Well this is good news for the Whedonites, whoever the hell they are: hot on the heels of the news that Joss Whedon would be directing The Avengers — a little backstory: the story was first reported by poor IESB on April 1st, when everyone assumed it was an April Fool’s joke; true story — comes word that Whedon will also be rewriting the script for Captain America. One of the dorks at Pajiba told me as I was flushing his calculator down the toilet:
Apparently Whedon’s role in the Marvel film universe may expand even further, as he’s also likely to be tasked with doing a polish on the Captain America script. At this point, we know the general news about Captain America — Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans) undergoes a secret super soldier experiment during WWII and becomes Captain America. During a battle with The Red Skull (played by Hugo Weaving), he ends up frozen in ice, only to re-emerge during the modern era (where, presumably, he’ll eventually meet up with Tony Stark, Nick Fury, Thor, and the rest of the gang). The nature of Whedon’s script polish (on a screenplay originally written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) is unknown, but it makes me rest a little easier, since this project has seemed like more of an x-factor than the others.
I’m not going to pretend I know anything about Joss Whedon; I don’t. And I get the feeling I wouldn’t like his stuff. But what these comic book projects need above all else is a point of view, the sense of conscious narrative choices being made not by committee. And at the very least, Joss Whedon has a point of view. It lives in a loft apartment inside his gigantic forehead.
Oh yeah, and in awesome boobs news, this chick (Hayley Atwell) beat out Alice Eve for the female lead. I hope they at least made them KY wrestle for it.
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Watching Chris Evans act like a misplaced WWII soldier is going to be like watching Paul Walker act.
I didn’t know all three of them were Braves fans.
See, I can distinguish between Joss Whedon and J J Abrams by hairline alone now. It saves me the trouble of microchip implant tagging them like dogs.
he’s also likely to be tasked with doing a polish on the Captain America script.
So they want him to crash it in Russia?
as he’s also likely to be tasked with doing a polish on the Captain America script.
“Doing a polish”? Does that mean he’s tasked with burning it in a giant fiery mess, forcing him to start his own script from scratch?
Uh Donk, I think my dick is singing “Endless Love” to your dick. Sorry.
Haha, Morty! That means it’s YOUR turn to wear the squirrel costume.
on a screenplay originally written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
McFeely? Haven’t the Irish suffered enough indignities?
I don’t know what Kentucky wrestling is, but if it is anything like Tennessee Mud-huntin’, then Ms. Eve can’t sit very easily and Ms. Atwell has a sore fist.
I’ll go see this if they don’t give Captain America any instruction on how society has changed and he runs around doing racist things because he thinks he’s upholding segregation laws.
Captain America, this is President Barack Obama.
Greetings. I must admit, in my time there is not yet a tribe known to the civilized world as “Bama” but looking at you, I am sure it is a proud people “o” which you are president.
No, Steve. He’s the president. Of the USA.
Well, fuck me. This is awkward.