The latest on Captain America
The First Avenger: Captain America is an important origins story to the film version of the Marvel universe. Not only because he’s one of the more prominent characters in the comic world, but his story is the final one that rounds out the world of connections that ties into the inevitable Avengers movie. Especially for Marvel die-hards, ever since the notion of the film universe tying itself together sounded brilliant, you can’t help but be some what weary on how they will approach one of them most heroic characters in comic book history next to Superman.
The Film Journal was able to talk to The Wolfman and Captain America director Joe Johnston to get the dish on the latest happenings on the upcoming movie.:
“We’re in prep,” Johnston says. “Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we’re set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It’s the part of the process that I love the most,” he enthuses. “We have eight or ten really talented artists, and we all just sit around all day and draw pictures and say, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we could do this?’ It’s that phase of the production where money doesn’t matter: ‘Let’s put all the greatest stuff up on the wall and [then later] see what we can afford.’” The film, he says at this early stage, will begin “in 1942, 1943″ during World War II. “The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s [comic books] we’re sort of avoiding. We’re going back to the ’40s, and then forward to what they’re doing with Captain America now.”
With the way that Marvel Enterprises and their directors have been treating their latest adapted properties with tender loving care, this is one of those that could be interesting to see form together in the months to come. Marvel currently has a couple of other properties getting themselves put together, one of them being the principal photography that’s taking place for Kenneth Branagh’s Thor and the May 7th release of the highly anticipated summer tent pole sequel of Iron Man 2.
Cap all the way!!!
And yes, he should be played by an American.
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