UPDATED: Updates and Confirmations on Marvel Casting!
Swank-mo-tron wrote this kick-ass post
An incredibly trusted and wise source of Big Shiny Robot!s has
consulted his trusted and wise source at the Marvel/Paramount camp
about the recent flurry of casting rumours that have plagued the
internet in the last week (yes, we�re guilty, too.)
Here is what our good friend had to say:
According to MY studio guy, the rumors about Chad Michael Murray
(One Tree Hill), Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)
and other unknowns/television actors reading for Cap are true.
Apparently, when the script came in with World War II sequences
(featuring the Invaders), the studio heads decided it was beyond their
means to make this movie AND afford A-listers like Brad Pitt and Matt
Damon.
Sure sounds like everyone�s high on McPartlin, who evidently just
lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh.
As for Spidey, the Logan Lerman rumors are just that � rumors.
Apparently Sony is waiting for James Vanderbilt�s script to come in
(he�s balking on whether Peter Parker is still in school or just out).
And they haven�t even come to terms with director Marc Webb yet.
NO on this one.
> Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)
Qualified "Yes" on these two...
Remember, this is the singing dancing Captain America.
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as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:
"What a terrible way to go-go"
--
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>On Feb 9, 9:00�am, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/11986
>>
>> UPDATED: Updates and Confirmations on Marvel Casting!
>> Swank-mo-tron wrote this kick-ass post
>>
>> An incredibly trusted and wise source of Big Shiny Robot!s has
>> consulted his trusted and wise source at the Marvel/Paramount camp
>> about the recent flurry of casting rumours that have plagued the
>> internet in the last week (yes, we re guilty, too.)
>>
>> Here is what our good friend had to say:
>>
>> � � According to MY studio guy, the rumors about Chad Michael Murray
>> (One Tree Hill),
>
>NO on this one.
I refer you to his stint as the Lone Ranger.
That should be 'Hell NO on this one'.
>> Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)
>
>Qualified "Yes" on these two...
McPartlin looks the part more, and he's been pretty much playing the part,
personality-wise, on Chuck. I'd pick Padelecki over Ackles for Captain
America.
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> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:21:14 -0800 (PST), "Ian J. Ball" <ib...@san.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Feb 9, 9:00�am, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/11986
> >>
> >> UPDATED: Updates and Confirmations on Marvel Casting!
> >> Swank-mo-tron wrote this kick-ass post
> >>
> >> An incredibly trusted and wise source of Big Shiny Robot!s has
> >> consulted his trusted and wise source at the Marvel/Paramount camp
> >> about the recent flurry of casting rumours that have plagued the
> >> internet in the last week (yes, we re guilty, too.)
> >>
> >> Here is what our good friend had to say:
> >>
> >> � � According to MY studio guy, the rumors about Chad Michael Murray
> >> (One Tree Hill),
> >
> >NO on this one.
>
> I refer you to his stint as the Lone Ranger.
NOOO! MAKE THE BAD MAN STOP REFERRING!
Whatever happened to the hot Indian babe from that?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113036/
Huh. Plugging along.
Man, the Ranger's real name in that was LUKE HARTMAN?? What the hell??
>
> That should be 'Hell NO on this one'.
>
> >> Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural)
> >
> >Qualified "Yes" on these two...
>
> McPartlin looks the part more, and he's been pretty much playing the part,
> personality-wise, on Chuck. I'd pick Padelecki over Ackles for Captain
> America.
--
You'd think she's have been one of the alternate Weir babes at least. :)
So you are saying John Barrowman?
That has possibilities.
> I'd pick Padelecki over Ackles for Captain
>America.
So, since Padalecki is wholly inappropriate for Captain America (he'd
make a great Winter Soldier, IMO), I take it that this is your way of
saying that Ackles is inappropriate for Cap, too?
-- Rob
> Sure sounds like everyone�s high on McPartlin, who evidently just
>lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh.
I'd love to see Captain Awesome play Captain America. As long as they
cast Sarah Lancaster as Sharon Carter.
-- Rob
Awesome, yes. Sarah ... can't see her as a blonde.
>In article <pbb9n5pud1chcu3vq...@4ax.com>,
> Rob Jensen <Shut...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:31 -0500, David <diml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Sure sounds like everyone�s high on McPartlin, who evidently just
>> >lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh.
>>
>> I'd love to see Captain Awesome play Captain America. As long as they
>> cast Sarah Lancaster as Sharon Carter.
>>
>> -- Rob
>
>Awesome, yes. Sarah ... can't see her as a blonde.
Yes, you can. In a lot of episodes of Everwood, season 2 (and a bit
of season 3), as underage Ephram's college-aged girlfriend (and his
sister Delia's babysitter). Perhaps the single most important
character in the series who was not a lead.
There's a huge reason that I want Ellie to be the next one who finds
out Chuck's identity: because it might just lead to more screen time
for Lancaster, who I think is criminally underused.
-- Rob
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:50:14 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <pbb9n5pud1chcu3vq...@4ax.com>,
> > Rob Jensen <Shut...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:31 -0500, David <diml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Sure sounds like everyone�s high on McPartlin, who evidently just
> >> >lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh.
> >>
> >> I'd love to see Captain Awesome play Captain America. As long as they
> >> cast Sarah Lancaster as Sharon Carter.
> >>
> >> -- Rob
> >
> >Awesome, yes. Sarah ... can't see her as a blonde.
>
> Yes, you can. In a lot of episodes of Everwood, season 2 (and a bit
> of season 3), as underage Ephram's college-aged girlfriend (and his
> sister Delia's babysitter). Perhaps the single most important
> character in the series who was not a lead.
hubba hubba
http://www.carnivorous-carnival.com/gallery/nerble%20-%20everwood%20-%20s
arah%20lancaster%2001.jpg
>
> There's a huge reason that I want Ellie to be the next one who finds
> out Chuck's identity: because it might just lead to more screen time
> for Lancaster, who I think is criminally underused.
I agree we need to find more work for Lancaster, but that's exactly why
I *don't* want her in Captain America, which I hope ends a lot of
careers.
Hmmm...I've never seen her as anything else (Everwood).
Why do you hope that? (I'm not being disingenuous. I was never a
Marvel reader.)
Heck - she was a blonde going all the way back to "Saved by the Bell:
The New Class"!
I think that was before I watched TV.
This is the version of Cap where the director is embarrassed about the
costume, so they're changing his origin from 'super soldier' to 'USO
song and dance man' -- JJ should be fired off the project on the spot.
Say what?
He does not sing or dance. They justify the costume as being intended
to raise the men's morale, so, yes, he's with the USO at first, but
then charges off to be heroic.
You haven't been reading the memos? The director says the costume
doesn't make any sense, so instead of wrapping their super soldier in a
flag and sending him out to kick Japanazi ass and inspire the citizens
and rally the troops, they put him in a USO show to sing and dance and
entertain. And then when he eventually does go fight evil, he adapts
his spangly show leotards, but makes them all muted and dark because ...
because the director is a fucktard, and needs to be fired. There. I
said it.
IT'S THE FREAKING 1940S! HE'S CAPTAIN AMERICA!! IT'S A SET UP FOR THE
AVENGERS MOVIE, WHICH IS FULL OF PEOPLE IN COSTUMES!!!!!
If you're embarrassed by the costume, you shouldn't be making a Captain
America movie in the first place.
I can't believe this is the same director that made the Rocketeer, that
fought Katzenweaselberg for the helmet, that staged the shot of Cliff
Secord posed in the spotlight against the American flag before flying
off to the dirigible with the giant swastika on it. He *used* to
understand, but he's lost it along the way.
And that's why I don't want anybody I like anywhere near this sham of a
travesty of a movie.
And why are we casting Sarah as Sharon Carter anyway? Sharon Carter's
not in World War 2; she's current day, after Cap wakes from the ice.
Yes, I haven't been paying attention. The last I heard was it WAS going
to be a WWII Capt. So I assumed it would be the normal origin story.
It's not going to ba set *solely* in WW2 -- and moreover, since Cap
*does* come to the present day at some point in the course of the
Avengers movies *and* Sharon is the most significant female character
in Cap's history, it's logical to be considering who should be cast as
Sharon.
-- Rob
http://io9.com/5466083/captain-america-to-wield-shield-microphone-in-new-
movie
Captain America To Wield Shield, Microphone In New Movie
Wondering how the upcoming Captain America movie will fulfill its own
hype about being unlike any other Marvel movie to date? It'll be by
having its titular hero singing and dancing. And, no, we're not joking.
Director Joe Johnston told the LA Times' Hero Complex blog that the
musical Cap came about through problem solving:
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... So he's up on stage doing songs and
dances with chorus girls and he can't wait to get out and really fight.
When he does go AWOL, he covers up the suit but then, after a few things
happen, he realizes that this uniform allows him to lead. By then, he's
become a star in the public mind and a symbol. The guys get behind him
because he embodies something special.
As Johnston says, that explanation "was never in the comics... 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," which may
miss the point that, in the comics, he wore the costume for propaganda
and morale purposes after becoming a super soldier, which seems an
easier solution to us. Nonetheless, we're already fearing the musical
Cap bodes ill for all but those who loved Jazz Spidey from Spider-Man 3.
That low rumbling you're hearing is the start of fan revolt.
and
> In the first USO sequences, the frustrated patriot will be wearing a
> version that is closer to the classic Jack Kirby-designed costume, but
> then later as the super-soldier hits the war zone he will be wearing a
> sturdier, more muted version that he makes himself that is more like
> battle togs. The stripes across his mid-section, for instance, will be
> straps, not colored fabric.
>
> "He realizes the value of the uniform symbols but he modifies his suit
> and adds some armor, it will be closer to the Cpa costume in some of the
> comics in more recent years . . . this approach, it's the only way we
> could justify ever seeing him on a screen in tights, with the funny
> boots and everything. The government essentially puts him up there as a
> living comic-book character and he rips it off and then reclaims some of
> its imagery after he recognizes the value of it. We think it's the best
> way to keep the costume and explain it at the same time."
Ok this doesn't bode well...
Nope. I'm already in line to stay away. Maybe just rent the rubber
ears version instead.
No. Nothing has been said to suggest that his job in the USO will
involve singing or dancing.
>And then when he eventually does go fight evil,
Which is almost immediately.
he adapts
>his spangly show leotards, but makes them all muted and dark because ...
>because the director is a fucktard, and needs to be fired.
Actually it sounds like they'll switch to a version of Ultimate Cap's
costume, which fits with them using what was basically Ultimate Doctor
Doom, and will probably look better in live action.
There. I
>said it.
>
>IT'S THE FREAKING 1940S! HE'S CAPTAIN AMERICA!! IT'S A SET UP FOR THE
>AVENGERS MOVIE, WHICH IS FULL OF PEOPLE IN COSTUMES!!!!!
Uh-hunh. And in each of the Marvel movies they've given a reason for
the costume. In Spider-Man, it was to conceal his age while
performing using his powers. In Iron Man it was because the costume
is the powers. In Fantastic Four it was because regular clothing
didn't mesh with their powers. What's Captain America's reason?
>And why are we casting Sarah as Sharon Carter anyway? Sharon Carter's
>not in World War 2; she's current day, after Cap wakes from the ice.
But she was the identical little sister, and later niece of Peggy
Carter, who Cap knew in World War II.
[snip]
> 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
WTF! This is retarded.
--
"The less you know what you're doing, the easier it is to go to new
places. You just have to surrender. It's the muse. That's the whole art
of playing. It has nothing to do with notes." - Neil Young
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:58:07 -0700, Anim8rFSK wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > 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
>
> WTF! This is retarded.
You sound like you like it a lot more than I do.