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Right on.

I am meh about Captain America; but has Hugo Weaving ever not been excellent in anything?

Hopefully Hugo Weaving has at least a sliver of appreciation for what awesome roles he's had. Dude's been Agent Smith, Elrond, V, Megatron, & now the Red Skull. He's my best friend, & I'll never know him.

Dude has an awesome voice. And he was born to play villains. Huzzah!

Marvel just keeps casting big name, recognizable, pretty damn likeable actors to slot into their movies (and at least with Thor, you have Branaugh calling shots. I'll be looking for Derek Jacobi...).

Does this hold out hope that someone good and recognizable will be cast as Cap? Is there a secret darkhorse? Will Marvel discover me in time to play Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier? (Ron Burgungy Voice) All this and more from the One-Man Talking to Himself in the Shower News Team @ 10pm!

You Stay Classy, Selsun-Blue.

Awesome

Bulky German actors with superior dialect and the ability to become shorter/taller don't grow on trees :P

Height shouldn't matter, they'll have to cast Cap at a decent height anyway. As for looks it shouldn't matter too much since he doesnt have...skin...

Hugo should be fine, he looked a decent size and the crazy Smith late in the 3rd Matrix (purely performance, forgetting material) should work fine so long as we get the V for Vendetta effort, not the Megatron effort.

And does this mean in 25 years we can have Hugh Jackman with Jeremy Renner sitting shotgun, off to kill Hugo Weaving and the sons of Edward Norton in Old Man Logan?

I'd rather get a quality villian who's not big enough, than some bulky asshat who can't intimidate me cause I'm laughing at him.

All I can hear is Weaving saying "Captain America" in that same voice he addressed Neo in the Matrix, "Mr. Anderson".

DARN YOU, HOLLYWOOD!! I was all set to write this movie off when you had to go and CAST HUGO WEAVING.

*sigh* I'd better start saving my pennies so's I can go to the picture show.

So does this guy hate humanity or is he just being typecast?

This is one of those things were if someone asked me who should play red skull I would have no idea, but now he's been mentioned there is no one else that should even be considered.

FUCKING PERFECT

Hugo Weaving has not been cast in this role yet... according to the Australian press, he hasn't even talked with Marvel yet. (Negotiations begin "in a few days".) So this is premature speculation. Personally, I think Weaving was born to play a variety of complex human characters, not just genre villains, and that taking this sort of role would only lead to more limited typecasting. People who claim to be his fans and have only seen The Matrix, Transformers and other big-budget Hollywood fare have only seen one narrow facet of his range. It's telling that the other actor people seem to want to see play Red Skull is Christoph Waltz... because, y'know, he's already played a charismatic Nazi, so why shouldn't he keep doing so for the rest of his career? I'd rather see actors I'm not expecting to play villains do so-- part of the reason Heath Ledger made such an impact in The Dark Knight was that he was cast against type, showing viewers a different portrayal of that villain than they'd seen before. And I always want to see Weaving do something I'm not expecting rather than play watered-down variations on Agent Smith.