While they gracefully gave our first look at Marvel's much-anticipated
Captain America: The First Avenger, via images,
Entertainment Weekly dropped a few additional details to the Joe Johnston-directed WW2 adventure. And thanks to
Slash Film, you can check out those details below.
"We all know the story of Captain America – a scrawny solider named Steve Rodgers undergoes an experiment and becomes a superman. Since Evans got all bulked up for the role, in the scenes where he is scrawny, Johnston will use “clever camera angles, costume trickery and special effects that will digitally reduce Evans’ body or even put his face on a skinny actor”"
"The main plot features “Captain America as the leader of a team of elite soldiers from various countries , known in the comic books as the Howling Commandos.” And that mission will certainly deal with the Red Skull (Weaving), Hitler’s head of weaponry and the Tesseract, aka, the Cosmic Cube."
"Since Captain America: The First Avenger is the last Marvel film before Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, it has to set up that film. But it’s set several decades in the past. So, the film will begin and end with the classic frozen in ice storyline. Prologue and epilogue style."
"The classic comic book costume with the wings on the head and stuff WILL appear in the movie. Evans wears it during one scene where he’s used as a tool for propaganda. He hates it though and afterwards goes to Howard Stark of Stark Industries to help him build the new, more advanced suit that’s in most of the film."
With confirmation of Cap leading the Howling Commandos & the "classic frozen" bookends, we can only assume they'll also make up most of Samuel l. Jackson's screen time, donning the patch as Nick Fury. The only thing we don't know is if Fury would be in the 40s era. I find it hard to believe they'll include Jackson during that time, due to the fact that theres several other characters with needed dialogue. I can see them using Tommy Lee Jones' "Chester Philips" role as the story teller; maybe. What do you think?
Anyhow,
Captain America: The First Avenger hits theaters July 22, next year!