The synopsis for The First Avenger: Captain America might have been released thanks to a casting announcement on featurecasting.com.
Also, thanks to the same release, it’s looking like filming is set to begin on June 28, 2010.
With a release date of July 22, 2011, and the fact that director Joe Johnston recently saying he’s busy in pre-production, the filming date sounds pretty accurate.
If you’re interested in reading the synopsis, here’s what was posted:
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Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected.
Overhearing the boy’s earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment… Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Soldier Serum and bombarded by ‘vita-rays.’
Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program.
Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued his war against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.
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If you’ve read the comics, this sounds dead on. The thing to realize is…this isn’t going to be the final synopsis for the film, but one they can send out to casting agencies without giving away the movie. Notice no mention of who Captain America fights or what happens after he becomes a super soldier. But for now…it’s something.
With Joe Johnston elaborating that he was hoping to have casting done by March 1, expect the person who will play Captain America to be revealed any day now. John Krasinski, Scott Porter, Garrett Hedlund, Jensen Ackles, Chace Crawford, Michael Cassidy, and Mike Vogel are all on the list as potential leads.
More as we get it.
Also, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada teased fans via his Twitter account that a screenplay for the The Avengers has, indeed, been written:
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Definition of "goose bumps." Pressing enter and watching a screenplay entitled "AVENGERS" come out of my printer.
It's official, I have the greatest job in the world.
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Marvel Entertainment often uses its staff to comment and aide the process of adapting a comic book property into a movie. What draft of the script, written by The Incredible Hulk screenwriter Zak Penn, though it would conceivably be early considering that Penn was writing the outline of the movie last summer and both Thor and First Avenger: Captain America — two movies with an obviously huge impact on The Avengers — are far from completion.
Still, fans that will have to wait until 2012 to see the finished product have to be salivating over Quesada's tease.