Jon Favreau - “They still have to make a few more movies, because Avengers has the Hulk in it and Thor and Captain America and Iron Man. So I think they want to, according to Kevin Feige over there, they want to get a chapter in each of the heroes before they start playing with the idea of combining them. But I think it’s very smart that they’re thinking of cross-pollinating between different characters like they have always done in the comic books.” - TheDish, 2/3/08 [link] 
"We're very excited about our summer releases and look forward to resuming work with writers on our future projects including 'Captain America,' 'Thor,' 'Ant-Man,' and 'The Avengers,'" said Marvel Studios Chairman David Maisel. - SuperHeroHype, 1/24/08 [link]
"We'll have to play with Captain America as being a patriotic propaganda machine on one hand but also being a very human Steve Rogers, ... [an] interesting, fascinating hero in his own right," Feige told reporters on the set of Iron Man, which is in production in Playa Vista, Calif. Is the script they're developing a period piece? "Right now what we're developing would be about half and half," Feige said. Feige said that Captain America will aim for a PG-13 rating, like Iron Man. The comic studio has brought on writer David Self (Road to Perdition) to draft a screenplay. A director will be announced soon, Feige said. Production is expected to begin in a year." - SciFi.com, 6/14/07 [link]
In 2005 Variety reported on the formation of Marvel Entertainment, a business entity dedicated to producing film adaptations of Marvel Comics properties. Marvel Entertainment released a list of Marvel properties being developed for production by the company to be released through a partnership with Paramount Pictures. The list includes Captain America. Other properties specifically named in the press announcement are the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak and Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi. Budgets for each film are expected to be between $45 million and $180 million. The first picture under the arrangement is slated for release by 2008.
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