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You just mentioned Batroc, and we've seen Arnim Zola in the "Captain America" trailer. You're taking some nice dives into Cap's supporting cast, it seems like...
McFEELY: Absolutely. There are some other ones that will go unnamed that didn't make the final shooting script, too.
MARKUS: It's painful because Cap had all of these great villains in World War II. Obviously, the guy no one's talking about because we're not using him in the film is Zemo. He's huge in the WWII story, but you eventually get to a point where there are too many elephants in the room.
McFEELY: You don't want too many villains. I think other movies have fallen short when there are too many villains. Particularly for the first one, you don't want to mess up the recipe — and the recipe is: the better your one main villain is, the better your hero is.
Plus, you probably want to save some of them for future films, right?
MARKUS: That's the one thing about this Marvel universe: it's so deep and been woven and rewoven so many times. The Howling Commandos, they're in the movie, and then you have this knowledge about who the characters become. Whether or not anything comes of it, you can say, "That's Union Jack right there," or, "That's Dum-Dum Dugan."
You brought up the Howling Commandos, and given Nicky Fury's connection with that team, a lot of people are wondering whether the Marvel movie version of Nick Fury can actually have a connection to the Howling Commandos now, given the timelines...
McFEELY: Yeah, we're going to have to kick that to Kevin Feige. [Laughs]
Okay, here's one I think you can answer: Will M.O.D.O.K. fans be pleasantly surprised by any cameos in the film? After all, he's intimately connected with HYDRA...
McFEELY: [Laughs] Let's hold him for the future...
Starring Chris Evans as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky, Hugo Weaving as Red Skull, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips, Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine and Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark,
Captain America: The First Avenger will be released in 3D on July 22.
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