Captain America Nabs Director — Johnston
Joe Johnston first met with Marvel Studio two years ago and now they are working together on First Avenger: Captain America.
Johnston is not new to designing films. He first started out in visual effects. His work can be seen in Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
As a director he’s posting for The Wolfman right now. Other credits include Hidalgo, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and October Sky.
The story of Captain America was created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for Timely Comics. He is an alter ego of Steve Rogers, who is rejected by the Army for being too sickly and undergoes an experiment that takes him to the pinnacle of human form. Paired with an indestructible shield, he became a symbol of the war effort, in and out of comics according to Hollywood Reporter.
Captain America is set to take place during World War II. However, he will also appear in the modern day-set Avengers. We just have to speculate that superheroes never grow old.
I take it from the end of your post that you’re not familiar with Cap’n America lore.
At the end of a mission gone wrong Captain America was frozen into suspended animation, and was later discovered by the Avengers in a block of ice.
This is why he has appeared to not age, and the Hulk DVD extras suggest that the movies will maintain some sort of coninuity wherein Captain America has been frozen since the end of WWII.
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