Captain America’s deadliest foe has been confirmed, with Hugo Weaving taking on the terrifying crimson visage of the Red Skull!
Marvel has confirmed the news on their web site, as Weaving will join Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell. The Skull was one of the Nazis’ most terrifying symbols in the Marvel Universe, and in the comics recently masterminded the apparent assassination of Steve Rogers.
This won’t be the first time that Weaving has worked on genre-friendly entertainment, however — in addition to making his name as Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, he was in the Lord of the Rings films as well as playing the title role for V for Vendetta. Captain America is due out on July 22, 2011.
May 4th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
nah nah nah nah nah nahhh…one of the top 10 anti-climatic moments of 2010.
May 4th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I’m a big fan of this move. Weaving makes everything better.
May 4th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Good actor and all, but rather predictable and lazy casting. Then again, I don’t expect much in the way of characterization for the Skull.
May 6th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Ok, so they cast a very good actor for a very important part in a very important Marvel movie and you are complaining that it is “predictable and lazy casting”???
When it is unpredicatble casting (Ledger, Evans) people get up in arms. When they cast someone people thought it could potentially be, it is ‘predictable and anti-climatic’.
Sheesh. There is no pleasing some folks.
Anyway, I say this is a great move. If Mr. Weaving has the material, he will make a great Red Skull. So far, Captain America is looking good.
June 28th, 2011 at 2:05 am
i thought at first this is Nick Cave….