as heroes ever since Starship Troopers 1-3.
Maybe you can get a file on marvel and e-mail marvel to tell about Casper!
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:54
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I would if I new how to contact them.
Posted: 19 Aug 2008 17:34 Last Edited By: Pole805
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Ok guys, I just found THE BEST fan made trailer I have ever seen before, I realize that the dates wrong and Captain is spelled wrond but it's a great fan made trailer!
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Captain America is an FDR Democrat.
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I don't like fan-made trailers period.
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Hi, all. I'm new here, but I've been a Cap fan for as long as I can remember. Heck, I even did my undergrad honors thesis on superheroes at UC Berkeley, so I've done my fair share of research. The one theme I keep seeing here is that people keep proposing random assortments of villains for Cap or for the Avengers to fight in their back-to-back films. At the same time, we preach "staying true to the source material" as a pre-requisite for a good comic pic.
What I've heard, and what I believe to be the right course of action in Cap's case, is to do exactly that - FOLLOW THE BOOKS. We already know it's a period piece, right? Great, let's take that as a given. Start the sucker out with a 20-year-old Rogers (probably a 30-year-old actor through the magic of movie making) in a movie theater, watching the newsreels of the Nazi march on Poland. Cue dramatic music/patriotic/melancholy music, whatever you want. Show flashes of the next three years as he keeps getting rejected at a recruiter's office. Finally, some dude in the shadows or behind a door or whatever tells the recruiter that "he's perfect." Or you could have an OSS memo on the dude's desk. Whatever. Anyway, scrawny kid gets the Super Soldier treatment in a secret lab below Sam's Barber shop (i.e. the comic book location that becomes a secret front for SHIELD in NY on the Lower East Side).
Main action of the movie is going to be WWII battles. Towards the end, it should get pretty heavy with Cap dealing with seeing the concentration camps. If you're gonna do it right, have the Skull's journey parallel Cap's, so once Cap gets into the fighting, put Skull in the midst of it, and as Cap's missions get closer and closer to the heart of Nazi evil, show Skull's mind being more and more warped, with him performing more and more acts of abject horror.
As Cap deals with the big battles, show Bucky paralleling him. Bucky should be his partner, yes, but use a little of the Winter Soldier background and show him doing the things Cap would never do - i.e. kill people (assassinations,etc.). Climax is the big fistfight, lots of martial arts (good opportunity to show Cap's unique judo-boxing fighting style) between Cap and Skull, until Skull manages to trick Cap and win somehow. Cap gets knocked out, sees Bucky getting tortured, same as in the WS arc. Cue the drone plane. Big boom, fading image of Bucky's face as he fades into the blackness of the deep North Atlantic. Aaaaaaanndddd, scene.
One month later in real world time, "Avengers" comes out. Loki incites the Hulk to trash half of Manhattan (remember, Thor will have come out by then). But, as is Hulk's wont, he leaps away to wherever Hulks go to calm down. Take a page out of the Ultimates here and have Stark (Downey, Jr.) and Fury (Samuel L. Mutha-effin Jackson) meeting with Gen. Ross about the Hulk and how to contain him (perhaps introduce the Hulkbuster armor?). Meanwhile, in the North Atlantic ......
A SHIELD spy ship comes across a strange deep sonar reading. Guess who?
Cap wakes up, forms a bond with Stark while dealing with Bucky's apparent death, getting used to our time, etc. Cap at first doesn't want to continue being a hero, because he's lost so much. Seeing Hulk in action changes his mind.
Somewhere in this, it should be uncovered that Loki is a part of inciting the Hulk in order to get at his step-bro Thor, and in the grand finale, we have Cap utter his famous battle cry for the first time in his new modernized duds (they better keep the wings on the mask, or else), as Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Ant Man, and Wasp lay the smack down on Loki.
That's how they did it in the comic books. That's how they should do it in the movie(s).
Posted: 21 Aug 2008 16:12 Last Edited By: Pole805
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Look, there are many different stories on how old Cap was ect. The one you just said, is the storie present, the original is he was a newspaper boy and was chosen to be Cap.
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I had the Ultimate Origins story in my head when I wrote this. Personally, I think it's got more drama and depth to it. Cap has about two or three origin stories that differ only in the slightest (I think in one he's an art student when he gets chosen), but this one grabbed me. The biggest way in which they should stay true to the comics is the Loki/Hulk element. I really honestly believe that's where they're going with the movies, especially with the way the movie slate is laid out as of now, with Iron Man 2 coming before the mostly-Asgard-set Thor, I think that idea works nicely.
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Quote: the original is he was a newspaper boy and was chosen to be Cap.
I thought he was an art student. I've read his various origin stories, and they never said anything about that.
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Regardless of how exactly the details are worked out, the main conflict in the Cap film should be Cap (and maybe Bucky, if the right actor can be found who could convey the darkness of what the Winter Soldier Bucky has - the assassin, etc.) against the Skull. The Avengers film should focus on the Loki/Hulk conflict that first brought the Avengers together.
From what I've heard from some people in the industry (granted, at second-or-third-hand) is that they're leaning towards Cap getting frozen at the end of his film, and being awoken in the opening scenes of the Avengers. I hope that's true, because that's the only way to go.
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I don't even know that I would include Winter Soldier. Jsut have him as Bucky and leave it at that.
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Yeah, that's what I was saying. Obviously don't tip the hand at Winter Soldier yet, because if they decide to make a few Cap movies, you can bring him back as WS in one of them much later down the road. But in the first one, at least gesture at the fact that Bucky does the dirty work Rogers can't as Cap. I think it'll make for a more layered character, instead of just a teenager in a domino mask. I guess use the characterization of Bucky that we saw in the WS arc, not just a gee-wiz kid.
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If the movie followed the Cap books, it'll be like that Robin Williams movie, Bicentennial man, family buys a robot, robot makes attachments to family, robot sets out to look for other robots, robot makes a human body for itself, robot progams emotions, robot adopts a dog, yadda yadda ....
The movie has to make the audience care for the hero, root for him and inspired by his words and actions. Plus, the movie has to please us fans but also applease the general audience who knows nothing about Captain America (And that's where it'll make the most money), I've been saying, just make this one big war movie, retro Nazi weapons, a cool Cap costume (Not that Ultimate WW2 Cap suit, that works for fans, not for the GA), great dialog and an actor with leadership and integrity that can carry this movie and make this fantastic and enjoyable to watch.
That 'Suspended in animation' thing only works in the Avengers movie, because that's one of the greatest moments in Avengers books, and if this is done in the Cap movie, it just lessen that impact for the Avengers, like that Ang Lee Hulk movie took away some of that cool smashing big green monster appeal from that new Norton, Hulk movie.
