Just came across a link noting that Marvel’s working on a Captain America movie with a script by David Self (who also did the screenplay for a more self-contained comic adaptation, Road to Perdition). Marvel Comics’ President of Production Kevin Feige is quoted as saying:

“The good news is Marvel is perceived pretty well around the world right now and I think putting another uber Marvel hero into the worldwide box office will be a good thing.”

Uh, and the bad news is that America’s not perceived quite as well worldwide, and we’re talking about a dude literally wrapped in the damn flag. (Side note: if Captain America gets caught on fire in the line of duty, does anyone involved take flak for flag burning?) Feige continues:

“The script that David Self is writing, the director that we end up hiring, and certainly we’re going into it with our eyes open and these are all things that we have to deal with much the same way that Captain America when thawed from the Arctic Ice entered a world he didn’t recognize and had to deal with changes… whether it was when Stan did it in the early 60s and that world that Steve Rogers was coming into or the world of 2009.”

Come on. The dude is dressed in a freaking flag, funny-looking boots, funny little wing-ear thingies, and so on. There is no way this will not look totally stupid—unless they stick it in the ’40s and let us watch him punch Hitler and battle Nazi tigers. That could be cool.