Er waren al een flink aantal setfoto's van Captain America, maar tot nu toe was er nog geen officiële blik op Captain America zelf. Vandaag komt daar verandering in, aangezien Chris Evans, gekleed als de superheld op de cover van Entertainment Weekly staat.

Ook stond er in het tijdschrift een goede synopsis. The year is 1942, and Steve Rogers is a scrawny lad who desperately wants to fight Nazis for his country but can’t because he’s been deemed physically unfit. His fate — and his physique — is radically transformed when he signs up for Project: Rebirth, a secret military operation that turns wimps into studs using drugs and assorted sci-fi hoo-ha. There’s a love interest (Major Peggy Carter, played Haley Atwell), there’s a sidekick (Bucky Barnes, played by Sebastian Stans), and there’s the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), Hitler’s treacherous head of advanced weaponry, whose own plan for world domination involves a magical object known as The Tesseract (comic fans know it better as The Cosmic Cube)

En daarnaast vertelde Chris Evans dat hij de rol in eerste instantie driemaal afwees. At the time, I remember telling a buddy of mine, ‘If the movie bombs, I’m f—-ed. If the movie hits, I’m f—-ed!’… I was just scared. I realized my whole decision making process was fear based, and you never want to make a decision out of fear… I can’t believe was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

Captain America draait vanaf 21 juli 2011 in de Nederlandse bioscopen.