Actor Sebastian Stan ("Hot Tub Time Machine") has now been cast to play the 'sidekick' of 'Captain America', in director Joe Johnston's upcoming feature "Captain America", based on the Marvel Comics superhero, created in the 1940's by Joe Simon and Jack "King" Kirby. The new film starts shooting June 2010, set for a summer 2011 release.
The original 'James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes' debuted in "Captain America Comics" #1 (March 1941), published by Marvel's 1940's predecessor Timely Comics.
In 2005, the original Bucky was brought back from supposed death as the 'Winter Soldier', becoming 'Captain America' in 2008, after the death of 'Steve Rogers'.
Following his debut, Bucky Barnes appeared alongside Captain America in virtually every story in Captain America Comics and other Timely Comics series, also appearing in Timely/Marvel's first superhero group, the "All-Winners Squad". After Bucky was shot and seriously wounded in a 1948 Captain America story, he was succeeded by Captain America's girlfriend 'Betsy Ross', who became the super heroine 'Golden Girl'.
