Back in 2010, before casting began on Friday's release of
Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios' head honcho Kevin Feige revealed that "The Invaders" would surely play a major role in the much-anticipated film. While fans assumed he was referring to the superhero team from the comics with that same name, near the casting process, however, it was realized it was just the "movie name" given to the elite special unit "Howling Commandos." While they're now evidently being referred to as their comic-accurate name, director Joe Johnston recently chatted with the
Orlando Sentinel explaining exactly how.
“Originally, we called the Howling Commandos ‘The Invaders,’”" Johnston says. “It wasn’t until my son Henry, who is in high school, came over to spend the summer with me while I was making this, and the Marvel team gave him a video camera and let him go behind the scenes to make a documentary about the making of the movie. And in the credits of his little documentary he credits them as ‘The Howling Commandos.’ He put it on the screen, as a graphic – ‘Howling Commandos.’ And Kevin Feige sees that and goes, ‘You know, that sounds pretty good. Let’s call’em what they are, The Howling Commandos. Why the hell not?’”
Captain America: The First Avenger focuses on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull. Starring Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Stanley Tucci and Hugo Weaving, the film releases July 22, 2011.