Captain America Screenwriters Reveal Joss Whedon's Script Changes And More!

Talking to Cinema Blend, Captain America: The First Avenger screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have revealed a few new details about the future of Steve Rogers, as well as finally letting slip exactly what The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon did when he contributed to the script. Below are just a few brief excepts from the interview, so be sure to head on over to the site by clicking on the link below to read more.

Christopher Markus: Well basically he just did a read through and continuity pass, just to make sure that his Steve was gonna match up with our Steve so that there wouldn’t be this, all of a sudden he’s a wise cracking joker in 2012. It was really just more of the kind of making sure that the whole universe meshes together.

Stephen McFeely: You know, it’s weird because there is already a sequel in a way. We’re already in the process, and as we were out writing and coming up with ideas, it was really hard until we read The Avengers. Because we would scale down these great scenes, unless Joss Whedon already did it, and I don’t know yet. So once we read The Avengers we went alright, here’s where we can take a path that he hasn’t explored yet.

Christopher Markus: But already in the first one, that’s always kind of the, not so much in how you shoot the first one, but the knowledge that all these friends he’s making, this is a guy who never had a place, finally finding a place, and you know that it can be taken away from him again. In the sequel he’s sort of back where he was when he was a scrawny kid with no home, the one home he had found was seventy years ago. So that is kind of a fun thing to have in the back of your head. And also the fact that there’s so many great villains and storylines that you can’t cram into one, so you sort of keep a side pile. “We don’t have room for it now, but there’s no way I’m not putting it in later.”

Stephen McFeely: Everything is on the table at the moment. It’s very likely that it’s modern day and what we’re talking about is trying to figure out a way to weave in a logical, necessary flashback. Which is what the comics do a lot, things from the past come back.

Christopher Markus: In some ways, I logically understand that question, but when I’m reading the comic book, I never ask that question. I never go, well why doesn’t he just call Thor. It’s also a matter of making the action personal. It’s gotta be personal for Steve Rogers and his development.