Oct 7, 2008 by The MovieWeb Team

Official Synopsis for Captain America Revealed!

Marvel has released an official synopsis for the story of The First Avenger: Captain America. The synopsis appeared in the latest issue of Production Weekly – which suggests that the synopsis is legitimate. That said, it still reads a bit like a stock Marvel description of the character, so it’s possible that the details of the film won’t exactly follow what the synopsis says.

Read the synopsis for yourself and decide what you think!
Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy’s earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment… Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the ‘Super-Soldier Serum’ and bombarded by ‘vita-rays.’ Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and and battle savvy, Captain America has continued his war against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and leader of the Avengers.

Whether this is exactly the synopsis or not, it’s still nice to know that it seems to be Marvel’s plan to keep the character true to his comic book roots. It’s always possible that someone would have had the terrible idea of “updating” the character so that Captain America was created to fight in the War on Terrorism.

We’ll find out more about The First Avenger: Captain America when it hits theatres on May 6, 2011.

Captain America: The First Avenger was released July 22nd, 2011 and stars Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci. The film is directed by Joe Johnston.


Sources: Production Weekly

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Comments (65)

  1. The CryptKeeper

    gay

    4 years agoby @catwomanFlag

  2. The First Avenger: JohnnyBlaze

    they dont show the movie because it was horrible! the 70's movie had him wearing a motorcycle helmet with a plasic shield an the sequel had him fighting dogs....an the newest movie had hom in costume all but 15 minutes an fighting an italian red scull. Wha?????

    4 years agoby @johnnyblazetb82Flag

  3. bendor_heman

    Yeah, I do love cheap things, and war...but I don't like captain America, he's not patriotic enough for me.

    Ever notice how they never rerun the old Captain America Movie?

    Hmmm. I wonder if they are gonna put Wolverine in there. Didn't they fight in WWII together. Prolly not. That's too optimistic I think

    4 years agoby @bendor-hemanFlag

  4. glorious_dead

    captain america.. more like, how to make low level morons love your country and make war mongers out of poor people so the rich stay rich while the poor keep dying.. nothing special about the cap.. another great propaganda piece to make the average joe into a killing machine. While the general public views him as a hero.. In the eyes of United states you are always the heros, never the villains.. lets chant... USA.... USA..... USA!!!!!!! I love the USA. CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP..

    4 years agoby @glorious-deadFlag

  5. DarthDarko

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz what, huh, did you say something? Captain America? What? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    4 years agoby @darthdarkoFlag

  6. Diaigma

    If you are at all familiar with ANY Marvel comic knowledge whatsoever, MovieCritique, you would know that there is NOTHING R rated about Capt America. Sorry to disappoint.

    4 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  7. The First Avenger: JohnnyBlaze

    ummm to the guy underneath me, i think your thinking of different marvel movie like blade or the punisher or even howard the duck. hahahahahaha

    4 years agoby @johnnyblazetb82Flag

  8. MovieCritique00

    I wonder how much blood and gore there would be, since its during WWII. Like Saving Private Ryan, you saw a lot of Blood & Gore, and soilders entrails. Also during WWII, the Holocaust happen, and there were alot of dead women and children, alot of blood. There was also the conentration camp, alot of deaths, probably alot of blood.
    The movie going to revolve around alot blood and gore. Maybe there'ed be enough blood and gore to be R-rated.

    4 years agoby @moviecritique00Flag

  9. T.Clark

    The guy below me clearly doesn't have any thought capacity of his own cuz ALL 3 of the people he suggested have been known rumors

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  10. itchy18

    brad pitt as capt. america? would it be cool? or leonardo de caprio as capt? or maybe Matthew McConaughey as capt. america. they say brad pitt could be Thor.

    4 years agoby @itchy18Flag

  11. Radimus-83

    your right Diaigma, that was a very clean sarcastic comment. not like me at all.

    anyways....

    Rudy,.. you're a C*NT!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  12. T.Clark

    Again, rudy...ur a f*cking idiot

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  13. The Narrator: The Better Man

    lol. Well Rudy you keep showing how smart you are. I went to the site knowing they would be fake, and I see you posted them. What the hell?

    4 years agoby @narratorFlag

  14. Psycho

    Lol Rad.

    4 years agoby @physco-123Flag

  15. Diaigma

    An incredibly clean rebuttal, rad. I'm proud of you :)

    4 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  16. Radimus-83

    yes, but no, yes..... actually he's not. but he actually is in a way. but then again he's not!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  17. MCPeterman

    i think i heard something about will smith playing captain america is this true?

    4 years agoby @mcpetermanFlag

  18. The Kwisatz Haderach

    sounds like an exert from wiki

    4 years agoby @the-kwisatz-haderachFlag

  19. Mmm_mmm

    i got hit by vita-rays once

    bbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaad deal

    4 years agoby @mmm-mmmFlag

  20. Shadow Of The Day

    Nice.

    4 years agoby @asifFlag

  21. Brian

    Hey Rudy. They're fake. Duh.

    4 years agoby @brianFlag

  22. Rudy

    Yay!! Too bad movieweb hasnt posted the new teaser posters yet, they're already on the web!!
    You can download them here for free, yes they're real!!
    http://packinheat2u.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20First%20Avenger%3A%20Captain%20America

    4 years agoby @rudyFlag

  23. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Yes PLEASE!!!
    Hallelujah.

    4 years agoby @narratorFlag

  24. Diaigma

    Yea!

    4 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  25. Soylent Green:The Devil's Eyes

    Oh sh*t thats f*cking awesome. It should be a WWII flick. Like Cap walking through ruined streets in Europe with regular soldiers fighting the Nazis. Like Saving Private Ryan or something like that. That'd be the sh*t. A dark tone as well.

    But it's hard to say who will play him.....

    4 years agoby @jcisawesomeFlag

  26. The Dark Knight

    F*CK OFF I'M DONE WITH IT HERE!!!!!!!!

    4 years agoby @thedarkknight23Flag

  27. Chad Vital

    I think it'd be cool at the beginning of the film he grew up in the Great Depression, was a young weak man and got "juiced" and then fought Nazis as Captain America during the 40s at a good aged man, then be frozen afterward since the war was over, only to be unthawed to fight evil in present day, They could easily rip off Demolition Man by accident but oh well DM is awesome lol.

    4 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag

  28. Psycho

    Lol comrade.

    4 years agoby @physco-123Flag

  29. The Dark Knight

    cool

    4 years agoby @thedarkknight23Flag

  30. -comrade-

    I love how movieweb comes out with the headline "OFFICIAL Synopsis!" and then says, "but it's possibly unofficial."

    4 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

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