I’ve already stated how happy I am that Joe Johnston is heading up the CAPTAIN AMERICA movie, especially since he’s already had experience doing a comic book period film with a superhero fighting Nazis (THE ROCKETEER).  Well in a recent interview promoting THE WOLFMAN with BoxOffice.com (a great interview by the way) he dropped a few details on what we can expect from the upcoming film.

“It’s not going to be a Captain America that you expect. 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 superhero 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 everyman 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. The rules change at that point and his life gets even more complicated and dire. For me, that’s the interesting part of the story. It’s got some great action sequences in it and some incredible stuff that we’ve never seen before. But at the heart of it, it’s a story about this kid, who all he wants to do is fit in. This thing happens and he still doesn’t fit in. And he has to prove himself a hero—essentially go AWOL to save a friend. Eventually at the very end, I don’t want to give away too much, but he does fit in. But it’s the journey of getting him there that’s interesting. And it’s a lot of fun.”

Kind of sounds a little like a Peter Parker-ish scenario.  Being a huge Cap fan, I definitely want this film done right, but as long as we get plenty of Steve Rogers kicking Nazi butt, I’ll be happy.  Johnston hasn’t let me down yet, I’ve enjoyed just about everything he’s done.  If anyone can handle a big screen adaptation of a character like Captain America, it’s him.  In the interview, Johnston also gets into some details about JURASSIC PARK IV, which sounds like it’s moving forward.  He stated:

“Well, there is going to be a Jurassic Park IV. And it’s going to be unlike anything you’ve seen. It breaks away from the first three—it’s essentially the beginning of the second Jurassic Park trilogy. It’s going to be done in a completely different way. That’s pretty much all I can tell you.”

Johnston goes on to say that the fourth film will in actuality be more like a beginning of a new trilogy, and this could very well lead to six JURASSIC PARK films in total.  Will we see Sam Neill?  Jeff Goldblum?  Laura Dern?  The Hammond kids all grown up?  Time will tell.  I’m just glad to finally see the days of solid big-budget superhero movies getting made on a regular basis, and I’m always willing to watch a bunch of dinosaurs wreaking havoc on celluloid.

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