Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I don't know a ton about Captain America, to be honest. I followed his stuff through The Avengers more than his own books when I was growing up and I haven't really dug into the back issues in my adulthood. I need to work on that because I know I'd love the WW2 stuff.
Plus I'm a fan of Jack Kirby's work and I know he had a heavy hand in the early Cap books.
In fact, Kirby created the character they just cast up for the feature film version. You'll know Toby Jones from his work in INFAMOUS as Truman Capote, his turn as Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's W or as Olly, the likable clerk from Frank Darabont's THE MIST. He's a great actor and has a great look. According to THR's Heat Vision Blog he'll be playing Arnim Zola, a genetic engineer. But will he have has head in his gut like he was drawn:
If so, then they're going fucking crazy with this movie! But Zola's involvement could play into a bit more of a sci-fi element than I was expecting as he created monsters and clones for the Third Reich.
Doing a little bit of research I also see that he transferred Hitler's brain into a clone that became a super-villain decades after the war called The Hate-Monger. I doubt we'll be seeing that in the movie, but if the character's there you never know! Only if Millennium Films were making these movies.
Thoughts?
-Quint
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