In an article oddly timestamped April 30, 2009 as of my writing this, Yahoo! has revealed what it claims to be an exclusive look at some new posters for the upcoming Captain America and Thor films. The new posters are going to be distributed at Comic-Con this weekend, and attendees will have the chance for the actors to sign them. As of now not much has been seen of what Captain America is going to look like in his upcoming film. I recommend checking out their website for a look at both posters and clicking past the break where I scrimshawed some words of my own about the posters.
Captain America looks like Captain America. He’s got the shield and blue and white suit with a star. Interestingly he’s carrying a gun, but he did used to carry one back in WWII so it’s not that big a deal. It’s a little strange that his helmet doesn’t have his trademark wings on it but it’s not a huge loss if they don’t show up.
Also, Thor looks like Thor…. yep.
Overall if you’re concerned greatly at this point about the way the characters look you need to calm yourself down. Try not to judge the finished product until you’ve actually, I don’t know, seen some footage from it. We were all skeptical of Iron Man before that came out and it turned out to be the best comic book to film translation we’ve seen to date. Let’s give Marvel the benefit of the doubt that they actually know how to handle their own characters and that these new films will be up to snarf snuff.
And yes, I carved the above into whale ivory as well.