Captain America Movie: Red Skull Cast
Marvel Studios announced today that Hugo Weaving has been cast to star as Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull in the studio’s highly anticipated movie Captain America: The First Avenger opposite Chris Evans (Captain America) and Hayley Atwell (the love interest). In the early comics, Johann Schmidt was drafted into loyal service of The Third Reich and renamed The Red Skull. Apparently the character will be updated for the feature adaptation (I hope no too much). Joe Johnston will direct the film penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.
Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige will produce. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel and Louis D’Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released on 22nd July 2011and distributed by our trust worthy friends over at Paramount Pictures.
Captain America: The First Avenger will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.
Weaving was last seen in The Wolfman, recognised widely as the voice of Megatron from Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well as Noah the Elder from Happy Feet. His other film credits include starring in V For Vendetta, The Matrix franchise and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So to sum up; I think Schmidt is going to be a good decision.
In addition to Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the top quality Marvel characters including Thor on May 6, 2011, and Marvel Studios’ The Avengers on May 4, 2012.
Stay tuned to Push-Start for updates, so until next time true believers… Excelsior!