Director Joe Johnston previously said that his take on THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA will be influenced by the comic book, an origin story that’s mostly period but with modern, present-day bookends it focuses on the emotional and psychological effect the transformation has on Steve Rogers who starts out as a kid who can’t fit in and then he becomes Captain America. He talked to Filmjournal and gave some more updates on the development of the project itself…
He said the story will begin “in 1942, 1943″ during WWII.
“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 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.”
THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA opens July 22nd, 2011
