Director of Marvel Studios’ The First Avenger: Captain America, Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, October Sky) recently sat down for an interview with Film Journal to talk about The Wolfman. Luckily, they managed to squeeze in some details on the status of the Star-Spangled Hero!
Johnston said,
“We’re in prep, Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we’re set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It’s the part of the process that I love the most, We have eight or ten really talented artists, and we all just sit around all day and draw pictures and say, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we could do this?’ It’s that phase of the production where money doesn’t matter: ‘Let’s put all the greatest stuff up on the wall and [then later] see what we can afford.’” The film, he says at this early stage, will begin “in 1942, 1943″ during World War II. “The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s [comic books] we’re sort of avoiding. We’re going back to the ’40s, and then forward to what they’re doing with Captain America now.”
Filming on The First Avenger: Captain America is expected to being in June and it has been reported that casting is indeed underway. Up-and-coming actor Anderson Davis recently told the geek files that he was hoping to audition for the role, actor and model Rick Malambri said he had already auditioned for the part, and Chuck actor Ryan McPartlin (Devon ‘Captain Awesome’ Woodcomb) says he’d like to wield the shield although he seemed to indicate that he hadn’t screen-tested or been officially approached.
Comic Book Movie reported that Wade Harlan had auditioned and also that American actor Johnny Pacar tweeted with this message on January 18:
“Just read for Captain America. What a role to get. If only.”
Kellan Lutz (Twilight), Sam Worthington (Avatar) and Zachary Levi (Chuck) and Robert Buckley (One Tree Hill) have all said they are interested in playing the hero as well.
The First Avenger: Captain America is scheduled to hit theaters on July 22, 2011. The character will then appear in The Avengers team-up movie in 2012.
