Chace Crawford? John Krasinski? Nope. Meet Your New Captain America

Chris Evans, aka Fantastic Four's Human Torch, to don comic book superhero's red, white and blue outfit

By Natalie Finn Mar 22, 2010 10:07 PMTags
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The Human Torch has cooly accepted the title of Captain America.

Fantastic Four hunk Chris Evans has signed on to play the red-white-and-blue-defending superhero in Marvel Studios' upcoming First Avenger: Captain America, E! News has confirmed.

The 27-year-old actor was just offered the job last week—and negotiations went quite smoothly, per the Hollywood Reporter.

Evans joined a pool of possible leading men that, at one time or another, included John Krasinski, Chace Crawford, Ryan Phillippe and, most recently, Channing Tatum.

Joe Johnston has been in place to direct for some time, and now cameras can start rolling in England with an eye on a summer 2011 release.

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