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Capote to play Captain America villain Arnim Zola!
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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Now suck iiiiiittttt!
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picture is winding up in the movie.
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C'mon stay authentic
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he has his mind stored in a machine.I don´t get it all. I would think since he is Hitlers genetic tinckerer during the war, they will have him being the one who "creates" the red scull. Scull can´t just be a guy in a mask. that would be no fun....
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http://tinyurl.com/33u35kg
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The first person I think of is Phillip Seymour Hoffman, not this guy. Guess that's better than "Dobby the house elf" though.
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my interest went from 1 to 10
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yes the creator of Doughboy is in the film. Now we can get excited....
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The fact is, Captain Americas origins are tied to World War 2, whereas almost every other Marvel hero has had their origin tweaked and updated over the years.
That means that *only* Captain Americas origins and stories from that time, are the hinky immature "funny-book" stories.
You can't make a decent movie out of such savagely poor source material. It can't be done.
Now, if they were planning to jettison the rubbish, then maybe they could have made it work. But clearly someone has decided that the first movie must take us to the twee funny book Red Skull, Zemo, Zola days of yore.
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So, was disappointed.
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Apparently our our first Avenger is going to come across some crazy shit! I'm looking forwards to seeing how RDJ's Stark is going to react when he comes face to face with the weirder aspects of this mythology.
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I too was like Phillip Seymour Hoffman is doing Cap'n America! Sweet
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And I'm not talking CGI here.
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Period stuff with crazy experimental cyborgs. It still works for me now so I'm remaining hopeful.
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acctually the newer comics have the origins of Nick Fury (with his none ageing) Wolverine(first canadian super-soldier) all tied in to the Captain America WW2 origin story. They are quite good. I can´t see the Zola character ever being what he became later (picture above) in this Cap movie, but him being a mad scientist character could work well. Im wondering now how long this movie will run. It seems they have a lot to cover.... Im guessing the relationship between Cap and Bucky(not gay relationship....ohh you guys) is the one that will be hacked. And thats not cool since the Winter Soldier is a real cool character. Zola could easily be involved with brainwashing Bucky after Cap flies off into the ice...
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he will have his head in his chest. They're going to have a hard enough time making Red Skull's look fit; Zola is probably going to be played straight. The fact that Toby Jones is in this in any role is a great thing for the movie.
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This film.... might be rather good. Curious.
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And i was thinking it was going to be some Press cameo thing where they give a journalist a part so he'll write a good review (not that AICN has ever done this before)
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Hideous experiments, glimpses of the Holocaust, savage evil high ranking military figures, etc. The worse they make the Nazis look, the more heroic and cheer inducing it's going to be when Cap first shows up. I would love to see a 20 minute opening sequence with the horrors of Nazi Germany spotlighted, the creation of the Red Skull and hideous experiments before we get into the Cap origin.But it's Joe Johnston comic book film, so my expectations are low. Hugo Weaving is good news though.
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I doubt you could find a single comic creator today that wouldn't admit to aspiring to be as good as Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Sheldon Moldoff or any other geniuses of the '40s.
It wasn't called the Golden Age of Comics for nothing.
And, for the record, Kirby created Arim Zola in the 1970s. -
an overrated, overweigth turd.....
but he owned in Patch Adams....Therefor I will see Jack Goes Boating -
Why is he taking this gig? Oh that's right... ka=CHING!
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... The Red Skull and Arnim Zola have been the primary villains in Ed Brubaker's critically acclaimed Captain America series over the last few years.
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He's not been in much lately.
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They are pretty stupid characters.
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check out Ed Brubaker's Cap run for some kickass WW2 Cap material and THEN tell me you can't make a good movie about it. Also, why has no one mentioned this guy is in this weeks Doctor Who? In the UK I mean, suck it, Yanks!
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Wolverines origin is from the 1800's isn't it?
And yes, Nick Fury is one of the only other ones who's origin is tied to WW2. But it's already clear that they're not going with classic Nick Fury in the movies. That's the ultimate universe version. -
Zola will be a regular person through most of it, then Cap blows him up real good and he becomes TV chest for the end of the film.
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wolverines origins are all over the place. I choose to not pay attetion to the movie. But the ultimate origins Nick Fury is also from WW2. I don´t know it all, but I read ultimate origins. Im just saying, they have lots to choose from.Also, the Brubaker comics mentioned above are really good. And they are totally useless if they don´t get Buck Barnes/Winter Soldier rigth. So lets hope they don´t waste him...
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Reprising his Oscar-winning role as Zola's grandfather, Emile`.
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Seriously, no one else was thinking this?
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top of the page caption- "wierdest".and wtf dont take screen time away from cap vs red skull and nazis.
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A character who has been stupidly ignored for the rest of the series and will now have to be (clumsily, I imagine) shoehorned into the final films.
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but if you make everyone believe (unpurposely?) that Phillip Seymor Hoffman is in the movie and then it turns out to be "the other Capote", it comes as a disapointment.
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or was that just a bullshit story?
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May 07, 2010 8:30:33 AM CDT
HA Awesome. i hope they bring some Sci-fi into this movie
by the_one_man_gang
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artsy, pretentious performance.
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He's so Kirby-crazy. Interesting to see how they pull it off.
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May 07, 2010 8:43:14 AM CDT
I thought of Toby Jones when I read the headline
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
And then became worried that you might have meant Hoffman. Thank christ I was right with my first thought! Hoffman would be great but I've liked all of Jones' performances so far.
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are red skull, zola, and baron von zemo! its gotta be zemos rocket that blows up cap n bucky!!
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He'll be another Louis Letterier, one movie then he's out!
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must have iconic purple mask glued to his face thanks to caps interference with one of his dastardly plans
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if namor will be in the invaders group in the film? i highly doubt it....
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"Future" Zola will be "creatively" reimagined as Robocop 2.
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May 07, 2010 8:56:43 AM CDT
Um..who else though Phillip Seymour Hoffman from that?
by eddiemurphyslaugh
Way to go AICN. It's not like PS Hoffman didnt win THE FUCKING OSCAR for playing Capote or anything. Did you just write that headline because you were too fucking lazy to IMDB Toby Jones, or did "Karl Rove to play Captain America" not seem appealing enough? Man Quint...
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ME. The mother fuckers at Aint it cool have gone too fucking far this time. First Fozzy bear is pacman and now this fucked up bullshit.
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You can thank me later Big Dog Eat Child.
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This movie is going to be fucking dumb!
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should feature obscured shots of the ice cap is in. kinda like the beginning of innerspace. only by the end of the film would we realize what we were seeing
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...is in the works (per his appearance on Larry King last Friday)
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My fingers are crossed, hoping this flick will kiCk aS mUCh aSs as Captain America's opening scene in THE ULTIMATES.
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Seriously. He was born for this part.
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(IRON MAN stares ahead, opening his face-plate to reveal Tony Stark, pausing for several seconds without blinking. He looks up and mumbles, slightly shaking his head...) Stark: "I shouldn't be operating heavy machinery."
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The rumour going around is that Tommy Lee Jones is up for the part of the Doc who creates the Super Soldier serum and ***Spoiler*** gets fuckin wasted by a nazi like, 5 seconds after.
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May 07, 2010 9:36:28 AM CDT
They should have gotten Tarentino to direct a WWII Captain Ameri
by moore12
Yes they would have been riding the coat tails of IB, and it would be unoriginal, but it would be a great movie.
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May 07, 2010 9:38:55 AM CDT
Interesting if they let the Marvel movie universe get more bizar
by rev_skarekroe
...as it goes on. So you've got the relatively real-world concepts of Iron Man, a little weirder with Hulk, weirder still with Thor, etc. etc., getting us more and more used to strange concepts until eventually we don't bat an eye when MODOK or Fin-Fang-Foom show up
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Beebop and Rock Steady, we must find the mutant ninja (dramatic inhale) turtles.
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will be a perfect opportunity to malign anyone who doesn't toe Dear Leader's collectivist line. I can see the continuation of the storyline in the Avengers now, the Tea-party movement is all orchestrated by the Hate Monger.
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He'll probably have a hand in the creation of Red Skull and start out looking like a normal human than get injured and transferred into the new body with the chest-face: which also makes him essentially immortal--so he can easily appear in later Cap. flicks.
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I've been waiting for M.O.D.O.K. to appear in one of these flicks--he would be so visually stunning I don't see how some filmmaker isn't begging to use him. I wish he had been the baddie in the latest Iron Man flick instead of a second rater like Whiplash.
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May 07, 2010 10:12:07 AM CDT
Honestly, Hitler is a big enough villain to make the Avengers as
by jackslater4
Plus, Inglourious Basterds has already gotten the public used to the idea of a fictionalized genre movie take on him so...
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The way it was, somewhat silly on paper but can be very surreal and scary if placed in a real world context. Genetically engineered and out of the Kirby toybox. That's the way to do it, but they have to go FULL Kirby!!!
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Don't worry. Nobody at AICN knows jack shit about comics.
"I'm a fan of Jack Kirby's work and I know he had a heavy hand in the early Cap books."
That's... an interesting way of putting it. -
CAP was the first comic book superhero that I read, and I was really worried about this movie. But if they put Zola in it, it means that someone over Marvel Studios knows what to do.
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V'Shael is dead wrong about this one. Zola is essential to Cap's origin, as is Red Skull. And they are key components of the recent Brubaker storylines, very cleverly done, very aware of current politics and events, and not cheesy and not outdated. This is only good news if they copy Brubaker's take.
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THAT'S TWICE IN 5 MINUTES I'VE BEEN MISLEAD BY ARTICLE TITLES!!!!!! "Capote". REALLY???!!!! THAT IS WHO YOU THINK WE ASSOCIATE WITH "CAPOTE?"
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..."Suck it Yanks"??? Suck it Brits! You've just (probably) elected youre\ very own Dubya. Thatcherism redux, mates... no more sucking the government teat, too bad for you!
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..."I'll transfer my body into a genetically engineered body. The brain will be inside the chest cavity to protect it." Like anyone with a gun isn't just going to drop a few rounds right into the central body mass. That giant TV screen with the ugly face on it makes such a great target, too. Oh well, he is a MAD scientist, so whattaya expect?
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Since Red Skull is essentially the evil reflection of Cap, then it makes sense for Skull to be a leader of evil men, much in the way that Doom is not.
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I like Stan Lee, but I don't see it being right for him to get a cameo in Captain America. I don't know if he even is getting a cameo, but considering the current trend to have him in practically every Marvel movie, I wouldn't be surprised.
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It's Zemo's rocket that ends up dooming Bucky and sinking Cap. Announce Zemo's casting already!
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Please play this character straight, Marvel/Johnston.
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whats with you guys and mis-implying things? First Fozzie then Capote? get your shit straight.
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his inspiration from the Bru/Epting run, which is faithful to those wacked-out Kirby characters (there is a scan on Zola's wiki entry), so...expect the bizarre face hologram embedded in a robot body. Anything less isn't Marvel, and bring on the Weird War II goodness!Also, the next person to whine, "what works on the page can't work in live action" is an parroting idiot with no imagination.
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...and that was exciting. Would have made me WAY more interested in this movie. Now I'm just kinda bothered by the misleading column header and still have the same lukewarm interest I had in this movie before.
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arnim zola, can totally be done straight, and then with his mind transferred to a robot body. Old school, 40s scifi looking robot. Im down.
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I also expected Hoffman based on the headline, but this guy is okay. Aside from the skill he has shown with other roles giving me hope, his weird face should make him a memorable villain.
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So long, movie Cap. We hardly knew ye
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Baron Zemo goes for twenty years with that super adhesive keeping the mask on his face. Ironman gets it on him, and in 2 seconds comes up with the brilliant plan Zemo couldn´t think of during all those years. MAKE A SUPER ANTI-ADHESIVE:)and does, within 2min. Got to love the simplicities of those first Marvel comics.....
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...we get it. You know that he also played Truman Capote . . .
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They should have put that in Human Centipede.
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Can it get any worse? OOOH, let's hire a bunch of big names! Fucker doesn't even LOOK German.
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I mean, he WAS the character I'd been picturing in my head all those years since I read the novella. Either way they go with the Zola in the movie, I'm glad to see that he's included. But shouldn't Stan Lee play Dr.Erskine? It's more or less a cameo, anyway...
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As much as you bitch and complaine that the movie will suck because of Arnim Zola's television gut, or Chris Evans playing Cap, you are all still going to stand in line to see it. Even the ass holes bitching about it. Shut the fuck up, wait and see if it'll actually suck, and then rant like a bunch of bitches watching Desperate Housewives.
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I so want this movie to be good. And you never go full Kirby. ask Sean Penn.
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Not every super hero movie has to be "grounded in reality" like Batman. Is it realistic that a guy turns into a big green monster or that whole suit of armor unfolds itself from a briefcase? Marvel is different and more fun. People who complain about this probably secretly whack it to pictures of Steven Seagal. Just sayin.
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first cousin of Avi Arad. True story.
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Namor this movie just sounds Bigger and Bigger. This Avenger project will either cement Marvel studios as a Powerhouse or cost them everything. Maybe after is over they can buy the rights back from sony and Fox.
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its time
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I dig PSH, but for my money INFAMOUS is not only a better movie, Jones is earth-shaking in the lead role. Can't wait to see him in this.
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I think he's slightly overrated (couldn't STAND Capote), but you gotta love Syndoche and fucking um um Before the Devil knows you're Dead..yes! Smothering daddy with pillow= frighteningly over-the-top depressing shit a la Magnolia----except when Aimee Mann fucked up Magnolia, and PTAs relatively mature movie turned into some emo kids high school diary
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wouldn't it be awesome if in the movie there were two people that the serum worked on..Steve Rogers and Nick Fury? Then it would be doubly awesome if nick were a bit younger than Cap and he were the original Bucky! Of course he would be the sidekick because it was the 40's and he's black. Them he could have gone on and been the baddass leader of the Howling Commandos after Cap was lost trying to stop the rocket. Then it would be so hilarious if in modern times Cap kept slipping and calling Samuel L. Jackson Bucky. That's a great way to insert some comedy into it without overtly doing so.
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I gave up hope. His origin story will probably be something like:
"Young hotshot Stevie Rogers and his bunk buddy 'Bucky" have seen some shit. After one of Saddam's occult-enchanced anthrax bombs goes of in Stevie's face during the first Gulf War, he goes into a state of suspended animation (a la Austin Powers) for nearly 20 years! He wakes up to a very different world. Bucky is now an old man, well into his late 30's. Wildly different tastes and cultural mores have taken over, a black man in the White House, swearing on TV, not to mention such modern technological marvels as the "cell phone", and something called "the internet". Thanking his lucky stars that America won not only that gulf war, but another more recent Battle of Civilizations as well, avenging an attack on America's soil but the ultra-powerful evil mastermind Saddam, Stevie gets back to the business of chasing tail, cracking wise, and finishing college. If not for the Gulf War Syndrome serum that gave him his powers, young Stevie Rogers might be able to live a normal life, and not the dual life as the icon of American pride and freedom itself, Captain America."
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