With The First Avenger: Captain America scheduled to be coming out in 2011, Marvel is already tossing around the names of some actors they would like to see as Steve Rogers. You may be shocked to find out who.

Coming hot of the presses from LatinoReview.com, Marvel has been talking about looking to cast either Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt as Captain America. Of course these are just preliminary musings since the movie is very far off, but this no doubt shows the kind of person they are looking for.

By now Marvel has come to the realization that putting big name celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr. and Ed Norton in leading roles in their movies equals box office gold. Hell, even the supporting characters in both Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk were huge. Jeff Bridges, Gwnyeth Paltrow, and Liv Tyler aren’t bottom barrel actors in the least. That and the movies are just of a superior quality since they are in house productions.

Not only are DiCaprio and Pitt big stars but they are also similar in their acting styles. Both are flexible in that they can be rough around the edges types such as Billy Castigan in The Departed or Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, or the suave cool talking types such as Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can or Rusty Ryan in the Ocean’s Series.

Despite their acting similarities, however, I think that Pitt would be a much better choice than DiCaprio. DiCaprio is too scrawny to play a super soldier serum injected Cap. I could see Pitt playing a much more believable Steve Rogers than DiCaprio.

According to the story on LatinoReview.com, Marvel may also be looking at Pitt to play Thor in the 2010 movie of the same name. That one I’m not so sure about. I’m trying to imagine what Achilles from Troy would like like if he was 1000 times more bad ass and carried Mjolnir… maybe it would work… maybe.