How the MCU Was Made: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ & Why Chris Evans Turned It Down

While Marvel Studios clearly had ideas about heading towards The Avengers when they set about making their own films starting with Iron Man, it wasn’t until their fifth film—Captain America: The First Avenger—that they were making a movie while The Avengers was rocking and rolling and getting geared up to start production. Not only that, but the 1940s-set Captain America would serve as the audience’s lead-in to the experimental The Avengers, and thus needed to tee up major plot points while also introducing a major new superhero. And while the end result works wonderfully, …

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