It was later announced by Kevin Feige shortly after that Steven Spielberg would be directing the film, and announced a summer 2011 release date. Ultimately, Marvel Studios decided a period film would be more nuanced for a Superhero movie and they felt splitting the time between the 40s and today would be too similar to the failed film before it. But Avi Arad strongly opposed the idea, believing that Captain America was a man out of time, and a product of the World War II era culture, and the film should reflect that. Originally Kevin Feige said that half the film would take place in the 1940s and the other in modern times, in order to better establish his role for The Avengers. At first, many ideas were thrown around for how to manage a Captain America Solo movie, not wanting to relive the financial and critical disaster of the original 1990s Serbian-cult film. With the MCU's wide success in other properties, it was announced during the 2009 Comic Con that a Captain America reboot was in development, which would take place in the shared continuity.

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