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41 responses to “DiCaprio & Pitt Are Marvel's Top Choices For "Captain America"”

  1. R.A. Porter

    I just don't like it. Unless they're going to completely skip over his origin story, even Leo is too old. They should find a good, young actor and groom him.

    I'm still hoping for Scott Porter (and not just because we share a last name!) He's young enough to pull off a teenage recruit, and athletic enough for the role. And his work on FNL has been amazing.

  2. Mike Olbinski

    Can you imagine an Avengers movie with Downey Jr., Norton, DiCaprio and Pitt? That would be insanity.

  3. The Trousered Ape

    Yeah – the question is – can Marvel keep them? If they fumble their actor contracts like their director contracts…ugh

  4. Cap'n Schwartz

    I dont like it either….. Decaprio I cant see at all doing this… not a representation of how I imagine Captain America, large guy, sculptured leader, brooding voice…. I cant see it…

  5. Cap'n Schwartz

    Well I dunno if Mo's going to post any other rumors or not, but aside from Marvel fumbling their director contract (JF), they also have done a pretty good job at miffing Norton on not giving him accolades and credit for certain aspects of the Hulk (itsd why you dont see him doing many promos for tyhe Hulk. So Marvel might have 2 great launches, and now they might frakkin ruin it!

  6. R.A. Porter

    Part of those accolades Norton wants are for his “rewrite” of Zak Penn's script. Even though the WGA arbitration committee recently decided he hadn't made a significant enough contribution to it to warrant a credit.

    I love Norton for a lot of reasons, but he can be a bit of a prima donna.

  7. Cap'n Schwartz

    Apparently he did a ton of collaboration to re-write a ton of the script as well as a bunch of personal time to do a lot of editing as well. He is not happy with marvel not giving him credit on those items…I'm hopin Marvel makes amends with him and JF so they can prfoceeed with some killer sequels…

  8. R.A. Porter

    I know he says that, and he might have done a lot of editing work, but the way the WGA arbitrates credit disputes is pretty detailed. Three separate writers are selected for each dispute. They work anonymously – they don't even know who the other two arbitrators are – and review a crapload of drafts and documentation to determine what percent of the script has been contributed by each writer.

    Here's screenwriter John August on how it works (and how the WGA is looking to change it subtly.)

    Now, I don't know with 100% certainty that the arbitration committee didn't screw this up and screw Norton out of his credit, but I'm inclined to think they didn't.

  9. Cap'n Schwartz

    Oh…. didnt know that was how it worked. Thats a good link actually, thanks for including that. Maybe he has a hangup on punctuation, and was adding commas like crazy throughout the script?!? I dunno, I pretty much hear what you might be hearing on wht he claims, and he is not happy with marvel at the moment and its why we didnt see him doing a ton of hulk promo's… like you said I hope he's not being a pre-madonna and allowign others to get credit on the movie creation as well.

  10. R.A. Porter

    He may not have done a ton of promo work, but he did do that *awesome* bit on Kimmel.

  11. The Trousered Ape

    a “pre-madonna” – lol

    That's point worthy!

  12. The Trousered Ape

    Very interesting stuff. I had no idea so much work went into deciding who wrote what and how much credit and residuals those individuals get.

    I wonder what would happen if we applied those same rules to this site…lol

  13. Cap'n Schwartz

    @R.A somethings wrong with my browser here at work I no longer have options to reply to your response (or perhaps the pop critics dont want me to), but yeah the kimmel bit was a riot with that little Hulk guy…

  14. R.A. Porter

    I just liked when Guillermo started to cry, and then hugged Norton. That was awesome!

  15. R.A. Porter

    If we applied those same rules here, I think you'd be a millionaire!

  16. The Trousered Ape

    That means I could buy a million rubber duckies from the $1 store and fill up the pool with them (if I had a pool).

  17. R.A. Porter

    You could just use the bathtub.

  18. The Trousered Ape

    Genuis!

  19. Dadofiandi

    Wasn't Troy like that? Who was the dude in Fast and Furious and other bad movies I never saw, the blonde guy, he'd be ok as Capt America, assuming he can act.

  20. The Trousered Ape

    Vanilla Ice?

  21. Dadofiandi

    Was he in that movie? Well I meant the actor not the poser. Paul Walker or something

  22. The Trousered Ape

    No Vanilla Ice – i was just being funny. Now it's not funny anymore.

  23. Cap'n Schwartz

    It was Paul Walker, although alot of people wouldnt agree, he would be a good Capn America…I've said it since day one!

  24. The Trousered Ape

    See, I knew you were old…

  25. Jason A Clark

    Scott Porter is a good actor from what I've seen, but I don't buy him in the role either.

  26. Jason A Clark

    Paul Walker couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

  27. Jason A Clark

    Well, I don't know enough about Norton's work on this film to know if he deserved a credit, but the WGA has been having some issues on this matter for a while now. I have yet to hear anyone say they didn't screw over George Clooney on the Leatherheads script credit. I mean, the guy dropped out as a voting member over the whole thing.

    I could easily see them screwing someone else over including Norton.

  28. Cap'n Schwartz

    Well I was born yesterday so I'm only 1 day old….

  29. Cap'n Schwartz

    Thats because he's portraying someone who is hyper-ventilating!!!

  30. The Trousered Ape

    Ah – so it's not from THE day 1, if from your day 1…

  31. The Trousered Ape

    Paul Walker is the paper bag…I think they call that method acting

  32. Dadofiandi

    If it was wet maybe he could. Honestly I never saw him besides movie trailers.

  33. Jason A Clark

    You're so lucky.

  34. Copa CabANA

    Ditto.

  35. Dadofiandi

    I gotta say it but the gay gladiator ( i think he is the gay one) with the blonde hair on NBC would make a good Thor.

  36. David C.

    Regardless of DiCaprio's acting chops and bankability, that baby face of his can not pull off Captain America.

  37. Mike Olbinski

    He didn't look that “baby face” in Blood Diamond though.

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