Just Thinking About Captain America's Spider-Man: Homecoming Cameos Has Us Laughing

We haven't seen Spider-Man:Homecoming yet, but according to the folks who have, there’s going to be quite a few cameos from Captain America. These are not average cameos, either. According to CinemaBlend, these appearances take the form of instructional fitness videos.

You’re probably going, “Huh?’ Well, these videos are meant for teenage students at Midtown High. Steve Rogers intends to spread messages about staying fit with the Captain America Fitness Challenge, staying out of detention, and more. While we won’t see this videos until Thursday evening, the very prospect of a young Steve Rogers probably in his early Avengers days appearing in a PSA is just hilarious on its own.

"I think that was my idea, to have the Captain America Fitness Challenge," said Director Jon Watts. “You know, it's so collaborative. I really don't remember whose idea is what, at this point. But I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the Captain America Fitness Challenge. He would be the person teaching you about proper nutrition, and brushing your teeth."

Shooting and brainstorming for these PSA's was more fun than the creative team anticipated, especially for Chris Evans. While all the shots didn’t make it to the movies, Watts said they will probably end up on the Blu-ray release.

"When we shot those... you talk about feeling like you are filming a documentary?" Watts recalls. "That's what it was like. It was like Captain America showed up. I generated so many of these dumb things, along with one of the other writers. We just wrote -- everyone had ideas for things that Captain America could say [on screen]. So we just put them into a teleprompter, and had Evans stand there and really read through them. It's really funny, because Chris is so not like Captain America in person, but him being Cap and then just reading this stuff totally fresh, in that old costume, was so funny. It was all so very funny. ... There's a very fun improv comedy to all of that.”

Spider-Man: Homecoming arrives in theaters July 7.