WI: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain America

I always wanted to see Arnie play a German soldier or a Nazi or Frankenstein's monster but as Captain America? No.
Arnold playing the Red Skull or the Iron Major would have been cool though.

The Iron Major was a DC villain as was Captain Nazi. Which is a shame since Arnie would be good casting for either and they be good villain for a Captain America movie.
I agree with you that Arnold would not be a good choice for Captain America.
I also did not agree with those producers who thought that Arnie would be good choices for either Sargent Rock or Doc Savage but Arnold was considered for both of those roles.
 
The Iron Major was a DC villain as was Captain Nazi. Which is a shame since Arnie would be good casting for either and they be good villain for a Captain America movie.
I agree with you that Arnold would not be a good choice for Captain America.
I also did not agree with those producers who thought that Arnie would be good choices for either Sargent Rock or Doc Savage but Arnold was considered for both of those roles.
I should have specified that I meant Arnold could be The Iron Major in a Sgt. Rock film, not in a Capt. America one, in other words, Arnold should've played more villains IMO.
 
If Germany had developed any domestic appetite for comics and super heroes you'd almost certainly have Arnold in 1 or 20 of them.
 
Would be Unique, the problem is who would play pre transformation Steve Rodgers(maybe changing setting as a first generation inmigrant here?)
 
Whoever is playing the lead the 1990 Captain America movie is doomed by a low budget and a terrible script. It might be remembered a bit more, but would that make any difference when the MCU rolls around? Probably not. I don't they are going to be put off making Captain America: First Avenger just because Arnie was in the 1990 film.
 
Whoever is playing the lead the 1990 Captain America movie is doomed by a low budget and a terrible script. It might be remembered a bit more, but would that make any difference when the MCU rolls around? Probably not. I don't they are going to be put off making Captain America: First Avenger just because Arnie was in the 1990 film.

Don't let 21st Century Film Corporation (AKA, Cannon Films 2.0) do the movie. Solves that problem right there. A schlock house made a schlock picture. It doesn't mean Captain America was not possible in the 1990s.
 

Don't let 21st Century Film Corporation (AKA, Cannon Films 2.0) do the movie. Solves that problem right there. A schlock house made a schlock picture. It doesn't mean Captain America was not possible in the 1990s.

In retrospect, though, after a decade of decade of cynical Reaganism capped by the Bush Recession, everyone looked for troubled anti-heroes like the Punisher or Dark Knight Batman. A four-color Captain America movie probably would've gotten destroyed at the box office.
 
After a decade of decade of cynical Reaganism capped by the Bush Recession, everyone looked to troubled anti-heroes like the Punisher or Dark Knight Batman or the Road Warrior. A four-color Captain America movie would've gotten destroyed at the box office.

Have you seen Rocky IV? The later 80s and 90s had their moments, but there was still a heck of a lot of room for true blue neon optimist wonderment, with a synthesizer montage backing it all.
 
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Don't let 21st Century Film Corporation (AKA, Cannon Films 2.0) do the movie. Solves that problem right there. A schlock house made a schlock picture. It doesn't mean Captain America was not possible in the 1990s.

Was it a case of 'let' though? Was there any realistic likelihood of getting a bigger studio to do a movie for a character who lacked the kind of name recognition of Superman or Batman? I mean at the time Superman films had been run into the dirt with Superman IV and Tim Burton's Batman had made serious money but even with that as reference point you wound up with the awful 1990 Captain America we know.
 
Was it a case of 'let' though? Was there any realistic likelihood of getting a bigger studio to do a movie for a character who lacked the kind of name recognition of Superman or Batman? I mean at the time Superman films had been run into the dirt with Superman IV and Tim Burton's Batman had made serious money but even with that as reference point you wound up with the awful 1990 Captain America we know.

*Shrugs* Fox got X-Men. A lot of these properties got sold to people that could have done something with them. Its just they did not do anything with them forever, or did crap with them.
 
I personally think he would have played a great Master Man. He's got the accent and has played a villain in the past. Him fighting Captain America would be cool, but I have no idea who could play Captain America.
 
I personally think he would have played a great Master Man. He's got the accent and has played a villain in the past. Him fighting Captain America would be cool, but I have no idea who could play Captain America.

Pardon me if I am not warming up to the idea. >_>

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The one big superhero I could see Arnold Schwarzenegger playing successfully would be the Hulk. Bruce Banner just has to be a scientist working for the military/ industrial complex and he could be a recruited/ refugee German scientist without any problems. Schwarzenegger was occupied with his political career when both Hulk movies came out.
That Wacky Redhead had Schwarzeneggar as the Hulk in an alternate version of the 70's series (with Ted Danson as Bruce Banner)
 
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