For a while it seemed as though every young man in Hollywood was lining up for the chance to play America’s greatest super-soldier. Now, it seems, Captain America finally has a face to go behind the mask.

Chris Evans has been officially offered the role of a lifetime according to trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter. Evans beat out a long line of contenders for the part, including G.I. Joe’s Channing Tatum, John Krasinski from The Office and Ryan Phillippe.

The First Avenger: Captain America will be the first in a trio of films about the star-spangled do-gooder. The offer to Evans is reportedly for all three films as well as other Marvel Comics projects, including an Avengers film.

Evans is already familiar to Marvel fans after starring in both Fantastic Four films as Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch. News of the casting may not please the fanboys however, as a growing movement headed by legendary comic artist Alex Ross had been calling for Mad Men’s Jon Hamm to step into the part.

The last time the Captain was brought to the screen, in an early-90s straight-to-video B-movie, the hero was played by Matt Salinger, son of late, great author J.D.