The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum

UPDATE: Aintitcool has gone and asked the right people the right questions over at Marvel and have come back with a definitive "No" from the studio on this rumor. Consider it done. Check it out here.

Seems like today is the day for all kinds of casting rumors....so Aintitcoolnews (via MTV) is reporting that Marvel is considering Will Smith for the role of Captain America. Before people start getting all "No way Captain America should be played by a black man!" lets step back and lets ponder this: Will Smith will not be playing Steve Rogers but rather Isaiah Bradley. Who is Bradley, you ask? Well you see, after Steve Rogers was given the Super Soldier Serum, scientists tried to recreate it and tested the serum on some black soldiers. Bradley is a product of that experiment and became Captain America for a short time. Now it's been reported in the past that a Captain America film will be a World War II story so that would gel with the idea of Isaiah Bradley existing in the universe (as Bradley got older, the affects of the serum caused him to become almost childlike) and it seems to have been neglected in mentioning this possibility in any of those previous stories (this proves my nerdiness, no?). Hmmm, seems very interesting so far. What do you guys think? If this theory doesn't fly, can Will Smith play Steve Rodgers?

So Iron Man was released in May and made a shit ton of money. Not even a week after it release, Marvel had announced Iron Man 2 for the summer of 2010. The director, Jon Favreau, is at this pint not involved whatsoever in the deal. So what's the deal? Well, it seems like even though Favreau delivered what at this point is the biggest movie of the summer, Marvel Studios head David Maisel is not willing to give Favreau the money he deserves. Aintitcool has a good write up on the situation over here and IESB.net has the original story which you can check out here. So after enduring all the bullshit Marvel movies, we finally get a film worth of the material and they're is ready to fuck it all up again and begin making the same mistakes from the past. That's when we end up with shit like this, and this, and don't forget this. Although the fanboy in me got all giddy when those upcoming release dates were announced last month, realistically, there is no way a quality film can be made and meet those deadlines. There's no way. So I pray that Maisel wakes the fuck up and realizes what needs to be done to keep this ball rolling in the right direction and gets the right team formed. And that means Favreau gets what he deserves: Iron Man 2.

While there has been no official word or offers made, there has been speculation that Brad Pitt's name is bieng tossed around over at Marvel to play the mighty Thor. As some of you may or may not have heard, the official date of June 4th 2010 has already been set for the films release on the big screen. With director Matthew Vaughn's holding deal expiring, the film doesn't have any solid director on lock either. It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds and who get's to rock the helmet and swing the ol' Mjolnir into villains heads. I don't know about his acting skills, but Triple H looks like he should be walking around with a giant hammer. -partymarty

Now that Marvel has taken the reigns of all its IP's via the Marvel Studios production company, they seem poised to release a steady flow of films to quench your superhero thirst. With the huge numbers Iron Man pulled this weekend, it should come to no surprise that they're already planning for a sequel. But furthermore, more info was released via Yahoo! Financial about other projects: Iron Man & Thor in 2010 followed by TWO Avengers themed films in 2011. Yeah, it's good time to love comics.