Joe Johnston Talks Captain America

The Los Angeles Times recently spoke to director Joe Johnston about his interpretation of Captain America hitting theatres next summer. According to Johnston what they're doing is new twist on the Steve Rogers fans have come to know.

"We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers," said Joe Johnston, "He's a guy that wants to serve his country but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting sort of what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was."

"He wants to serve his country, but he's not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver," Johnston added. "He's just a good person. We make a point of that in the script: Don't change who you are once you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier, you have to stay who you are inside, that's really what's important more than your strength and everything. It'll be interesting and fun to put a different spin on the character and one that the fans are really going to appreciate."

This is one of those things that will either be huge or backfire in their faces from fanboy backlash. Granted the fanboy community only make up a small portion of the general movie going public, but the word of mouth they pass on to their non-fanboy friends could really hurt Caps total box-office. Hopefully Johnston does the character justice, and delivers something the fanboys can come to love.