RED SKULL confirmed, CAPTAIN AMERICA's suit, more casting info
This past weekend supplied us fans with more Captain America movie news. ShockTillYouDrop.com and The L.A. Times have both interviewed Joe Johnston and obtained some info about "The First Avenger: Captain America" Here's a quick rundown of what Johnston had to say about the film. (Spoiler Alert, read at your own risk)
Ryan Rotten of ShockTillYouDrop.com interviewed Joe Johnston about his "Wolfman" movie and managed to get a little info on Captain America. In the interview Johnston confirmed that "Red Skull" will be the main villain of the movie and also revealed some story details.
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"Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can't tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. If you're going to do it, let's do it. Let's do it first. Everyone wanted to tell an origin story. There was a version where it was a modern story and it didn't work."
The L.A. Times spoke with Joe Johnston and he revealed information about the Captain America Suit and the casting of Steve Rogers/Captain America.
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"The costume is a flag, but the way we're getting around that is we have Steve Rogers forced into the USO circuit. After he's made into this super-soldier, they decide they can't send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He's the only one and they can't make more. So they say, 'You're going to be in this USO show' and they give him a flag suit. He can't wait to get out of it.
So he's up on stage doing songs and dances with chorus girls and he can't wait to get out and really fight. When he does go AWOL, he covers up the suit but then, after a few things happen, he realizes that this uniform allows him to lead. By then, he's become a star in the public mind and a symbol. The guys get behind him because he embodies something special."
There will be more than one costume in the film, too.
In the first USO sequences, the frustrated patriot will be wearing a version that is closer to the classic Jack Kirby-designed costume, but then later as the super-soldier hits the war zone he will be wearing a sturdier, more muted version that he makes himself that is more like battle togs. The stripes across his mid-section, for instance, will be straps, not colored fabric.
He realizes the value of the uniform symbols but he modifies his suit and adds some armor, it will be closer to the Cpa costume in some of the comics in more recent years . . . this approach, it's the only way we could justify ever seeing him on a screen in tights, with the funny boots and everything. The government essentially puts him up there as a living comic-book character and he rips it off and then reclaims some of its imagery after he recognizes the value of it. We think it's the best way to keep the costume and explain it at the same time."
when asked about the casting of "Steve Rogers/Captain America" the director had this to say:
"Well, we're testing five or six guys, the youngest is 23, the oldest is 32. Most of the guys in the war are just kids, 18 or 19, but we want to go a little bit older. We have to have somebody locked in before I leave March 1st for London. A challenge is finding an actor that can play scenes as "98-pound-weakling" Steve Rogers and also pull off the brawny hero scenes, although some visual effects wizardry will come into play."
Sources: ShockTillYouDrop.com & L.A. Times
