Cape Watch: A Captain America Tease and an Epic Guardians Japanese Trailer

Marvel Studios (left, right), Marvel Entertainment (center)

While superhero fans start preparing for the new TV season, which will bring the comics shop to the small screen with the likes of Gotham and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the mammoth cinematic wheels of Hollywood continue to quietly turn in the background. This week: teases about the next Captain America movie, the greatest superhero trailers ever made, and a couple of big name actors want to get into the superhero biz. Here are the highlights of this week’s superhero movie news.

SUPER IDEA: Captain America 3 Is Going to Be Another Big Deal

Perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the promotion for the Blu-ray release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier has centered around the still-untitled third solo movie for Chris Evans’ star-spangled Avenger. According to Joe Russo, who directed Winter Soldier with his brother Anthony (both are returning for the third installment), we should expect a title announcement soon, with the title having “been in place probably for 10 years in [studio president Kevin Feige's] brain,” as he told Crave Online earlier this week. He also teased that the third movie will center around “a very, very big idea” that “alters the universe as a whole in some way.” So, you know, they’re playing it safe with the third one, then.
Why this is super: More than any other series in the Marvel franchise, the Captain America movies have been the foundation of the larger storyline across multiple movies to date: the first movie introduced the Tessaract—which is not only the MacGuffin that brought the Avengers together but also one of the Infinity Stones that Thanos is searching for—and the second destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D., stripping the backbone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe away and leaving us in a brand new place altogether. Knowing that the third movie plans to do something similar is a promising sign.

SUPER IDEA: Al Pacino Wants to Be in a Marvel Movie

Following up on his his earlier praise for Guardians of the Galaxy, Al Pacino is now saying he’d be open to appearing in a future Marvel production. “I would do anything that I could understand in terms of how I fit in it,” he told Deadline. “You know, I did Dick Tracy and I got an Oscar nomination, so come on.”
Why this is super: If it happened, it’d be a coup for Marvel—just imagine the prestige of the lead of The Godfather and Scarface starring in a Marvel movie. And, even though Pacino can chew scenery with the best of them, it’s not as if the Marvel movies couldn’t use that at times. (See also: Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.) If this ends up happening, more power to everyone involved.

SUPER IDEA: Japan’s Great Guardians of the Galaxy Trailers

Guardians is now the most successful movie of the year in America, and is repeating its success internationally—including opening in Japan this week. To promote the release, special trailers have been created that are … slightly different from those seen elsewhere in the world. You have to speak Japanese to understand parts of these trailers, but you’ll appreciate them nonetheless.
Why this is super: If you have to ask that after watching the trailers, we don’t know what to tell you. Watch again and get back to us.

SUPER IDEA: Jessica Chastain Wants to Be Your Favorite Superhero

In an interview with The Guardian, Chastain—soon to be seen in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar—confessed she “would love” to appear in a superhero movie. There’s a catch, though. “The problem is,” she explained, “if I do a superhero movie, I don’t want to be the girlfriend. I don’t want to be the daughter. I want to wear a fucking cool costume with a scar on my face, with fight scenes. That’s what I’d love.” That’s a problem?
Why this is super: Let’s see: Jessica Chastain is wonderful, and she wants to be a kick-ass superhero who doesn’t hide behind her male counterparts at all? There is no downside here, aside from the fact that there isn’t a studio taking her up on the offer. And, come on. That has to happen soon, right?

MEH IDEA: The Vision Leaks

In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it leak from, it appears, Sideshow Collectibles earlier this week, images of the Vision from next year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron have hit the web. Mostly the images just reveal that he looks very much like the classic comic book version, right down to the discordant color scheme of a bright-red face, yellow cape, and green robotic body. They were also quickly removed by fast-acting legal eagles, but the damage (such as it was) was done—a quick Google search can pull up versions that remain in less-trafficked areas of the World Wide Web.
Why this is villainy: While the nature of the internet means that such leaks are just a fact of life, it’s disappointing that the Vision reveal turned out to be so, well, expected. While the Marvel movies tend to stick closely to their comic book counterparts in terms of visuals (except for Hawkeye, sadly; Jeremy Renner should really be wearing a purple mask with a giant H on it), seeing the classic John Buscema design rendered “realistically” seemed more like something from a videogame than anything that fit with either the Marvel movie aesthetic or the comic books. Even an android can cry about his blandness, it seems.