Good Casting: I was Right.

Almost two years ago, I posted this article: Good Casting. Where I argued that Jon Hamm needed to be cast as Captain America, I won't re-tread all of the reasons that are presented. Besides this new argument:

Jon Hamm, Hockey Fan

But after getting some traction, it seems there's some steam gathering. I found an article on Collider (via PuckDaddy Greg Wyshinski's twitter feed) that notes one of the writers of Captain America suggesting the ideal candidate would be Jon Hamm. He uses some of the same arguments too! When I suddenly tried to start a facebook fan page (so I can try and get some credit here) I saw there was one.


"Captain America is supposed to be the patriarch of the Marvel universe. To get a guy in hisearly to mid-20s is only thinking about where the character began, not what he ultimately needs to become.” - Alex Ross

Now I'm not going to take direct credit for starting this whole thing, but just in case the studios come to their senses and decide to cast the ever bad-ass Jon Hamm as Cap: