'Captain America' Writers Unsure of Time Period for Sequel
Fri, April 15, 2011 
Well this is news I just don't understand.
In an interview with MTV, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the duo who wrote Captain America: The First Avenger and have been commissioned to write its sequel) explain they're undecided of what time period CA 2 will take place in. Why you ask? The Avengers.
MTV: And you're writing the "Captain America" sequel now, too?
McFEELY: Yes!
MTV: I know it's early in the process, but do you have a timeline in mind for the sequel? Will it be more World War II adventures or, since it will come out after "Avengers," will it be a modern-era Captain America?
MARKUS: We're very early, still. This is the fun part — when we can say, "Hey, we can do this!" and everyone says, "Yeah!" No one says anything negative at this point in the process. We have a million great ideas and haven't thrown any of them out yet. That being said, it's sort of a weirdly huge opportunity for storytelling in that you know modern Cap through the Avengers at that point, and just by the nature of what we were talking about before, there's going to be a lot of his World War II history we haven't shown. We're going to have two entire timelines to play with.
McFEELY: I wonder if the reaction to ["The First Avenger"] will steer us in some way. First, if it does well... Then, if it does well and people embrace the World War II aspect of it, maybe there's pressure to return there in a large way. But if they don't embrace that aspect and just love Chris Evans as Steve, maybe there's less pressure to do that — you can just keep him in the Avengers universe.
Here's the head scratcher though. Everyone and their mother knows Captain America: The First Avenger begins in the present day with a team (S.H.I.E.L.D. I think) going to recover Steve Rogers body in the Arctic and ends with them finding him. I assume somewhere towards the end of the film, it will be explained why and how Chris Evans character is frozen in the first place. Doesn't that automatically make it impossible to have a sequel in anywhere but the present day, considering you're telling the audience he gets frozen then is found in our time? Unless somewhere in between, he gets unfrozen, has another Captain America adventure, then is frozen again. See what I'm saying?
Anyway, I think a sequel taking place in modern day, post-Avengers, would be pretty dam cool. Seeing Steve Rogers adapt to our modern world puts a whole new spin on a type of sequel we've never seen before. We'll find out what the game plan is eventually.
Reader Comments (3)
I would think is pretty clear where to be. The present day time. Since we know he ends up frozen from the 40s to modern time in the first film.
I really shouldn't have to point this out, but since we haven't seen the cap movie we don't know if there's a jump in time between, say, Steve becoming Cap and the adventure that leaves him frozen in ice. So it's certainly possible that they didn't tie up his entire WWII career in one film...
I agree one hundred percent with Sean Gates. Why couldn't a sequel show other adventures of WW2-era Cap not shown in the first film?
Even if the sequel is set in the present, it would be cool to at least see some flashbacks.