Captain america. The first avenger
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With Iron Man and The Hulk out of the Way, Iron Man 2 coming in a few months and Thor currently shooting, the last Marvel movie before the big Avengers flick is Captain America and all of the questions surrounding it, like, who is going to play Captain America?
During today's press conference for The Wolf Man, Joe Johnston spoke about Captain America, where he's at as far as pre-production, and how the casting process is coming along:
How is pre-production going on your next film (Captain America) and are you planning on casting an American?
Johnston: Casting an American? Oh yeah. Absolutely. I don't think we could make the film without an American playing the part. We may not be casting in America because we're going to London. we'll probably shoot in the UK for most of it because it takes place in Europe but ya we'll definitely be casting (an American).
Johnston also mentions that Captain America will be shot in HD. Not shot in 3D, because now studios can do that in post, but no answer if Cap would be in 3D or not.
With Captain America do you see opportunities to have a different style to it, like Sam Raimi did with Spider-Man?
Johnston: We're definitely gonna shoot it in a different way than any of the other marvel pictures that have been shot. And what I'm trying to do is look at the comics. Most of the new ones. Most of the Brubaker series and to interpret that sort of visual style into a film in a way that I think has been tried before but it's never, it always looks like it's a little too on the nose, it looks like, "Oh, they're shooting a comic book movie." and I wanna try something a little bit different.
Have you nailed down what some of the big set pieces might be yet?
Johnston: Yes. We have. Right now it's , we have to sort of pick our battles because it's a little more than we can afford right now. But there's some great action sequences.
When you have an iconic character like that, is it more about finding the right person or are Marvel and others saying, "We need a big star."
Johnston: No. we're looking for a complete unknown.
So this is not going to be a big movie star taking this part.
Johnston: I hope not. I hope it'll be somebody that we discover and has never been, has probably been in something, but you won't know who he is. You won't recognize him. And we';ll surround him with more prominent names. That's who we're looking for. Will we find him? I don't know. It's tough.
Do you know when the goal is to have the casting done?
Johnston: March 1st.
And as an added bonus he also confirmed that the villain will be Red Skull.
So what are peoples thoughts?