Saddle up, queers, it’s Captain America update-time. First Collider reports that director Joe Johnston says he’s looking to cast a relative unknown in the lead, who’ll “definitely” be an American (Update: Like the guy from Chuck, perhaps). Because it’s only cool to cast people as the wrong nationality if they’re Asian, Latin, or Sean Connery. Meanwhile, the LA Times has more plot info:
Johnston and Marvel have added a new wrinkle to the classic mythology to explain why a scientifically enhanced super-soldier would venture out in the WWII battlefields in a costume that leans a bit heavy on the old Betsy Ross imagery [i.e., the flag. -Ed.].
“The costume is a flag, but the way we’re getting around that is we have Steve Rogers forced into the USO circuit. After he’s made into this super-soldier, they decide they can’t send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He’s the only one and they can’t make more. So they say, ‘You’re going to be in this USO show’ and they give him a flag suit. He can’t wait to get out of it.”
That’s a whole new concept and it’s one that sounds pretty promising [redacted]. “It was never in the comics,” Johnston said, “because they didn’t really need it. In comics, he puts on the costume and the reader just justifies because of the nature of the medium.”
So… the U.S. creates the strongest weapon in the world, and the plan is to make it wear a gay costume and entertain the troops? I only have one thing to say: Yakety Sax or GTFO.


This is like when I force my dates to wear their birthday suit.
Wow, ruining the movie in development? Your move, Fox.
Why not? We already use our best technology to make cheesy movies about blue cat aliens.
(I’m just egging on the Avatards at this point.)
So they’re taking their most valuable commodity, wrapping it in plastic, and never using it for its original intention for fear of damaging it? I’m sure that mentality will be utterly lost on comic book collectors.
So…. Actually thinking things through and finding a practical costume change for real-life actors: Too hard.
Suck on that, X-Men The Dark Night Fantastic Four Spider-Man Etc.
big deal Norway’s biggest super warrior spends his days on the bubbledeath circuit
He can’t wait to get out of the flag suit because horizontal stripes make him look fat.
So Captain America is going to have the awesome power of Jazz-hands?
This is like making a gun that shoots 3,000 bullets a second and using it to launch confetti.
Melllvar’s got a spaceship
yes, in mint condition…AND YOU MADE ME TAKE IT OUT OF THE PACKAGE!
Word on the street is that Joe Johnston watched Spider-Man 3 recently. When the jazz club scene happened Ol’ Joe broke down cryin’ and said “My god, this is it. This is the spirit of America”.
Argh. I so want to make a sarcastic comment, but instead I’m just pissed at their idiocy. Cap’s costume was intentionally made that way, to boost moral with the troops and scare the bejeesus out of the Nazis. It/He was a symbol. Also, the mindset of being afraid to risk your only asset wasn’t prevalent during that time period. The military didn’t start thinking that way until the cold war was well underway. Cap’s “classic” origin story works perfectly as-is, and doesn’t need to be “fixed,” justified, or apologized for. Rotten bastards.
Are you sure this isn’t the biography of Bob Hope?
i think this topic was posted to make vince mad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/board/nest/156899507