Captian Progress Is Back

While we wait for director Joe Johnston to officially cast the lead in his comic book adaptation of The First Avenger: Captain America--Moviehole says that actor Ryan McPartlin auditioned while Big Shiny Robot says Chad Michael Murray is also a possible candidate for the lead...





McPartlin (top photo) "...I read for it, so we’ll wait and see what happens."

What we now know is that our hero will be taking on the villain Red Skull in the film says Johnson while talking with HitFix.



"We will see the..villain, the main villain, the Red Skull. But it’s the origin story. It’s how he became Captain America in World War II. There are present-day bookends, but it’s really… it’s his origin story. And we decided you only get one shot at telling an origin story, so you might as well tell it first.”

Red Skull was first introduced in 1941, as an industrialist who was born in a village in Germany, where his mother died in childbirth. After trying to murder the child, but stopped by the attending doctor, the grief-stricken father commits suicide and then the child is orphaned, growing up on the streets as a beggar and thief.

Falling in love with a girl who rejects him and he later murders, He begins his psychotic journey by becoming a bellhop in a hotel where Adolf Hitler who while scolding an incompetent officer, swears he could create a better officer out of any ordinary dolt and thus creates Red Skull.

As for the hero suit:

"The costume is a flag," said Johnston."But the way we're getting around that is we have 'Steve Rogers' forced into the USO circuit. After he's made into this super-soldier, they decide they can't send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He's the only one and they can't make more. So they say, 'You're going to be in this USO show' and they give him a flag suit. He can't wait to get out of it.It was never in the comics because they didn't really need it..."

Filming will kick off in June for a July 22 2011 release.