Some relatively old bits of news here about the new Marvel Captain America movie 'The First Avenger' that you may or may not have heard.
1) Director Joe Johnston confirmed during an interview with CHUD that the 'Invaders' will definitely appear in its WWII portion. If you don't have a clue who the Invaders are let me tell you that they include such characters as Caps sidekick Bucky, Prince Namor: The Submariner, The original android Human Torch, Toro, Union Jack, Miss America, Whizzer, Blazing Skull and Silver Scorpion. Johnston has said that the team will be 6 people strong so if you say that Cap and Bucky are definite shoe ins then we're all hoping that Namor and Torch will at least be included in the other 4 members. Can you imagine that? What a prelude to the Avengers movie; The Invaders taking on the Third Reich on film!
2) The Red Skull is definitely the main villain in the movie. Well I'd say that was a given, wouldn't you? I mean it's like doing a Superman origin movie and not having Lex Luthor in it. Johnston confirmed the Red Skull's inclusion during an interview that was published by Shocktilyoudrop.com and Comingsoon.net.
3) The majority of the film will definitely be set in WWII. OK so we all knew this already and it wouldn't have been much of a movie if Cap's origin didn't have WWII as its background but Johnston confirmed this as well saying : "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."
4) Captain America's costume may be explained in the movie as a USO performance outfit? News on the Internet recently stated that the movie will have Steve Rogers creation made so priceless to the US military that they will sideline him so that they don't send him into battle and get him killed. Steve then goes into the USO, performing for the troops in his classic Captain America garb and when the time finally comes in the film for him to enter the battle he'll use his costume to rally the patriotic US troops and put the fear of God into the oncoming Nazi hordes. Whether this works on screen or not is something we'll have to wait to see but Johnston says that it's the only viable way they could get the costume into the movie when everything is supposed to be real life in these new Marvel movies...
5) Will Captain Awesome become Captain America? Chuck's very own Captain Awesome (aka Devon Woodcomb, aka Ryan McPartlin) has read for the part of Cap recently, among many others, and is considered as one of the many 'unknowns' that Johnston wants for the main role. Other rumours on the Internet say that Star Trek's Chris Pine is a front runner for the role, but I wouldn't have said he's as 'unknown' as Ryan and has a number of future Trek sequels to look forward to, which could well ruin the Marvel filming schedule should he actually get the part. I'm voting for Captain Awesome at this time!
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