Captain America Movie Will Not Be What You Expect, Says Director

Director Joe Johnston, fresh off The Wolfman, has been talking to Box Office.com about his much-anticipated next project, the big screen version of Captain America, promising that the majority of the film wil be set during World War II:

"It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect," he enthuses. "It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It's the origin story of Captain America. It's mostly period – there are modern, present-day bookends on it – but it's basically the story of how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. The great thing about Captain America is he's a super hero without any super powers. Which is why this story, among the hundreds of super hero stories, appealed to me the most. He can't fly, he can't see through walls, he can't do any of that stuff. He's an every man who's been given this amazing gift of transformation into the perfect specimen; the pinnacle of human perfection. How does that affect him? What does that mean for him emotionally and psychologically? He was this 98-pound weakling, he was this wimp, and he's transformed instantly into this Adonis. You'd think he got everything he wanted. Well, he didn't get everything he wanted."

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