New 'Captain America' Trailer Wins the Internet

Have you seen the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger? Well, yeah, you probably have. No self-respecting nerd could have possibly avoided it this week, and since all card-carrying Wortmaniacs worth their longboxes are prone to trailer dissection, I’m convinced you’ve all seen it more than once.

Since I don’t believe anyone could possibly have too much of a good thing, here’s the trailer once again. Initially, I was worried about Steve Rogers’ transition to the screen, but based on this footage, director Joe Johnston seems to have the right idea.

Captain America: The First Avenger—starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Tommy Lee Jones—hits theaters on July 22.

Marvel EIC Says Captain America “Will Have Everyone on Their Feet Cheering”

Now that Chris Evans has been cast as Steve Rogers/Captain America, we can all finally start getting excited about The First Avenger: Captain America in a very real way. That excitement, it seems, is quite palpable in the Marvel offices. In a series of tweets earlier today, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada described the third day of a “super secret” trip to Los Angeles, during which he walked through the Captain America art department, saw the Captain America costume and met director Joe Johnston for the first time.

Quesada also seemed pretty stoked about a series of story meetings about “secret stuff.” Vague? Absolutely, but at least he admitted that he was giving his frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy followers absolutely nothing of substance. That didn’t stop us from geeking out and speculating.

“I suck, I know,” he wrote. “But think about how hard it is on my end to keep from bursting and telling you all the amazing stuff I’m seeing.”

He continued, “I soooo want to tell you about this thing that happens in the Cap movie that will have everyone on their feet cheering, but I can’t.”

Oh Quesada, you tease.

Hugo Weaving in Talks to Play Red Skull in The First Avenger: Captain America

I’m pretty much avoiding any and all casting rumors swirling around Marvel Studios’ upcoming Captain America film—which is apparently titled The First Avenger: Captain America—but I’m having a hard time ignoring news that Hugo Weaving is in talks to play Cap’s Nazi arch-nemesis Red Skull. The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog broke the story on March 11.

Weaving has already earned his geek stripes several times over, playing Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and even V in V for Vendetta. Heck, regardless of how you feel about Michael Bay’s Transformers films, you’ve gotta admit that Weaving rocked as the voice of Megatron. But, frankly, he rocks in pretty much everything.

The Nigeria-born Australian actor recently worked with Captain America director Joe Johnston on The Wolfman, so this news makes a whole lot of sense. But keep in mind that the deal has yet to be finalized. Expect an official casting announcement—which will hopefully reveal who will be playing Cap himself—in the very near future.