Captain America: The First Avenger was possibly one of the most disappointing comic book movies I have seen. The next time we see the All American Hero will be in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers where he will be joining the team into battle against an alien menace and Loki. So what happens with the Captain after that?
According to the films screenwriters Chris Markus and Stephen McFeely, the Captain America sequel may end up revisiting the character’s past. They wanted to make sure the film’s sequel features some action in the 1940’s and some of it take place in the modern day.
We certainly want at least a portion of the ’40’s, I think. The span of [Captain America: The First Avenger] is about two or three years, and there’s a few times in the film where you jump four months ahead, you jump six months ahead. So we did that with the intention of saying, ‘Okay, there are certainly unseen adventures that Captain America went on in that period that if we want to, we can go back and explore later.
In discussing a movie full of 1940s action, Marku said,
It might be doing a disservice not to address the present day Cap, particularly because so much of the comic book run right now is present day Cap – that ‘man out of time’ is the icon. The Captain America that most people know is really from kind of the reboot, when Stan Lee brought him back in ’63 and ’64, frozen from a block of ice. So his biggest personality trait is that he’s this man out of time, and for us, we didn’t have the opportunity [to explore that]. This was a guy in the RIGHT time.
The writing team also talked about exploring some of the other comic book character’s supporting cast, such as Sharon Carter (a present-day relative of the first film’s Peggy Carter) and The Falcon. Markus went on to say,
I want both of them! Sharon is meaty, almost to a point where you get a little uncomfortable because her relation to Peggy has shifted over the years, as time has passed. She’s the sister, she’s the cousin, she’s the niece. You have to walk a fine line there because it does seem like you’re dating your girlfriend’s daughter. Falcon is awesome. We can’t play with time so much to have Cap go back to Harlem in the ’70’s and clean up the streets, but it would be awesome to go straight up, like, ‘Shaft’ with Cap and the Falcon.
I really hope they take measures to make sure the sequel is better than the first one. They still have the opportunity to redeem themselves with the sequel. My personal recommendation would be to select a new director and find actors for the new characters that aren’t going to phone in their performances. I’ll still see the sequel, but right now I don’t have a lot of hope for it.
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