First Avenger OFFICIAL: Hugo Weaving is Red Skull

[dark_knight08]

Hugo Weaving is an excellent actor and I'm pretty confident he's gonna be great as Red Skull.

 

[roach]

I am ok with the choice but that little blurb about updating the character has me worried...why does he need to be updated???

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Hugo Weaving = incredible choice for Red Skull! So happy it's finally official!

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i rather they go ionic red skull then trying to do any fuity updating which isnt needed. all we need is red skull in a nazi uniform and blazing red skull and he can be great looking.

 

[Abraham]

Perfect Casting, good to see it confirmed.

 

[bert19]

I think this'll be a good choice. Weaving is a very versatile actor (just compare his role in Priscilla Queen of the Desert to V and you can see that). I think he'll bring a new side to Herr Skull. But i do hope that they keep hold of a genuine sense of evil and terror when we see him on screen. He can be devious and manipulative, but he was a propaganda weapon to begin with, so i hope we see that.

And please, have him smoking a cigarette in a holder at some point......

 

[Brian Braddock]

I'm unable to access my photobucket account so I cant post a pic, but I hope RS looks like this incarnation:-

http://www.cville.com/members/adam/images/statues/Red_Skull_Bust.jpg

I dunno, apart from being the 'classic' RS design, it just seems to lend itself to Weaving's features.

 

[The Infernal]

yeah, I'm hoping he doesn't look so cartoonish.

Also, I hope he isn't wearing a jumpsuit like the pic a few posts up.

 

[Son of Coul]

As for "updated" that could mean anything. I mean, you could consider Stane, Blonsky, Hammer, and certainly Vanko "updated." They also said they were updating Jane Foster but she seems to be similar based on rumors and BTS stories. At least they didn't say "revamped" or "reimagined" or any of that ********.

 

[Bad Superman]

Hugo Weaving as Red Skull:

 

[Rock Sexton]

I'm unable to access my photobucket account so I cant post a pic, but I hope RS looks like this incarnation:-

http://www.cville.com/members/adam/images/statues/Red_Skull_Bust.jpg

I dunno, apart from being the 'classic' RS design, it just seems to lend itself to Weaving's features.

That's cool for the comics and perhaps a CGI-based film .... but for a movie shot in real life settings, it's a bit exaggerated. He would look extremely out of place. Right now, I'm personally wanting to see a deformity that creates that red skull look for him.

 

[BoredGuy]

I'm not a fan of pretty much anything 'Ultimate' at this point...


However, I really dig how Millar had Red Skull get his look in ultimates
Carvin off your face to intimidate people is friggin B.A.
If he did that, he'd automatically vault himself to the scariest comic movie villain ever

 

[Rock Sexton]

I'm not a fan of pretty much anything 'Ultimate' at this point...


However, I really dig how Millar had Red Skull get his look in ultimates
Carvin off your face to intimidate people is friggin B.A.
If he did that, he'd automatically vault himself to the scariest comic movie villain ever

Kind of agree here.

 

[The Infernal]

The Ultimate universe feels more like one long poorly conceived 'what if' at this point. Ultimate Skull is a good example of this.

Aside from what problems I have with the Ultimates concept I find Ultimate Skull looking a bit daft. He skins his head and yet manages to leave his ears on yet somehow skinless as well, maybe he should have been a surgeon. That and the way they draw his head, he looks like a shaved ape. Admittedly a shaved ape covered in tattoos and is a bigger asshat than Ult. Cap.

 

[Webhead2006]

i doubt ultimate red skull will have anything to do with first avenger. film red skull is more then likely goin to be 616 skull and nazi control and all that.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

Edit: double post.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I am curious, character wise how does everyone want the Red Skull to be depicted?

 

[SpiderByte]

HAPPY!

That's pretty much my opinion.

 

[Webhead2006]

hmmm thats hard for me, i dont know the skull character much myself beyond cartoons and what little i have seen of him in modern comics. So i just hope they make him how he was in the 616 comics a ruthless and bad ass dude.

 

[skiddyboy]

Found this on deviant art:

 

[louiebling$]

Found this on deviant art:

That's pretty awesome

 

[Webhead2006]

yea pretty sick design to who ever created it.

 

[Ipodman]

Wow thats a cool design

 

[Vile]

After seeing Weaving as V in V For Vendetta...part of me is hoping they go with the Red Skull Mask version of the character.

 

[roach]

while its a cool design it looks too much like a zombie