Captain America: The First Avenger First Avenger" tells the story of Steve Rogers, a sickly man from Brooklyn who is transformed into super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull, who intends to use an artifact called the "Tesseract" as an energy-source for world domination. "Captain America: The First Avenger" began as a concept in 1997 and was scheduled for distribution by Artisan Entertainment. However, a lawsuit, not settled until September 2003, disrupted the project. In 2005, Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch, and planned to finance and release it through Paramount Pictures. Directors Jon Favreau and Louis Leterrier were interested in
Captain America: The Captain the Commission, which voted to suspend Walker from his role as Captain America pending an official investigation. A crisis erupts in an Arctic research station where Flag Smasher is holding hostages and insists that he speak with Captain America. The Commission sends Walker to handle the situation, but he is overcome and kidnapped by Flag Smasher leading to Rogers rescuing Walker and learning that the Red Skull might have returned. When Rogers tries to return Walker his shield, he is forced to fight Walker who was goaded into fighting him by a returning Red Skull in a cloned body of