Well now, it seems that we can expect to see more super heroes coming to the silver screen. But this time it will not a web-head or the Fantastic Four. No, this time we will see the one and only Capt. America! coming out of the comic books and into the theaters!

The next big masked hero to invade a mesh screen will be Captain America, it seems.

Avi Arad, the zillionaire Marvel magnate in charge of such properties as “Spider-Man” and “X-Men”, tells that the all-round American hero will be fronting his own movie in the very near future.

The new “Captain America” movie won’t be the first time the shield-gripping superhero has been the subject of a film. A direct-to-video offering surfaced in 1991 that starred unknown Matt Salinger as Capt. America/Steve Rogers, “Robocop” fave Ronny Cox as President Tom Kimball and Scott Paulin (“Teen Wolf”) as The Red Skull.

Arad says with recent events in history, it’s the perfect time to bring the patriotic hero back to the screen.

It’s the “perfect time in history” to raise the Cap flag again, Arad tells ASAP. [Read the rest]

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