The Coventry Telegraph (by way Comic Book Movie) has got a location scoop - - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER will be shooting some key period scenes in Manchester and South Wales. Parts of the former will be made out to look like 1940’s New York City, while the latter’s open fields will be used for two weeks worth of war scenes. That second bit raises a question I’ve had about this movie - - how extensively will WW2 battles factor into it? See, the last CAP movie (the direct-to-video one with the rubber ears and the Italian Red Skull) only showed WWII in the first act and, even then, Cap was really more of a spy/saboteur (albeit the most conspicuous spy/saboteur in history.) He was never actually shown fighting in battles.

There’ve been plenty of images of Cap storming beaches, parachuting into enemy territory and even leaping over trenches. The iconography’s intrinsic to the character. However, symbolic images like that can work when drawn, but filming them with real actors and real sets brings up more than a few issues. I remember the first X-MEN movie getting a lot of commentary about opening scenes from the Holocaust and whether that was appropriate for a summer blockbuster. Will audiences be able to suspend their disbelief when watching a gaudily-dressed superhero soldiering his way through the battlefields of a very real war? == TEASER ==

Then again, this could easily just be scenes showing the Howling Commandos in action, or cut-aways for a quick montage of Cap’s field operations, while the rest of the conflict and action would center on his fights against the Red Skull. This is why I’m the most intrigued to see the CAP movie out of all the ones on Marvel’s docket - - it could potentially be doing a lot of things we’ve never seen before in a superhero movie, including extensive war scenes.

What do you Comic Vine maniacs think? Would you want to see this sort of stuff at the forefront of the CAP movie? Or do you want it to relegated to a small portion? How much do you figure is appropriate?

-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Studios and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. HYBRID BASTARDS! is available  here and UNIMAGINABLE is available here for pre-order on Amazon.com.  

Sweet I love the idea of them using the UK to shoot war scenes for Cap because didn't parts of WWII take place there

Yay!!

I don't have a problem with WW2 just not too much.

Ironic...
Can Captain Britain make an appearance then?

" Ironic... Can Captain Britain make an appearance then? "

Not too surprising actually

Captain America is synonymous with World War 2.   I especially think that since they are doing Modern Day book ends and making this a “Period” Piece, then to have WW2 as a Backdrop, but never show Captain America fighting in it would be ridiculous.   It will also take away from the character too.   I’m not sure how many of you read Tales of Suspense, but Steve Rogers; after being unfrozen was haunted by his past life.   Not so much the war and violence, but the people he lost, Bucky and Peggy Carter.   I think seeing Captain America giving the pep talks to the boys prior to their boots hitting the sand would be good to show.   I personally want to see Cap storm the Beaches of Normandy.      

" I was watching Band of Brothers Yesterday and was about how The battle scenes could be like that. "

"Sweet I love the idea of them using the UK to shoot war scenes for Cap because didn't parts of WWII take place there "

" @sora_thekey:  I don't understand how that is ironic... World War 2 definitely took place on European, Japanese, and African soil. With the exception of Pearl Harbor, there wasn't much going on in America aside from manufacturing and troop-supporting.  "

they should do a big war scene and a scene where captain america must sneak into a nazi-camp. Offcourse he must fight Red skull as wel

" @mjanosko said:

" @sora_thekey:  I don't understand how that is ironic... World War 2 definitely took place on European, Japanese, and African soil. With the exception of Pearl Harbor, there wasn't much going on in America aside from manufacturing and troop-supporting.  "

Except the Japanese actually invaded Alaska. "

out of all the movies that marvel is planning, this is the one that I'm most excited about.

South Wales is used to for just about every issue of Doctor Who... why not Captain America too? :)

lol i was actually expecting it to be shot in canada for the most part

I think most (if not all) of the film should take place during WWII, because it is necessary for character development prior to the Avengers movie. 
 
As to being filmed in England, I thought American soldiers were in England prior to Pearl Harbor, just in an unofficial capacity. I could be wrong though...

Is Hitler going to be in this movie? I wanna see Cap uppercut him with the shield. lol

Take the opening scene of D-Day from Saving Private Ryan and throw Captain America into it... there.. now you have an EPIC movie.

I'd like to know where exactly in Manchester and South Wales, as I'd like to see if I can get a sneak peek at the filming :)

They should do at least one scene with Cap fighting against the enemy troops.
 
(Although I say they should do at least one, that's probably all that they will end up doing).

......im not quite sure what the point of this article is 
 
of cores we want to see cap fighting in the war

I was a little surprised that some or even a lot of the Captain America movie will be filmed in the UK though I understand the economics of this. 
 
Still as an Australian science fiction writer (who also writes a lot of Marvel fan fic) I once wrote a fan fic "Spitfires over Stalingrad" which had Captain America and Captain Britain helping the Russians out.

You should be able to find it somewhere in this lot:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1276881/David_Scholes 
 
Or check out some of my sci-fi: 

www.StrategicBookPublishing.com/ScienceFictionandAlternateHistory.html

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Reading-Science-Fiction-Scholes/dp/1449581889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261366245&sr=1-1

http://www.sffworld.com/community/story/3932p0.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_xoUYXwaw

I have just completed a new novella “Soldier of the Brell” which I will make available as an e-book download from the Xlibris site. I will also make it available on the IPAD, Amazon’s Kindle, the Sony Reader and other E-readers.  

Cheers   

Cool, the more news I hear about this the better it sounds! It would be so awesome if they made a mention of Wolverine, seeing as Cap fought along side him in WWII... a cameo would be even better though!