Aaand the newest name in the Cap lottery is... Will Smith!?

Dumb.

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb...

Did I mention how dumb this idea is?



I mean, seriously... I can get over other changes in race castings (Nick Fury, Kingpin)... but Captian America? Jesus H. Christ on a hopping pogo stick...

Isn't Captain America suposed to be super ripped?

Seriously if he is the new Captain America I can imagine him goin, "Aw hell naw!! Those Nazi's are goin down!!"

That is one of the worst casting choices I've ever heard.

I wonder if Will Smith will get to KTFO of Hitler

Yeah, but then they'd cast 50 Cent and make the shield a spinner.

In all seriousness, I'm all for so-called "colorblind casting" when it makes sense. And to be perfectly fair, Mark Millar originally wanted to make Ultimate Cap a black man but the Marvel head office shot it down. However, this just feels like OMG! casting for OMG! casting sakes--like making Richard Lewis play Himmler just because people will go "OMG WTF" and flock to theaters to see it.

Worst. Idea. EVER.


Also ... WHO THE HELL IS DEREK LUKE???

I'll never look at Richard Lewis the same EVAR again! ROFFLES!

But yeah, don't care about Cap being black...but Will Smith? Can't we get someone a little more serious? Ah well, at least it's not "The Hoff" as Nick Fury bad.

Uh, FYI, Nick Fury's been black for awhile, not just for Iron Man dude, he's been that way since Ultimate Spiderman introduced him a couple years ago I think, he was even based off of Samuel L. Jackson. Kingpin though, he was only black because of the Daredevil movie, and because Vihng Rames is a badass.

Fix'd!

Ving Rhames

If this is true, I will not see the movie. I doubt that it is true. After two successful movies, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, both filled with fanboy goodness, I don't think that Marvel would be so stupid as to alter Captain America like this.


That said, I wouldn't even want Will Smith to play The Falcon.

I always get the two mixed up
And now I feel like a dumbass, oh, well they're both badasses still.

No worries, I have the same problem,... I usually get Harvey Keitel and Roy Dotrice mixed up...

I can actually totally see the US using black troops for their secret human experimentation program 60 years ago....

I'm pretty open-minded (or so I'd like to think). While I'm not really sure if I could ever swallow Captain America as a black guy, I am pretty sure that if it's at all possible, I can't see it being Will Smith.

They should get Eddie Murphy. He can do other races really well.

The thing with Will Smith is, as one of my friends says...He always plays the same kind of character, but he manages to make it work within the context of the story. So, I think he might work very well from a narrative perspective. It's just...Cap is about as Arian Übermench as you can get.

Ofcourse, maybe it's not the role of Cap that he was offered: rather, it's the role of Falcon, for which I daresay he could work.

Maybe he's going to play Bucky...

"Awww, HELL no! Cap, I KNOW that Nazi did not shoot that sh!t at ME!"

plz to see Six Degrees of Separation

Point taken, but that movie sucks ballz.

BAGGER VANCE'D!

Please see my last post.

that's what I was referencing... really bad movies.


would you have prefered "BAD BOYS II'D!"?

OMFG KILL MARTIN LAWRENCE WITH FIRE!

"Shit just got real..."

Yeah, that's about I feel.

Good God, didn't anybody learn anything from WWW.

As if a) that's the only movie he's done and b) his movies don't make money.


$$$ for studios = more Will Smith

Wild Wild West was like 10 years ago dude, come on.

One thought me & my bro had was this: what if Will isn't hired to play Steve Rogers, but rather Isaiah Bradley, the Captain America from "Truth: Red White & Black?" Basically, the book (in continuity) says that the US government didn't just jump into the fire with both feet and start experimenting on white dudes with the Super Soldier serum, but rather pulled a Tuskeegee and rounded up some black G.I.s to experiment on first--leading to Isaiah Bradley, the black Captain America.

Slight tangent: go pick this graphic novel up & read it regardless. It's an awesome piece of work.

Edit: Wiki'd for truthiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Bradley

Points for historical plausibility

Anti-points for "fun time at the movies"

I never read that one: "red white and black." I didn't even know that they were doing a Captain America movie...

Wild


Wild


West

...was bad, yes, but nowhere near comparable to this kind of movie. "Hancock," yes. I mean, Hell, let's just heap on every movie Ewen McGregor makes because he was in "Phantom Menace."

THIS JUST IN: Will Smith will NOT be playing Cap.

Although I would like to see a "Truth" movie now. And I have to say, AICN's tone is borderline insensitive about this whole thing. But then again, what else to expect from big angry nerds, right?

*elbows fandom*

Well, at least Cap isn't going to played by........


A 50 year old tourist in a hawaiian shirt.

Seriously, who's in the running for the role right now. as we speak?

So are you saying you liked Hancock, or you didn't?

Last I heard... um, no one really. Leonardo DiCaprio & Matt Damon were thrown about, but nothing materialized.

And for the record, I liked Hancock.

I'd honestly would rather see a nobody who could both look AND act the part, rather than a supposed "big-name" who couldn't pull the character off.

Oh, me too definitely. Name actor or not, I just want someone who can carry the role.

Was it that long ago...

Yeah it was bad but I think that's mainly in part to the director attempting to "recreate" the same idiotic MIB movie only a western.

FTR Will Smith can play whoever the hell he wants.

Just not Captain America. A change in race just doesn't make a lot of sense when Captain America has always been white. I personally had no problem with Kingpin or Nick Fury being black. They're more or less secondary characters unlike Superman, Batman, and Marvel's long list of superheroes.

Hancock was idiotic. It started out with promise (a superhero in need of reform) than after that went in so many directions I didn't know what it was trying to be.

lol, I love internet logic

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38258

They should get a Mexican to play Cap just to piss off Lou Dobbs.

*figured Haggis would say Cap should be played by an asian*

This is not correct. Isaiah Bradley was a result of an attempt to re-create the Captain America serum. The formula that turned Steve Rogers into Captain America was lost, and they were trying to figure it out again, but Rogers was the original guinea pig.

Cap was kicking Hitler's ass in 1941, and Truth takes place in 1942.