Apparently, it takes a team to make Steve Rogers into Captain America. Screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Staphen McFeely have singed on to write the script for The First Avenger: Captain America. With a director and now screenwriters, the film about Cap’ is well underway.
The team of Markus and McFeely have been responsible for the first two Narnia films, You Kill Me and won Emmys for writing The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. With such a mixed batch of films, it’s hard to have complete faith that that Marvel is making the absolute best decision. Many industry insiders were hoping for a more classic choice of screenwriter, like Zak Penn (Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Electra), for the adaptation.
THR reports that Marvel man Kevin Feige will be producing, while director Joe Johnston (Hidalgo) hopped on board just last week. Johnston is also a somewhat interesting choice, but he does have a graphic novel adaptation under his belt: The Rocketeer. His experience on that film should also help him in locating the Captain America movie in it’s WWII timeframe.
Although Captain America has been killed off in recent years, his symbol as a true comic book hero has never waned. Created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, and born Steve Rogers, Captain America has never once taken the easy way out. He was unable to join the army due to physical conditions and, rather than quit, he went in for some medical adjustments that made him the nearly indestructible and immortal hero that you will see on the screen in 2011. The film will follow Captain America through his initial transformation and through some of his trials in WWII.
Captain America is often said to be a goody-two-shoes, so it’s no wonder Marvel has picked some scribes that know their way around some more earnest material like the Narnia movies. In order to capture Captain, you have to preserve his golly-gee attitude. Cap’ has never wavered, never once gotten stuck in black goo and joined the dark side. He’s always been portrayed as nothing if not a true hero.
