Re: Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
Bad *** Digest:
At one point your mom would have dropped you in a river for the chance to **** Robert Redford. She still might, because he looks weirdly good for an old dude who appears to have been smoked like jerky. And her lust for him might just be rekindled in cinemas soon, as Redford is in talks to join Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
You heard me right. Robert Redford is in talks to appear in a Marvel movie. The guy who founded Sundance, the guy whose last decades worth of films have been indie and pretty under the radar, is going to storm back into mainstream movies in a SUPERHERO FILM. You know, he would have made a pretty cool Captain America back in his heyday. Just saying.
According to Deadline Redford will be playing SHIELD upper management, which I'm assuming means he's part of the shadowy cabal seen in The Avengers. The site also indicates that Redford is signing one of those standard Marvel contracts, so expect him to pop up again in The Avengers 2 - which will now be the opening night film of Sundance 2015, maybe*.
This is weird, and it feels like a complete acceptance of the new Marvel Hegemony. But it also is cool, and I think Redford could be a lot of fun. It would be kind of neat if we discovered he's Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, gotten all old, and that Nick Fury is simply a code name. Like we used to think James Bond was!
* no, not really, I am joking. They will not be finished by then. I just wanted to make sure nobody got their Editor hat on in the comments and was like 'Uhm, actually the movie wouldn't be finished by January 2015.'
