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Massive THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA Movie Update from Director Joe Johnston – Casting an American, Wants an Unknown, Shooting in HD, Has to Cast by March 1!

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Just an hour ago I took part in a press conference with director Joe Johnston for his upcoming movie The Wolfman.  While I’ll have a full transcript of the entire interview posted very soon, I was able to get some great updates on The First Avenger: Captain America.

Here’s some of the highlights.

– He’s definitely casting an American to play Captain America

– Needs to have casting done by March 1.  Says they are testing 5 or 6 guys ranging from 23 to 32.

– He’s shooting Captain America in HD and says if they do 3D it’ll be in post

– Says he’s going to shoot Captain America in a different way than any of the other Marvel pictures have been shot

– They’re going to shoot most of it in the UK because the movie takes place in Europe

–  Regarding casting a movie star to play Captain America…Johnston says he wants to discover an unknown and surround him with more prominent names

– The Invaders are in the movie and they’re a big part of the second half of the film.  Also The Invaders will be six members strong. (via Chud)

– And while he didn’t tell us anything about the villain of the film, AICN is reporting Johnston told someone at the junket that Red Skull is going to be the villain.  More on Red Skull here.

– Steve Rogers (Captain America) will wear two costumes in the film.  The first is close to the Jack Kirby designed costume and later in the film he’ll wear a sturdier, more muted version. (via Hero Complex)

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