During yesterday's Hero Complex Film Festival, amid the premiere of a new theatrical trailer for Marvel's
Captain America: The First Avenger, the screenwriters for the much-anticipated film, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely discussed the tone among other things. Comparing the film to
Raiders Of The Lost Ark, never loosing sight of "scrawny Steve", how and why the Avenger dons his patriotic threads and more, follow the image link to
Collider's audio interview below.
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.