Chris Evans is Captain America
(As promised)
And, no, not the ginger one.
Over the past few weeks there was a lot of rumbling about Cap screen-tests and a list of the names were bandied about (hey, Jensen Ackles was in the running at one point, let's all pause and imagine what that would've been like for a moment. Yeah. How happy about S6 of Supernatural are you now? Jensen and RDJ would've eventually been in the same room) and I didn't like any of them.
Even though I'm not the world's biggest Cap fan - not one of them really fitted. (And I was a little disappointed that they weren't testing any black actors in the end - because there's a lot of black actors in America that would've made better Caps than the white guys on that list.)
So, if we can't get the fandom suggested Idris Elba (which, holy shit, was a brain frying moment when I saw that), what can we get?
We can get Chris Evans. And if they were going to choose a white dude that wasn't Alexander Skarsgård (and now that they've actually started filming Thor I've had to accept that our Ken isn't going to realise the error of his ways and recast) - Chris Evans is actually a damned good choice.
Despite the part where he's already the Human Torch. (Good thing F4 is at Fox instead of Marvel Studios, eh?) But at least he was the best thing (aside from Michael Chiklis) about the F4 movies. He couldn't have been more perfect for Johnny Storm.
So, Jen - you ask - if he's such a perfect Johnny Storm, what makes you think he'll make a good Steve Rogers?
And true enough - I normally think of Steve as older and wiser than the vast majority of Chris Evans' roles (and, looking at IMDb, I'm actually rather more qualified to judge that than I'd realised) plus he's not even 30 yet.
But.
I can see it. I can see him as the young guy who wants so desperately to serve his country that he'll undergo experimental treatment to do so. I can see in Evans the Steve Rogers that is the only person the super soldier serum works on. I can also see him, thanks to a lovely unnecessary shirtless scene in F42, as the bulked up super hero who fights the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving - which is epic casting) on the battlefields of WWII.
(And, shallowly, the thought of his Cap and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine hanging out in WWII is a very happy thought. Shut up, I know that Cap and Wolverine are at different studios and that can never happen.)
So, yes, I think that puts Marvel Studios 2 for 4 in good casting. RDJ is a great Tony, Evans should be a good Cap. Ed Norton maybe isn't the best Bruce Banner in the world and I've already railed about the mis-casting of Chris Hemsworth as Thor when they could've had a real life Norse God (shhh, don't give me logic like, idk, A-Skars had to film True Blood or some shit, the show's crap and the residuals from a comic book movie are probably on a level that you can retire on. Our Ken just failed to cast the right guy).
And, no, not the ginger one.
Over the past few weeks there was a lot of rumbling about Cap screen-tests and a list of the names were bandied about (hey, Jensen Ackles was in the running at one point, let's all pause and imagine what that would've been like for a moment. Yeah. How happy about S6 of Supernatural are you now? Jensen and RDJ would've eventually been in the same room) and I didn't like any of them.
Even though I'm not the world's biggest Cap fan - not one of them really fitted. (And I was a little disappointed that they weren't testing any black actors in the end - because there's a lot of black actors in America that would've made better Caps than the white guys on that list.)
So, if we can't get the fandom suggested Idris Elba (which, holy shit, was a brain frying moment when I saw that), what can we get?
We can get Chris Evans. And if they were going to choose a white dude that wasn't Alexander Skarsgård (and now that they've actually started filming Thor I've had to accept that our Ken isn't going to realise the error of his ways and recast) - Chris Evans is actually a damned good choice.
Despite the part where he's already the Human Torch. (Good thing F4 is at Fox instead of Marvel Studios, eh?) But at least he was the best thing (aside from Michael Chiklis) about the F4 movies. He couldn't have been more perfect for Johnny Storm.
So, Jen - you ask - if he's such a perfect Johnny Storm, what makes you think he'll make a good Steve Rogers?
And true enough - I normally think of Steve as older and wiser than the vast majority of Chris Evans' roles (and, looking at IMDb, I'm actually rather more qualified to judge that than I'd realised) plus he's not even 30 yet.
But.
I can see it. I can see him as the young guy who wants so desperately to serve his country that he'll undergo experimental treatment to do so. I can see in Evans the Steve Rogers that is the only person the super soldier serum works on. I can also see him, thanks to a lovely unnecessary shirtless scene in F42, as the bulked up super hero who fights the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving - which is epic casting) on the battlefields of WWII.
(And, shallowly, the thought of his Cap and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine hanging out in WWII is a very happy thought. Shut up, I know that Cap and Wolverine are at different studios and that can never happen.)
So, yes, I think that puts Marvel Studios 2 for 4 in good casting. RDJ is a great Tony, Evans should be a good Cap. Ed Norton maybe isn't the best Bruce Banner in the world and I've already railed about the mis-casting of Chris Hemsworth as Thor when they could've had a real life Norse God (shhh, don't give me logic like, idk, A-Skars had to film True Blood or some shit, the show's crap and the residuals from a comic book movie are probably on a level that you can retire on. Our Ken just failed to cast the right guy).