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Captain America Message Board / Captain America Message Board / Captain America Movie / Red Skull confirmed for movie!
Posted:  08 Feb 2010 06:21
ON THE VILLAIN.

Red Skull Confirmed as Captain America Villain
Source:Ryan Rotten, ShockTillYouDrop

Joe Johnston, director of the forthcoming The First Avenger: Captain America, has been doing press all day out in Los Angeles for his new movie The Wolfman and ShockTillYouDrop.com Managing Editor Ryan Rotten had a chance to talk with Johnston about the movie and what to expect.

Johnston confirmed that the Red Skull will indeed be the villain of the first movie and told Ryan a bit more about why they decided to set the majority of the movie during WWII:

"Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can't tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. If you're going to do it, let's do it. Let's do it first. Everyone wanted to tell an origin story. There was a version where it was a modern story and it didn't work."

Hopefully, we'll have more word on Johnston's plans for the movie and answers to some of the many questions that have been on your minds, including the all-important casting of Steve Rogers and what other characters may be appearing in the movie. Johnston did say that they definitely are going for an American actor, preferably an unknown, and they hope to have that person by the end of February.
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Posted:  08 Feb 2010 20:49
I wonder how they will work the Red Skull.

They have gone to great lengths to explain the Cap Costume, I wonder if they wll put as much effort into the villain.

the Nazis really were into all kinds of strange and violent imagry so they might not really need to.

You could have his name reference his method of execution of his enemies, and as they did when the Skull was in a Cap Clone Body, have him exposed to the dust at the end of the film, giving himself that awful visiage.

Lots of ways to do it, I wonder what they'll pick.
Posted:  08 Feb 2010 23:23
At least Skull's in it, they better have Cap kicking his butt.