G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra star Channing Tatum is really into playing the lead role in First Avenger: Captain America and the follow-up The Avengers. Tatum told MTV:
I would love to play Captain America. I actually really, really would love it. I love Captain America. I'm not a big aficionado on him. But I know who we was, and I like him as a character.
Whether Tatum is up for the role is not known, but it's notable that he still believes the long-overturned rumor that Will Smith is playing the role:
I'd absolutely be next in line [after Smith], as long as people wouldn't hate that I'd do G.I. Joe and Captain America and be like "Okay, you need to do something different than a soldier." I don't want to be that guy that everybody's like "We've seen you do that sort of thing."
With few names mentioned for the Captain America role at this point (Matthew McConaughey is a potential "maybe" for the part), Tatum could very well be a contender, much like his character in Fighting. Or, wait, is that too much of the same thing?