'Captain America 2' unlikely to reach theaters before 2014, Chris Evans says

Not coming soon to a theater near you.

The good news: actor Chris Evans is signed for three Avengers films and three Captain America films.

The bad news: Don't expect to see "Cap 2" until 2014. And don't expect Steve Rogers to make any cameos in the meantime, either.

"Marvel has a lot of balls in the air," Evans told The Playlist, comicbookmovie.com reported. The actor said putting him in "Iron Man 3" or "Thor 2," for example, would count toward the contractual commitment of six total films.

"So if they needed me in a third Cap, and I say ... 'give me $30 million,' well ... they want to avoid that."


On making "The Avengers" with Scarlett Johannson (The Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) and Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner):

Oh, it's the best. It was like summer camp. You know what I mean? Like, it was fun, it was a character I knew, a character I was comfortable with. I really liked the script. Everyone in the cast ... I've done a million movies with Scarlett. I've known Hemsworth a while, he was great. And everyone is so cool: Downey and Ruffalo and everyone's so ... cool. ... If we all didn't get along, it just could have been such a disaster. But it couldn't have gone better.

Captain America - Chris Evans - talks about 'The Avengers'

Chris Evans join Scarlett Johannson, among others, in "The Avengers."

Chris Evans, for one, thinks "The Avengers" assembled the right cast of characters - both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.

Evans, who plays Captain America in the upcoming film after scoring a major hit with the title role in this summer's film, recently spoke with The Huffington Post on a range of topics. If nothing else, the actor who also played The Human Torch in the "Fantastic Four" movies sounds confident that "The Avengers" has the makings of another superhero franchise.

On bringing Cap 70 years into the future:

"He's in modern day, he has troubles. He actually gets to have things that he might have be able to shoulder, you know what I mean? He can't just put it on his back. He's a fish out of water. Everyone knows he's dead, and he's in a foreign time, and 'The Avengers,' he gets to be a little bit darker, which is nice."

Captain America - The First Avenger

What has gotten my attention of late?  Well, right now on the radar for me is Captain America, The First Avenger!!