Iron Man: May 2, 2008

[TheGreatRaja]

The Hoff!

*runs

[Helius]

Originally Posted by Dr-Timelord

The question now is who would step up to the challenge of pulling off the role of Captain America?

Well for some reason Neal McDonough springs to mind. If he buffs up a bit he could make a pretty good Capt.

[lennier1]

Originally Posted by chrono

The base character was popular before Jackson got out of grade school. The writer and artist must be GAR for him or something.

To a company there´s no such thing as too many sales. And if you take the character´s existing popularity and pack the actor´s popularity on top of that it sure won´t decrease the possible revenue.
Not exactly comparable but look at Mace Windu in Star Wars. While in this case the character itself was as unimportant as it gets, Jackson´s face turned it into an additional advantage for the marketing campaigns and a noteable story element.
In case of Nick Fury you simply have an already popular character and boost it with the actor´s popularity even further.

Personally I couldn´t care less since I prefer the classic Nick Fury (Darkness probably prefers the one from the 90´s movie ).
But then again I also prefer the 90´s X-Men costumes as well and would´ve preferred them to simply darken them as much as possible and turn them into layered protective gear (like leather gear for bikers merged with bullet-proof vests).