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Hugo's Red Skull - Blog (05jun10) |
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June 5, 2010
Marvel Studios has announced that veteran character actor Hugo Weaving
will play the key role of The Red Skull in The First Avenger: Captain
America, which begins production next month in London. Introduced in
Captain America #1 in 1941, the original Red Skull was George John
Maxon, an American industrialist turned Nazi saboteur, but the character
in the movie has been identified by Marvel Studios as Johann Schmidt,
who was actually the second Red Skull in the comic continuity. Schmidt,
a German orphan who survived a harsh upbringing, was working as a
bellhop in a Berlin hotel when he was chosen by Hitler for special
training that the Fuhrer supervised himself.
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