Before
Captain America: The First Avenger was released, many were left wondering whether or not Nick Fury would appear during the WWII based scenes as he has in both the 616 and Ultimate comic book universes. When Samuel L. Jackson was confirmed as starring in the movie, most of automatically assumed that this meant he would be, until we eventually found out that it was only in a current day epilogue that he would appear, Well, in an interview with
The HD Room, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have now revealed exactly why they decided to keep Nick Fury (and his dad) away from
Captain America's WWII action.
A buddy of mine and I were talking about the Howling Commandos last night, and he reminded me that in the current Marvel continuity, Nick Fury's father, Jack, was a Commando. Was there a point where you guys entertained the notion of including that?
SM- For one thing, I'm not even sure Sam Jackson's father could've been in World War II. But our thing was that we wanted Cap to be the leader of the unit, and you add a Fury in there and all of a sudden you risk taking away the major focus being on Cap.
CM- Plus, we were already using Howard Stark, so there were already threads to connect to The Avengers movie and the other Marvel movies there. Plus, the general trend with these kinds of movies has been that jamming too many characters or too many villains, etc., tends to make them a little bloated. We wanted to keep it as simple as possible.
What do you guys think of their reasoning? Does it make sense, or are you still disappointed that we never got to see Nick Fury and Cap fighting side-by-side on the battlefields of WWII? Would that have even made sense in a somewhat realistic cinematic universe?! Be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place!
Captain America: The First Avenger is out on DVD and Blu-ray on October 25th in the US, and available in the UK on December 5th.
STARRING:
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Ramanoff/Black Widow
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
RELEASE DATE: May 4th, 2012. (US)
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