First Look At CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

Entertainment Weekly has this cool first look at star Chris Evans in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER.

The movie — which also serves to set up Marvel’s 2012 superhero team-up, The Avengers — hews closely to Captain America’s WWII-era origins. The year is 1942, and Steve Rogers is a scrawny lad who desperately wants to fight Nazis for his country but can’t because he’s been deemed physically unfit. His fate — and his physique — is radically transformed when he signs up for Project: Rebirth, a secret military operation that turns wimps into studs using drugs and assorted sci-fi hoo-ha. There’s a love interest (Major Peggy Carter, played Haley Atwell), there’s a sidekick (Bucky Barnes, played by Sebastian Stans), and there’s the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), Hitler’s treacherous head of advanced weaponry, whose own plan for world domination involves a magical object known as The Tesseract (comic fans know it better as The Cosmic Cube).

For more on Captain America, check out the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on sale Oct. 29.

Visit the film’s official site here and on Facebook. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER will be in theaters on July 22, 2011.

Source: EW