Hugo Weaving In Talks To Play Red Skull In CAPTAIN AMERICA

Marvel may still be looking for its Steve Rogers, the choices were clear, and now the studio would just have to pick one lucky actor soon enough but when it comes to the villain, Red Skull, according to Heat Vision, one man is closer to landing the role. Hugo Weaving, a familiar name to geeks and fanboys everywhere, thanks to The Matrix and LOTR…

If the deal’s locked in, this will reunite Weaving with The Wolfman director Joe Johnston.
The casting process is probably intense because, as you know, THE INVADERS will also make an appearance in the second half of the movie.

According to Wiki, The Red Skull a.k.a Johann Schmidt was a “former Nazi general officer and confidant of Adolf Hitler, he has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers, and the interests of the United States and the free world in general. He was physically augmented by having his mind placed into the body of a clone of Captain America, the pinnacle of human perfection. He has been seemingly killed in the past, only to return time and time again to plague the world with schemes of world domination and genocide.”
Actor Scott Paulin played Red Skull in a 1990 low budget Captain America movie.

Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy’s earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment… Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by “vita-rays.” Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued his war against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.

Filming begins June 28, 2010 and the movie opens July 22, 2011.