Awhile ago, we brought you an pretty unsubstantiated rumor that Marvel was looking at Matthew McConaughey for the part of Captain America. Now that we’re talking about Captain America, a more informed rumor has come out from Latino Review.

Also inside: Hints are dropped that The Abomination might come back and Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige talks Captain America!

From Latino Review:

Well, speaking of CAPTAIN AMERICA, I have myself a trusted source internally over at Marvel and they are now starting to toss names for the role of Steve Rogers.

The name at the top of the list? Leonardo DiCaprio.

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You know else is also on the list in case they don’t get DiCaprio? Brad Pitt.

Marvel wants to be in the Brad Pitt business. They are willing to cast him either as THOR or CAPTAIN AMERICA. Now Brad Pitt as Captain America would be bad ass but as it stands right now…

…Marvel wants Leonardo DiCaprio as Captain America!

We’d heard Brad Pitt’s name tossed around for Thor previously, but the Leonardo Dicaprio rumor is all new. As a matter of fact, these are all-new all-rumors as no offer has been made to either star named above. Nor will there be, until scripts are nailed down (the Thor script is nearing completion, probably within the month).

From AICN’s interview with Tim Roth and Louis Louis Leterrier:

Louis Leterrier: I’ve got good news for you. In Red Hulk, Abomination is in Red Hulk and he can turn in and out of Abomination mode…

Tim Roth: That’s what you guys were talking about for the next… (looks at me)… thing… possibly… you don’t know anything about this!

Louis Leterrier: Which is nice, because (Tim) was very afraid that he wouldn’t be able to come back.

Tim Roth: I keep getting asked now, because people are seeing it, “Are you going to come back?” and I just say “It’s not up to me. I had to sign a three picture deal.” Basically, “If you like it, I’m coming back. If you don’t like it, I ain’t coming back.”

Is it too early to be talking Incredible Hulk 2? Sort of. It’s, like, 2 days too early…

And finally, on Captain America from and Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige:

Quint: I really love the fact that you are committing Captain America to appear in a period film.

Kevin Feige: I sort of let the cat out of the bag on that one by accident.
Quint: Yeah, a little bit, but I think if you were going to, that’s the best thing you could say, because one, it automatically gives the film a different identity than all of the other super hero movies and it’s just perfect for the character and you get to play with Nazis and you get to have that kind of villain.

Kevin Feige: I don’t want to talk too much about it, because it’s so far off and we are just putting everything together over the summer, but you look at the four films that we had announced and they are four very different movies and that’s why I’m excited about them. None of them can be pigeonholed into any particular category, but you’ve got the sequel to IRON MAN, which we all what that is now, you’ve got a fantasy epic with THOR, you’ve got a period adventure with Cap… then you’ve got the biggest crossover that has ever been and I don’t even know what to call it, but I like how different they all are. That’s one of the reasons we are going in that way and CAP is not going to be an authentic… no one is going to mistake it for a WWII movie, let’s put it that way, but it very much will be as close to that as we have ever done which is really cool.

That means that it will be a comic-book WWII movie, not that Captain America isn’t going to fight in WWII, right? Because if Steve Rogers doesn’t kick some Nazi ass, we’re going to be seriously pissed.