{"id":7612,"date":"2010-03-22T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:37:51","slug":"chris-evans-will-throw-captain-americas-mighty-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/22\/chris-evans-will-throw-captain-americas-mighty-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans Will Throw CAPTAIN AMERICA&#8217;s Mighty Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ChrisEvans1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7615\" title=\"ChrisEvans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ChrisEvans1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Well that was quick.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of last weekend, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/20\/and-captain-america-may-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Chris Evans had been offered the role of Captain America for Marvel Studios&#8217; upcoming comic book adaptation, even though his both the actor&#8217;s and Marvel&#8217;s reps weren&#8217;t commenting. The new week has just barely begun and it has been officially announced that he has accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Some &#8220;i&#8221;s are still be dotted and &#8220;t&#8221;s being crossed, but Evans is set to start filming the movie with director Joe Johnston in just a few short months. The contract will also lock him in to appearing in eighth other Marvel films including 2012&#8217;s <strong>The Avengers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Competition for the role was rather stiff with the studio&#8217;s reported short list including the likes of John Krasinski, Scott Porter, Mike Vogel, Michael Cassidy, Patrick Flueger, Chace Crawford and Garret Hedlund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well that was quick. At the start of last weekend, it was reported that Chris Evans had been offered the role of Captain America for Marvel Studios&#8217; upcoming comic book adaptation, even though his both <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/22\/chris-evans-will-throw-captain-americas-mighty-shield\/\" title=\"Chris Evans Will Throw CAPTAIN AMERICA&#8217;s Mighty Shield\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[462,21,2461,31,684],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-captain-america","9":"tag-casting","10":"tag-chris-evans","11":"tag-comics-and-film","12":"tag-the-avengers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}