Channing Tatum and Keira Knightley Approached for 'Captain America' Roles

Fans will have to wait just a little bit longer after all.

Despite promises last month from director Joe Johnston that the casting of Captain America would be completed by March 1, the film is no closer to having a star, and there’s no encouraging signs of it happening anytime soon. Two new actors have been added to the growing list of possible, according to MTV.Com.

Joining the list of possible actors for the title role in The First Avenger: Captain America is Channing Tatum, whose steady climb to fame was helped by last summer’s G.I. Joe, and more recently Dear John, the movie that managed to knock Avatar from the number one spot at the box office after a seven-week reign earlier this year.

He joins actors Chris Evans, Garrett Hedlund, Wilson Bethel and Mike Vogel as contenders for the role.

Tatum has alluded in the past to a desire to play the role of Steve Rogers on the big screen.

“I would love to play Captain America,” he told MTV News. “I actually really, really would love it. I love Captain America. I’m not a big aficionado on him, but I know who he was, and I like him as a character.”

A final decision has also not been made on who would play the as yet untitled female lead. In addition to actresses Alice Eve and Emily Blunt, Keira Knightley has recently been entered into the running. Rumors say the actress cast will play either Betsy Ross (who was an early love interest of Captain America’s and became Golden Girl later on in the comic book series), or Peggy Carter, a French resistance fighter who fell in love with the Captain during World War II.