Marvel’s next tent pole movies, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, have started to pick up the pace of releasing information to all fans. With Comic-Con activities serving as means to deliver this type of information, we’ve been getting new bits and pieces to these films almost every day now. Here we get director Joe Johnston talking a little bit more about his Captain America version.
Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston told the Los Angeles Times the screen version of the hero will be true to his roots up to a certain point.
“We’re sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers,” said Joe Johnston, “He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re reinterpretating sort of what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.”
“He wants to serve his country, but he’s not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver,” Johnston added. “He’s just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don’t change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier, you have to stay who you are inside, that’s really what’s important more than your strength and everything. It’ll be interesting and fun to put a different spin on the character and one that the fans are really going to appreciate.”
I totally understand that when adapting a literary piece (book, comics, short story, biography etc.) to a film, you need to make changes. Why? Because it’s impossible to fit everything into a 2 hour film. Sometimes you also need to make changes regarding the origin of the characters, the setting of the story, the action pieces etc. Why? Well, because most often they don’t translate well into a film. I totally understand this. So I don’t mind when Johnston goes on to hint that his Steve Rogers will be a bit different. Of course this is going to happen, any director who takes on a movie now days, wants to add some of his style and vision. I got no problem with this. Stuff will vary (shield, costume, some of the backstory). I hope that hardcore fans won’t go nuts when they see this little changes. They need to be done, so that the characters and story are relevant to our modern times.
What do you guys think? Hardcore fans what do you think?
