• That guy is so fucking hot...

• But STILL, it's something that's been bugging me about comic book movies in general. When you're cast as a comic book character, YOU ARE that character. The various and sundry nerddoms around the world will mentally label you as that character for life if it's memorable enough (the shadow of the Bat is STILL chasing Adam West). If you get cast as yet ANOTHER comic book character, it's... jarring, to put it mildly. That actor is identified as a character in the minds of the viewers, and when they take on another role in the same universe, it ... well, it gets any nerd's dander up if they're trying to view this as a complete universe (man, do I hope Happy Hogan and Foggy Nelson never meet). But yeah. That's something that cheeses me off. Take it how you will.

• Hooray! Now I actually have a reason to see a Captain America movie.

• I say give him a chance. I'm more worried how they'll screw with the costume. I hope they go with an Ultimates version of cap, he was a bad ass. Aaron Eckhardt is a pretty good choice though.

• You realize, of course, that the guy who was perfect for playing Beetlejuice was also perfect for playing Batman?

• Passable. He wasn't awful, but it was by no means a stellar performance.

• I like how everyone is thinking Marvel based this purely on looks. I'm pretty sure they've done a bunch of screen tests with him running Cap lines. Just to see if he can handle the authority/icon figure. Hell if they've let him sign a contract without seeing his take on Cap I'd sack the shit out of the casters.

• There will never be a Avengers/Fantastic Four crossover because the rights to the FF movies dont belong to Marvel. Just like why spider-man or wolverine wont be in later avengers movies.

• I was decent in Push...even though that movie managed to involuntarily push crap out of my rectum.

• Dane Cook and the Jonas bros couldn't have been serious. Yeesh. I still think Aaron Eckhardt would have been the greatest choice... he looks just like Cap in my mind, and the man can act.

• I just did and that makes the whole thing look even more "evil". I though that CA was Marvels counterpart to Superman (as Icon for moral), but with what I have read so far about Captain America his origin makes him more sound like a Nazi Villian. But then of course I have never actually read a comic about him and I am basing what I am writing pretty much only on Wikipedia.

• Even though you hated how Sunshine ended, or perhaps the whole movie, what did you think of Evans' performance in it?

• I went to High School with this guy. I'm gonna go kill myself now.

• Totally agree. Krasinski has a ton of range as an actor and charisma to spare. People who thought this was going to be Jim Halpert as Cap aren't giving him enough credit. His work in Leatherheads gives a lot of clues to how he'd have approached the role and made me very intrigued. I honestly don't get the Chris Evans love. I actually liked the Fantastic Four films for the most part, but he was what I liked the least. I mean, I'm glad he's not Dane Cook, obviously, but he's a very meh choice to me.

• Push is an underrated movie, which he was actually good in.

• Gosh, I can't wait for the Avengers/Fantastic Four crossover film! It's probably going to involve keeping the universe from imploding because THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO WORLD-BUILD! >.<

• Ummmm..... it's called acting. There is the possibility that he actually has range.

• Hell yes. This. What he said.

• ...if he does that, I'll kill someone.

• So let me understand this: The same guy who was perfect to play Johnny Storm nf the Fantastic Four is also the same guy who is perfect to play Captain America? Such logic would decree then that the characters of the Human Torch and Captain America are nearly identical, which if you're a reader of Marvel comics you'll know is complete BS Either way, some casting agent really screwed up.

• Me too. I understand people's outright hatred of the slasher movie third act, but for some reason, it really worked for me.

• Hey you should look up a plot Synopsis for TRUTH: Red White and Black to see the back story that got added a few years ago.

• I actually like Chris Evans as an actor. He brings a fun vibe to the movies I've seen him in. That being said, I don't believe that quiiiite makes me fine with him being Capt America on its own merits. In fact, I think it hurts the concept, because Evans has always come across a little too humorously immature and corny to congeal very well with Mr. Old-skool patriotism up there. I just feel like he's going to come at the character like he has every other part I've seen him play: all wannabe hip and vaguely spazy --which is great for stuff like "Push" or ...if Abrams had thought about it, perhaps young Kirk ...but not the stoic Captain America. ...Well, see, I guess.

• You make a good point. I guess since this is Cap at his origin, the age IS right. I'm just used to seeing the older, more experience Cap from the comics. - He was unfrozen around the time Peter Parker became Spider-Man (give or take a couple years) which was when Pete was 16 years old. The current 616 Marvel timeline figures Peter Parker in his late 20s right now (closer to 30 than 25), so that means that Captain America is in the neighborhood of 37 - 40 years old.

• Mark Valley? I thought that too. But hopefully he'll stay busy with Chance.

• Remember the Golden Rule!!! The HUMAN TORCH can not go and play Captain America!!!!!!!!!

• Pardon me whilst I clean up my drool. He's....so...fine. I will definately be seeing this movie

• I read somewhere that Marvel was only looking at American actors to play the Captain, Mr. Pearce is British. He would have been fantastic though, he's a good actor and has great jaw line.

• he's not the right fit.

• I think he can make this work,but hes going to have to act the shit out of the part. Compared to the rest of The Avengers,Cap is pretty deep. The best part of Cap is the whole "man out of time" angle. As long as Evans understands the character,I think it'll be OK.

• Yeah. My only problem with it is that he has to have the weight to be all manly and authority-like while facing RD jr. and maybe Ed Norton, and I have a hard time imagining that at this moment. But hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. I'll just keep my non-homo-erotic fantasy of Eric Dane playing Cap to myself...

• It's going to be weird seeing Evans be in charge of Norton & Downey, Jr. It be cooler if they had gotten Guy Pearce. He has the skills, look, and most importantly, gravitas to weigh as much onscreen as the other big names. Evans is going to look like the little toadie Grover Dill next to the bigger, tougher Scut Farkuses.

• I gotta agree, John Krasinski would have made a really great Cap. he's got the charisma and the acting skills for it, the rest can be obtained by exercise and a little "300eske makeup" added in there for good measure. In any case Chris Evans isn't a bad choice either, just hope that it's a good choice in the long run

• You just know Cap will have to utter the phrase, "Flame on!" at some point.

• You gotta remember though, Marvel licensed the Fantastic Four for use, it wasn't their movie. Plus, word is it's getting rebooted, which means that he's likely "out" as Torch. As far as the "real" Marvel movies go, this is his first character, and I think he's actually going to be a really good Cap. If we're lucky, Fox will realize that it's in their best interest to work WITH Marvel on the FF reboot, etc and maybe we can have some overlap in that new movie like we're already seeing with Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and so on.

• I figure they'll just do it like they did to Toby Maguire in the first Spider-Man movie and digitally emaciate him a bit. That and a little creative costuming and no double necessary.

• I would prefer that they did not reuse actors in the same universe, but it did not appear that they had much to work with. As for Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool and Green Lantern, those are two different comic universes. That is not an apt comparison.

• Life is just not fair!

• PERFECT CHOICE!

• The other unfortunate implication is that it tells kids that an injection can turn you into a superhero. Ah, the 40's.

• Why does he have the Japanese character for "Mr." as a tattoo?

• Rob tried real hard, but he said it was absurdly hard to find clothed pictures of the man online, much less ones that weren't photoshopped nudes.

• He was awesome in Not Another Teen Movie, practically the only mash-up parody worth seeing.

• Count me as another who enjoyed Sunshine. Sorry, Dead.

• I don't know, I get the feeling his only character is 'cocky rebel womaniser', which isn't right for Cap. Still, it's cool that the whole Avengers movie thing is coming together after about 10 years of rumours and planning.

• A younger actor makes sense for Cap, since he's 22 or 23 at best when he gets frozen in the ice.

• I'm so glad that they didn't go with that mumbling nebbish,Channing Tatum,he was quite possibly the worst t guy they could have chosen for Duke, this Chris guy I don't really know so the jury is still out I guess.

• Two things, Rob: 1) The picture of Cap you've got up there is Bucky Barnes, not Steve Rogers, whom Evans will be playing. 2) The reason they had to cast a young-looking guy is because before he becomes Captain America, Steve Rogers is just some scrawny 19-year-old art student.

• Sorry, too soon after Fantastic Four, I see Johnny Storm and just want to smack that cocky smirk off his face. Cap should be the epitome of everything that's patriotic and heroic about this country, hell we NEED a Cap right now, would you attack Fin Fang freaking Foom just because you were inspired by this guy? That and he just looks too dumb to trust, no offense if he's a Rhodes Scholar or in Mensa or something, but in that pic it looks like he's not wearing his shirt because he couldn't figure it out.

• i still contend that John Krasinski could've been a GREAT Cap. i mean, he's an actor, so if he could've pulled off that whole authoritative, leader-of-men thing (and of course bulked up), it would've been awesome. he's already got the everyman quality. i think his chemistry with Robert Downey Junior would've been excellent. i do like Chris Evans. PUSH is a pretty bad movie, but Evans does good with what he's given. and i'm hoping to be the one millionth poster to point to his performance in SUNSHINE.

• Marvel has had a history with their films of picking some one who proved to be the right choice. and after all Ryan renolds is doing both green lantern and dead pool so why shouldn't Chris be part of that club . not to mention he has has experiance in the marvel films as the torch. so Marvel proably found something in him perfect for cap. so fans should wait till the thing shoots and is in theatres before wondering Why Chris got picked . and can not wait to see his reaction when he has to Dye his hair blonde. and also in the suit.

• he and chiklis were the only good things in fantastic four. I think this is gonna work out pretty good.

• Now onto the next important casting choice: the scrawny body double for Evans pre-Super Soldier Serum. DJ Qualls available?

• hm...I'd be more comfortable with him as Bucky-Cap than as Steve Rogers, but Iron Man was so good I'm definitely willing to give new self-produced Marvel projects the benefit of the doubt.

• Since i barely knew anything about CA I looked him up on Wikipedia and if I understood his background right it went something like this: During the second world war scientest created a dangerous drug that would turn even the weakest person into a supersoldier..or kill them in the process. Those who survive were to become the elite, fighting for their country...and this is what the GOOD guys were doing. Does this not rather sound like something the Nazis would come up with?? Does the whole thing not sound a bit ironic? We are going to defeat the Nazis and their crazy and racist idiology of being superior beings and warrios by creating supersoldiers! Or maybe I just don't get comics.

• exactly the point I was going to make, Cap is on the young side compared to everyone else, not chronologically but still

• If this means Rob is going to keep posting shirtless pics of Chris Evans, then I say YES.

• i really Thought the guy from Human Target would have been a great cap, but who knows maybe this guy will be pretty good. I didn't think ledger would be good as joker and that turned out to be wrong

• :snort: is that the only picture you got of him? you're getting way too excited about a yes-saying shirtless guy.

• I like the dude in everything I've seen him in, just dunno if I can see him pulling of the whole 1940's vibe. He looks like he is more at home wearing an Abercrombie t-shirt and white framed sunglasses. Well, fingers crossed!

• I have no problem with the guy, but considering that list Rob put up, it seems like he was the only one considered for the role who didn't suck, and that's not the best recommendation in the world. Call me cautiously optimistic.

• I'm down for this.

• "...and he's been good in other films, I'm told." Evans was great in Cellular and Sunshine, two movies that are well worth checking out if you haven't seen them yet.

• It would make sense for him to be on the younger side. Seeing as Avengers will probably be an origin story, they've got to bring Cap out of the ice. Cap was born July 4, 1917 and was frozen in April of 1945, that makes him 27. And Chris Evans is 28. I think we're fine age-wise.

• Nooooo! I was gonna see the movie if Jim was in it, too.

• I 100% agree.

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