Captain America Gets a Villain

The Captain America movie picked its hero, Chris Evans, a while back, and now it has a villain. Hugo Weaving, whose bad guy credits include Mr. Smith in The Matrix and the voice of Megatron in Transformers, has been picked to play Red Skull, the Nazi nemesis of Captain America. Weaving also played Elrond, leader of the Elves, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Captain America is due for release July 22, 2011.

Evans will also appear in The Avengers alongside other comic book heroes like The Hulk (Ed Norton), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth). The comic book dream team film, which may be helmed by Joss Whedon, is scheduled for a 2012 release.

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