When “Iron Man” took over the world box office in the summer of 2008, he did it with the daring promise not only of the consequences, but the creation of a whole universe on the big screen that would culminate in the comics of Mash-Up of superheroes dreamed since they were children. Could this university of Marvel Cinemate Newfangled hang enough basic moviegoers to achieve this high goal?

All this would depend on many games that break in favor of the company. Marvel had to team up with regular hand directors with colored writers inside the lines, who would hope that hell that the stars that they would launch to play these heroes could transform them into a billion dollars franchise pillars.

The most published casting competition at the time was focused on the search for the perfect and fresh star promising to take the shield of Steve Rogers, alias Captain America. I covered this process at the time for a new cool, and, for a while, it seemed that it was the role of John Krasinski to lose. It was inside until the day when the studio offered the game to Chris Evans – and it is fun to note that fans were not all that the old human torch obtained a second bite to the Marvel apple. They thought that Evans did not have the gravity to play a young recruit from the Second World War who turned into a supersoldier. Instead, they wanted relatively long lams in the teeth of Mark Valley or Nathan Fillion.

Marvel was still going to launch a young actor to play in Rogers, and one of the finalists was a star start to the classic NBC / DIRECTV Series “Friday Night Lights” (-) And, no, it was not Taylor Kitsch.

During a recent appearance on “Look at what’s going on live,” Scott Porter, who has become the celebrity of television as a quadriplegic Jason Street on “Friday Night Lights”, was asked about the loss of the role of Captain America. He replied with frankness that 15 years ago, it was a “kick in the nuts”.

The other finalists of the role, apart from Krasinski, understood Mike Vogel and Wilson Bethel (which is now the Bullseye of MCU), and all these actors went far enough on the road so that they do screen tests in the ceiling costume. It was very real at this stage and, to wear, it made a bitter pill swallow. “It was, like, a big one … I am leaning, sobbing, lifting. Yeah, it was bad. Because all these press points had put my head on Captain America’s body, and I started to buy,” he explained. “I said to myself:” I can do that. “Oh, no.

Porter finally found another great success in the dramatic of Netflix “Ginny & Georgia”, whose third season comes from his first on June 5. On his credit, he evolved and is a big fan of what Evans did with the role that could have been his. “Who else can be Captain America than Chris Evans?” He said. “I was not crazy at all, and I watched all the films” Avengers “. I am a huge bare, and the man just crushed him.”