Fan Casting Boomerang in George Nolfi's Captain America

Fred Meyers was born in Australia but moved with his parents, at least one of whom was an American citizen, to the States as a young kid. As a youth he soon discovered a passion for baseball and growing up developed an incredible pitching arm. He attended college on baseball scholarships and was recruited into a minor league team affiliated with the New York Mets. After a year, however, he was suspended for accepting bribes. Upset, he was soon recruited by the unscrupulous industrialist Justin Hammer and given the identity of Boomerang along with related paraphernalia, which included a number of boomerangs designed by Hammer's R&D department. In this guise, he originally fought Iron Man but was defeated; he was released on bail soon after. Realizing that he was unused to throwing his now signature weapon, he retreated to the Australian Outback for a month of intense self-training. As Boomerang, he has fought Captain America, Iron Man, Iron Fist, Spider-Man, and Daredevil, and occasionally hired by Georges Batroc as a member of Batroc's Brigade. He was last seen escaping from the Ryker's Island prison facility during the jailbreak led by the Rhino.