Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige recently confirmed sequels for Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, but both characters are already getting a sequel in The Avengers, which just started production.
Captain America is singular to Thor and the other Marvel movies that preceded it in that the movie is a period piece, set during the 1940s era of World War II. Like the character's history in Marvel comic books, Captain America will find himself frozen in a block of ice by the end of the movie, only to be thawed out in the present day. Recent "spy pics" from the First Avenger Times Square shoot caught Cap (Chris Evans) meeting with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) in a scene that likely has the S.H.I.E.L.D. director offering the hero a spot on the Avengers team.
Further evidence of Cap's present-day reanimation came in an interview with MTV where Evans basically admitted that Captain America will be in the present by the end of First Avenger, and stated that The Avengers will see Cap in the present.
Well, we start on The Avengers on Monday, and in The Avengers, it's modern world. Even in the first Cap movie, they bring him into the modern world. That does happen. So it's established. And then in The Avengers they start to explore this — he's a fish out of water; he's a man... not in his time, and he's just coming to terms with the way the world is now and how much it's changed since the forties.
Evans discussed some of Cap's potential challenges of dealing with the modern world in an interview with The LA Times.
Just think about text messaging. That’s the way I communicate with my friends now. If one them calls me I’m like, "Why didn’t you just text me?" And that’s pretty new. Cellphones haven’t been around that long — I remember when people didn’t have them, really — and the Internet has totally changed the world in a relatively short period of time. Think of how strange all of it would be to someone from the 1940s who looks around and wonders what happened to all the things that were important to them.
Cap's "fish out of water" circumstances won't make things easier on him when he joins The Avengers. Whether it comes from his older-world values or just ideological differences, Evans also told MTV that Cap and Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) will be "polar opposites" — not unlike their comic book counterparts — and that difference will create "this kind of friction between myself and Tony Stark" in The Avengers.
They're polar opposites. One guy is flash and spotlight and smooth, and the other guy is selfless and in the shadows and kind of quiet. And they have to get along. They explore that, and it's pretty fun.
Outside of living in a new era, another change in store for Captain America will be his outfit, as Evans revealed that Cap will get "a new costume" in The Avengers as he recently "did a camera test with the new suit."
Yeah, it's awesome, it's really cool. I was worried because I started to get really attached to the old one. I got to really start digging it. It's not that easy to move in, but I started really liking it. The first time we tried a new one on, I was like, "Oh, I miss the old one."
That a lot of changes for a character that has yet to be seen by the viewing public.
