Originally Posted by
Panic
As a Captain Britain fan from the early days, I have more fear than optimism. The Claremont-written Excalibur is largely despised by Captain Britain fans as it turns CB into exactly what he wasn't supposed to be: a caricature of an American's view of an English alpha-male - overprivileged, arrogant, and uptight, needing the more enlightened American heroes to show him how to be a decent human being. Ugh. Claremont absorbed the characters created or developed by Moore/Davis, but threw our hero under the bus. These days you'd call it cultural appropriation.
Given the way that the US writers have avoided writing Brian as the empowering wish-fulfilment fantasy he was originally supposed to be (and the whole point of giving a certain demographic a hero of their own is to give that demographic a positive, empowering hero that is theirs), I think either we will see a very negative version of Brian along the lines of Claremont's Excalibur, or, if they want a positive Captain Britain, they'll make Betsy CB, and she'll inherit all the lore and rogues' gallery/supporting characters that were developed for Brian.
Feige has been asked about a Captain Britain movie in the past, and he has seemed uncomfortable giving answers; I suspect we're getting a female Captain Britain (probably Betsy), and as a token attempt to appease the British male demographic, the Black Knight will have his nationality changed from American to British, perhaps even making him Brian Braddock. Which will upset Dane's fans, won't make the few Brian Braddock Captain Britain fans left happy, and probably adversely affect things in the comic-book universe through the dreaded "synergy" effect. Very unsatisfactory, imo.
I'd like to be wrong; it would be nice to have a positive male British hero in the MCU, and I'd like it to be Captain Britain as he's one of my favourites. I really quite enjoy the Davis-written Excalibur (though CB still has traces of Claremont's macho jerk version, and Meggan is still the too-dim-and-fluffy Claremont version), that might well make a good film that would please fans of all the characters. I really don't want to see all the characters created for Brian to be appropriated to prop up another hero, though - Saturnyne, Jaspers, the Fury... if you're going to make Betsy CB, don't use Brian's stuff, use her own enemies and stories. I mean, if your reason for making he CB is because you think she's had better stories, that should be a no-brainer.
Things have really sucked for Brian's fans in comics for decades, with CB&MI:13 being the only bright-spot, please don't take away his glory years to give to someone else on the big-screen - that would be crappy.