9/01/2010

Captain America: The First Avenger casting notes


According to IMDB, JJ Feild has been cast as Montgomery Falsworth in Captain America: The First Avenger. Who the heck is Montgomery Falsworth? And for that matter who in the hey is JJ Feild? Falsworth is the British superhero, Union Jack, who occasionally worked alongside Captain America and The Invaders during WWII.

Feild is an English actor who's worked primarily in British films. He's had some fairly major films here in the US, however, including 2002's K-19: The Widowmaker. He can most recently be seen here in Neil Jordan's 2010 action flick, Centurion.

And finally a rumor, coming from Comicbookmovie, has Amy Smart(The Butterfly Effect, my dreams at night) possibly appearing in the film as Betsy Ross, aka Golden Girl. Before the Rue Mclanahan jokes begin, Ross served briefly as Captain America's sidekick in the comics. There are actually two similar rumors about this story. One has it that Ross's backstory will be tweaked to make her related to General Thunderbolt Ross, a prominent character in The Hulk, thus connecting the two films together. The other has Smart playing the 2nd Golden Girl, Gwenny Lou Sabuki, who is of Japanese origin and would serve as an ill-fated love interest to Steve Rogers.