2nd Poll results: Should The Incredible Hulk be the villain of The Avengers movie of 2011 ?

Second poll with only a total of 6 votes :

Yes 17% 1 vote

No 83% 5 votes

Again, I think I was testing the waters here with such an outlandish question at such an early point in time to even predict a screenplay. But as some movies go a simple idea is usually used to interpret ate a script for a grand scale blockbuster to attract the masses and not just the comic book character loving folk ! Here I was thinking back to the early day Avengers comic book of the 1960's when the Hulk was an avenger even for a short period of time of two issues in 1963, three if you include the 1999 "The Avengers 1 1/2" (pictured also here) but actually stayed with the book until issue 5. A plot was involved in issue 3 where The Avengers try to locate the Hulk as he could be a menace to society. They fail to catch him, and Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner allies himself with the Hulk in a bid to rule over humanity. Phew !!

The line up for the first issue of the Avengers was Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp and this looks like the line-up for The Avengers movie of 2011 with the addition of Captain America which like The Avengers comic book of 1964, Captain America made his reappearance in issue 3 after an absence of near ten years since Captain America Comics issue 78, 1954. Because of the end of World War II, Captain America was fighting the Communists and the Soviet Union as oppose to the Nazis and this was dismissed in his reappearance because his body had been frozen and preserved after a failed mission near the end of World War II and found by The Avengers where the body had been thawed by warmer waters. Now, could the screenplay follow along the lines of some of the history I have mentioned above, keeping it simple and using the Avengers trying to restrain the control of the Incredible Hulk ?? I guess we will just have to wait and see !!

Our 1st Poll results: Who should play Captain America in the 2011 movie ?

Well considering this is our first poll with only a total of 11 votes :0(.

The results are as follows on our newly created blog:

Matt Damon 63% 7 votes

Leonardo DiCaprio 27% 3 votes

Clive Owen 9% 1 vote

Daniel Craig 0% 0 votes

Although a dissappointing number of votes which really cannot draw us to any positive conclusion at such a time but to raise awareness to the question, it is interesting to see that Matt Damon got a majority here. Daniel Craig has not even been considered for the role and was just placed here as an odd choice, playing James Bond would probably not allow him to be considered for the part but would have been interesting to see if any thought would have been made for him had he not been playing James Bond. In my opinion he could have been a good choice because of his rugged looks and blonde features suitable enough for the Steve Rogers aka.

On trawling the internet recently I discovered that Will Smith had been contacted as an interest for the role and that was even before Barack Obama had won the U.S. Elections early November. Though in Marvel's Ultimate Series Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been turned into an African American character and also appears after the credits in this year's Iron Man movie played by Samuel L. Jackson. Another actor who has been contacted also is Doctor Who/Torchwood star John Barrowman who at the San Diego Comic-Con in July this year ended up admitting there had been discussions with his agents and meetings on the possibility of him playing the star spangled hero. Clive Owen another consideration, though some fan reaction to this is "They're making a Captain America movie, not Captain Britain !". Leonardo DiCaprio was placed here because that it Marvel's personal choice to play Captain America, though he has second choice here in the poll Marvel's second choice for the role of the patriotic super-soldier is said to be Brad Pitt. So no conclusion, we'll raise this question again in a future poll !