So in celebration of the comic book dominance of Hollywood here are first looks at the up and coming Captain America: The First Avenger, Spiderman Reboot, and X-Men: First Class.
Captain America: The First Avenger
I was never really the biggest Captain America fan. The whole idea of Cap seemed a bit forced and desperate on Marvels part to seem relevant during WWII when DC was dominating. However, I did start to fall in love with the character during the epic Civil War series when Captain America turned away from the security of S.H.E.I.L.D., went toe to toe against Iron Man, all to appose what he felt was an unjust law. Will this get me in the theater to see the film? 50/50. I have been a fan of Chris Evans since his starring role in Not Another Teen Movie and, let's face it, he was the best actor in the Fantastic Four. But I'm a tad baffled at the linebacker look that they turned Captain America into. Granted, it's a lot better then the original design but I'd expect to see him more as a mascot for the New England Patriots then on the battlefield. Another plus for the film is Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, V For Vendetta, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Transformers) playing the nemesis Red Skull. My biggest question for this series is, how is Marvel Entertainment planning on getting Captain America, the World War II soldier, to the present to become apart of The Avengers? Time travel? If so, then I'm calling it now: Time travel is what will kill The Avengers series.
Spiderman Reboot
The best thing to come out of the Spiderman franchise was comic book artist Todd McFarlane who went off to create a real hero in Spawn. With that said though, Spiderman is a classic and when you are an awkward, voice crackling teen that doesn't know what is going on with your own body you tend to relate to Spiderman. He wasn't the only one randomly shooting white stuff everywhere, am I right? HA! So it was a shame to see the webslinger get reduced to such a pathetic over-Hollywooded franchise like the old series. For Christ sake, they had the dude turn emo when he got the Venom Symbiote. I know that got all the little girls hot and heavy but every fanboy on the planet attended a Spidey book burning that evening. So when Marvel announced that Spiderman would be rebooted it peeked my interest and the fact that they are risking using a still relative unknown like Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) to portray Peter Parker it shows that Marvel and Disney are taking loyalty to the series seriously.
All that is really known about this flick is that the movie will take place between the time that Peter gets his powers but before he goes off to work freelance for J. Jonah Jameson. So no over testosteroned fast talking in this flick. And hey, if nothing else, at least you'll have Emma Stone to stare at.
P.S. Martin Sheen is set to play Peter's uncle Ben. Not quite sure yet how I feel about that. I'm just going to be thinking about President Bartlet from the West Wing the entire time.
X-Men: First Class
I'm a bit confused about X-Men: First Class and that confusion comes from the casting of January Jones to play Emma Frost. Now, I'm not complaining, it's just that her age does not fit in with the timeline. If you recall, at the end of Wolverine all the mutants which had been experimented on by the government escape and are saved by a really bad CGI rendition of Patrick Stewart's Professor Xavier. Besides having the ability to walk, Professor X looked pretty much the same as he always had. One of the mutants which he saved was a young girl named Emma Frost. So how is it that, in this spin off, Emma Frost is not only no longer a little girl, but looks to be around the same age as a very well quaffed Charles Xavier? Perhaps it's simple shit but discrepancies and poor planning is what kills franchises.
In conclusion, I'm sure all these films will do very well and will produce at least one more sequel before Marvel and Disney reboot them again.
P.S. I hate Thor.
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