Films
Chris Evans as Captain America as depicted in the film, Captain America: The First Avenger.- Captain America (1944 serial)
Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character adapted into another medium with the release of the 1944 movie serial Captain America, which starred Dick Purcell. The serial portrays the hero as a district attorney named Grant Gardner and removes many important elements of the character, such as his trademark shield and his sidekick Bucky Barnes.
- 3 Dev Adam (1973)
3 Dev Adam (translated as Three Mighty Men but also known as Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man) is a 1973 Turkish film featuring the characters of Captain America (sans shield) and Mexican wrestling superhero and serial star Santo (persona only) as heroes from the Americas called to Turkey to take on a bizarre, bushy-eyebrowed, green version of Spider-Man as the serial-killing villain.
- Captain America (1990 film)
The 1990 film Captain America, starring Matt Salinger, was shot in Yugoslavia. It depicted the creation of Captain America from weak soldier Steve Rogers, his fight in World War II and subsequent apparent death, his being found decades later frozen in ice, and his realization and comprehension that our enemies from the war are now our allies, as well as the hero's battle against the Red Skull, who in the film is an Italian fascist rather than a German Nazi.
This film was never officially released in the United States in theaters, but it was released on VHS by 1992. It was also shown on the US based SyFy cable television network in mid July 2011, as a tie in with the new screen film. In 2012, DVD copies of the film have been on sale in HMV in the UK.
- Ultimate Avengers (2006)
Captain America appeared in the animated films Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2, both released direct to video in 2006 and featuring an Ultimate Marvel version of Captain America. In this version, his identity is known to everyone and Nick Fury and Betty Ross found him in the ice. He was voiced by Justin Gross.
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
A live action film titled Captain America: The First Avenger, produced by Marvel Studios and directed by Joe Johnston, was released on July 22, 2011. The film stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America, Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt / the Red Skull, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky. Predominantly set in the 1940s, the film shows the origin of the eponymous superhero, his service to the United States Armed Forces during World War II, and the events which left him frozen in the Arctic for 70 years, before being rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the present day.
- The Avengers (2012)
Chris Evans reprises the role of Steve Rogers / Captain America in the 2012 film The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon. The film features Captain America sporting a new modernized costume, more in tone and design to his comic-book counterpart.
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
The sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger was announced with an official release date of April 4, 2014, to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Chris Evans will reprise his role as the titular character and the film will be directed by the Russo brothers. In July 2012, it was announced that the official title for the sequel will be Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Sebashian Stan returning as the movie's villain.
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Famous quotes containing the word films:
“Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society’s porous face.”
—Marjorie Rosen (b. 1942)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)