Nick Cassavetes to Direct 'Captain America?'
Filed under: Action, RumorMonger, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Over at CHUD, they're reporting that acclaimed actress Gena Rowlands was on television recently and mentioned that "her son was originally going to direct an Iron Man movie...he's now instead thinking of doing Captain America." Rowlands' son -- with legendary actor/director John Cassavetes -- is Nick Cassavetes. Nick doesn't really have any projects of this type on his resume, but he was attached to the awesome-looking Iron Man for quite a while before Jon Favreau took the reigns. Not to suggest that Rowlands is unreliable by any means, but for now just chalk this up as a tasty little rumor.
Nick Cassavetes has a pretty diverse filmography. Like his father, he was an actor before he started directing -- you might remember Nick as Dietrich Hassler in Face/Off -- a movie with some of the greatest character names of all time. He started his directing career with smaller films like Unhook the Stars and the interesting She's So Lovely, with John Travolta and Sean Penn. From there, he jumped to more commercial fare like the decent Denzel Washington flick John Q and the favorite movie of pretty much every female I know -- The Notebook. Most recently, he gave us the kinda ridiculous Alpha Dog, which featured an unintentionally hilarious performance by a fat-suit clad Sharon Stone. So the guy can do a lot of different kinds of material, sure. But do you think he'd be a good choice for Captain America? And we still don't have a cast for the thing -- who do you want to see step into the tights? This guy?
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10-22-2007 @ 9:41PM
Philip said...
How about this:
We don't make this movie. Marvel begins treating their stable of comics like a Derby breed of horse, instead of a mule. We get maybe 2 good movies about their A-list heroes every couple of years. Sorry, Captain America isn't A-list. In the 40's, yea. In the 21st century, no. America spoke pretty loudly I think about how they feel about certain comic book heroes last summer. If your name isn't Batman or Spiderman, you're casual fodder.
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10-22-2007 @ 11:09PM
MosquitoControl said...
Packard Walsh can do as he pleases.
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10-23-2007 @ 6:43AM
Richard von Busack said...
There goes that Nick Cassavetes, running the family business into the ground.
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10-26-2007 @ 11:11AM
MICHEAL HALL said...
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FAN OF CAPTIN AMERICA. I HAVE A HUGE COLLECTION OF CAPTAIN AMERICA COMIC BOOKS I FIND THEM TO BE NOT JUST COLLECTABLES BUT FASICNATING INTEGRATED HONEST WORKS OF ART ON MANY OCCASIONS WHEN I READ THE COMIC STRIPTS I VISUALIZE MY SELF AS CAPTIAN AMERICA BUT EVER SINCE I SEEN TOM CRUICE IN MENORITY REPORT I STARTED VISULIZING TOM CRUISE AS CAPTIAN AMERICA AS I READ THRUE THE PAGES OF MY COMIC BOOKS AND I MUST SAY IT WAS SPECTACULER I THINK CRUISE WOULD BE A GOOD CHOICE AS CAPTIAN AMERICA BECAUSE OF HIS ACTING ABLITIES, STARDOM, AND BEING ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED ACTERS . EVEN IF HE DOSN'T GET THE STARRING ROLE AS CAPTIAN AMERICA I THINK HE WILL ALWAYS BE #1 ON THE LIST OF MOVIE DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS, ECT. THERS NO STOPPING CRUISE I WANT THIS MESSAGE HERD ALL OVER TELEVISION CRUISE YOUR #1 BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY SPELLING MIGHT NEED CORRECTING BUT IM IN A RUSH TO GET TO WORK
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10-26-2007 @ 8:43PM
Ryan said...
If done right this could be one of the better comic to movie series because cap is in the top five of most reconized heroes behind spidey, bats, supes, and hulk. Given the right director like micheal bay or the guy who did the bourne series this would be awesome starting out with the origin story in ww2 ending with him frozen and the second leads into modern day and him adapting then the third brings the Avengers together. Don't know who would play cap yet, but Nick Fury- Tommy Lee Jones, Viper- Milla Jovovich, Red Skull- guy from farscape that played scorpius, WW2 Nick Fury- ben browder.
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10-31-2007 @ 4:57PM
stephen martin said...
Oh please, anyone but Tom Cruise ought to sign on for the Captain America role.I originally envision that whoever is to play the role should have the look of the then wrestler, Brock Lesnar.Not only can Tom Cruise not act but Cap's physical appearance is that of a super-soldier, not jock/athlete.I cannot say yet who ought to play Cap's role.
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