Captain America: The First Avenger post-converted 3-D". Peter Debruge of "Variety" said, ""Captain America: The First Avenger" plays like a by-the-numbers prequel for Marvel Studios' forthcoming "The Avengers" movie". Kirk Honeycutt of "The Hollywood Reporter" had mixed feelings about the film, writing, "As the last Marvel prequel that includes two Iron Man and Incredible Hulk movies before next summer's "The Avengers", this one feels perhaps a little too simplistic and routine". A sequel, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", directed by Anthony and Joseph Russo, was released on April 4, 2014. Evans, Stan, Atwell, Jones, and Jackson reprise their roles as Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Peggy
Captain America in other media serial "Captain America" has the main character District Attorney Grant Gardner, who is loosely based on the Marvel character Captain America. His nemesis is the Scarab and his love interest and sidekick is Gail Richards. The first feature-length depiction of Captain America was the 1990 film "Captain America". Development began when the film rights were purchased by The Cannon Group founders Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus in 1984, with "Death Wish" helmer Michael Winner to direct. Scripts written by James Silke ("Revenge of the Ninja", "Sahara"), Stan Hey ("Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"), Stan Lee and Lawrence Block ("The Funhouse") were rejected