[Movies] Captain America To Be Cast Soon

Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.04.2010

Filming begins in June…

- Joe Johnson, the director of the upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America recently spoke about about the film, here are the highlights…

On Casting Captain America: "We need to cast it soon," Johnston said. "We have a very short list, but we're still juggling actors here. I'd say within the next couple of weeks we'll have ourselves a Captain America, I hope."

On The Story: "It's the kind of thing where, while I'm not necessarily a comic-book fan, I think the interesting thing about this guy is that he's a superhero without any superpowers, basically. He is the epitome of human perfection. He can't fly and throw tanks around and see through walls and things like that, but he's strong and runs fast."

On Captain America Himself: "And the interesting thing about this guy is that he starts out as a 98-pound weakling and he becomes this Adonis. How does that affect his arc in the story? How does that affect where he goes and what happens to him and everything? I think that's the part of the story that was fascinating for me. And, of course, being a Marvel movie, there's fantastic action scenes in it and all kinds of great stuff. But there's an interesting story there as well."

- Shooting for the film begins in late June, and has a scheduled release date of July 22nd, 2011.