First Avenger OFFICIAL: Hugo Weaving is Red Skull

[TikkiEXX]

Still wonder how a talking skull is going to work.

yeah, me too. i really wont be surprised if he doesnt wear it at all, at least not in the first movie. i can see them making him the leader of an extreme faction of the SS called the Red Skulls or something and maybe he gets deformed at the end of the movie and has to wear a mask or his face ends up looking like a skull.

 

[cosmicherosa]

Madds Mikkelsen is perfect. He will be coming of the probable huge hit Clash of the Titans, so perhaps that will snoot him into this role.

 

[I Am Jack's...]

Mads Mikkelsen

http://www.**************.com/images/users/uploads/12037/mikkelsen%20red%20skull.jpg

 

[Webhead2006]

yea its great red skull has been confirmed. There was no doubt since he is cap top villain and the film being set in ww2 and all that. Cant wait to see who they go with and how they will play out the lost a mask, a mutated looking skull, etc.....

 

[TheFuture]

Since they are going the "unknown actor" route with Cap, it would be really nice if they cast a real "name actor" as the Red Skull.

 

[Young Superman]

Mads Mikkelsen

http://www.**************.com/images/users/uploads/12037/mikkelsen%20red%20skull.jpg

Agreed

 

[Adenjo]

Admittedly i'm not an expert on captain America or his gallery of enemies however.....
The Red Skull, i'd be more inclined to not go the mask route or the "actual" skull route...
I'd probably go for a the character starting out as a normal man, a soldier picked for the Nazi's own version of the super soldier, however the process goes wrong.
he is indeed blessed with great strength but also his intellect is greatly increased along with his far right views and his desire to serve the reich.
As for his physical appearance i'd have his skin affected by the serum.. It's colour turns a vicious shade of red, the bones in his face become mis-shapen and the skin tightens giving him a skull-like appearance..

 

[Aztec]

Admittedly i'm not an expert on captain America or his gallery of enemies however.....
The Red Skull, i'd be more inclined to not go the mask route or the "actual" skull route...
I'd probably go for a the character starting out as a normal man, a soldier picked for the Nazi's own version of the super soldier, however the process goes wrong.
he is indeed blessed with great strength but also his intellect is greatly increased along with his far right views and his desire to serve the reich.
As for his physical appearance i'd have his skin affected by the serum.. It's colour turns a vicious shade of red, the bones in his face become mis-shapen and the skin tightens giving him a skull-like appearance..

The answer to Red Skull is already in the Marvel film-verse. Look what an imperfect SSS did to Blonsky in TIH. His spine began growing out of his back and he became increasingly violent and insane. That's how I picture Red Skull.

 

[topdog1]

I'd rather them do another Italian Red Skull in nothing but a red hat than use anything from the Ultimate Universe. Yes, I hate the Ultimate Universe that much.

I vote Marvel film-verse. They need to craft this villain (and movie) more carefully than anything else in their stable. Done right, we're talking masterpiece. Done wrong, we're talking disaster. No other character or characters has this wide of a variable IMO.

 

[Dr.Dude]

That image a few posts up has the right idea, I think. His face shouldn't be a silly-looking "talking skull," but instead just look deformed and skeletal. While I'm sure there's probably been a lot of debate about whether the Red Skull should wear a mask or whether it should be his actual face, my vote goes toward it being his face. They got away with a pretty grotesque Two-Face in The Dark Knight, so this shouldn't be too different.

They've got to be really careful here to ensure that the Red Skull is as menacing as possible, because there's a lot of potential for him to be one of the big villains, not just in Captain America but in the Marvel movie universe as a whole. They don't have Doctor Doom or Magneto to play with as worldwide threats...but they still have the Red Skull, so it's important that he is fully realized.

 

[TikkiEXX]

im guessin he,s a regular looking guy at first and gets mutated later. maybe by a failed Nazi super soldier serum.

 

[mjames345]

I think TikiEXX definitely has Red Skull's storyline mapped out, I am thinking it will be somewhat like the Abomination's storyline in The Incredible Hulk.
I also agree with The Future and think they will definitely go the "big name" route. What I am trying to think of is who are some big names that would be good for The Red Skull? Viggo Mortensen? Although I think they might want to go someone in the age range of Cap, so probably the 25-35 range, in which case I have no idea

 

[Deaths Head II]

I don't think he should wear a mask. I think it would make more sense for him to just be deformed and it would make him creepier as a character.

 

[Compi716]

I've always loved the masked version, especially the way that Steve Epting draws him. There is something incredibly eerie about seeing Skull's eyes floating in the black sockets of his mask.

 

[weezerspider]

Double Post

 

[weezerspider]

Whoever they get, I HOPE he's signed to be in The Avengers as well. I can't get enough of Red Skull.

 

[GNR]

I just hope they make him a not to be f***ed with villain/badass unlike the order shouting moron we so often see in the comics.

 

[Artistsean]

I would love it if they stuck closer to the Skull's origins in the comics:
A lowly bell boy (maybe a Nazi soldier) who is personally taken under their wing and turned into his ultimate soldier (in their eyes).
In the comics his mask was used to inspire fear, as Cap's costume was used to inspire hope and pride and patriotism.
Skull also would wear body armor under his clothes as well as hidden weapons and booby traps (like gas spray on his chest).

But I will be fine if they went with him being a super soldier who went wrong too, like the original Cap movie did. Its fine by me.
It would be interesting to see the skull mask (and prosthetic to help the actor's jaw to more) on the big screen.

 

[OB1 Kenobi]

Just throwing a name out there, dunno if it's been mentioned before, but what about Christoph Waltz as Red Skull. He plays one hell of a nazi and he's a great actor to boot.

 

[Webhead2006]

i am sure they will play red skull right. so far characterization been well with the marvel studios films. So they will probably do him right and not muck it up like fox did with doom in fantastic four movies. As for look yea so cant wait to see if they go mask, or mutated due to bad SSS testing. And since joe has stated that they are looking at unknown/lesser know guys for cap and build up the supporting cast with more known names like how thor did it. I am sure they are probably going to grab a big name for skull.

 

[ultimatefan]

The Red Skull will probably be the biggest name actor on the cast, I suspect they will go for some kind of prosthetics to portray him, I hope they don´t wuss up on the creepy factor, and make it more Orc than Green Goblin.

 

[Webhead2006]

well i also bet the scientist guy will be a big name, and then if the invader guys are to be important as joe stated those will probably be some known guys too.

 

[skiddyboy]

Here's some images which I've found for your consideration:

Like this one because it looks like his skin has shrunk and gone red because of the serum.

Looks like a total mentalist neo-nazi in this one.

Like the one above, he still has skin, but seems to be shrunken into his skull and enflamed.

What do you guys think?

 

[cas]

The middle one is awsome (but perhaps too scary for the movie)

 

[Deaths Head II]

Like this one because it looks like his skin has shrunk and gone red because of the serum.

I believe that's Ultimate Red Skull, which is the one where he actually cut off his own face.