Scratch one name off the CAPTAIN AMERICA casting list we posted a while back. Leave four actors and probably who-knows-how-many others on it. Michael Cassidy, known as Julian Luthor and SMALLVILLE and for almost playing Kal El in McG's almost- Superman movie, has confirmed he’s out of the running on his Twitter account.
So Tweets Mr. Cassidy…
@ typertist No Captain America for me.
Not too much ambiguity in that statement. It just improves the chances of some dashing unknown riding in like a dark horse candidate and landing the role.
The scoop comes from Slashfilm, who also has some tidbits about THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA that I was hitherto unaware.
* Big surprise, but the Red Skull has been confirmed as the villain? I suppose we ought to pour some speculative grain into the rumor mill and get it grinding. Who should play Johann Schmidt? Christoph Woltz of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS? Udo Kier of BLADE? WER?!?!
* The movie won’t be 3D like Green Lantern. No, ma'am! It’ll be traditional 2D, but un-traditional HD. 2DHD. Sounds like R2D2’s cousin. Director Joe Johnston says he wants to make visual style different and emulate the style of recent comics in a way that’s never been tried before. I’m hoping that’s not like the split-screen panels in Ang Lee’s HULK. They were fun to see there, but it’s best to leave that trick to one movie, lest its magic dissipate. I don’t know if the other Marvel films have been shot in HD, but I’d be tickled if they tried to shoot this in the frenetic HD style of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE. Now, THAT’S never been tried in a superhero movie before.
* Whoever signs on for Steve Rogers role is going to be on for a possible NINE-PICTURE deal! Wow... Marvel has plans within plans.
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia Comics. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.
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