Nextmovie.com reports that Joe Russo and Anthony Russo have been selected by Marvel to direct Captain America 2, the sequel of Captain America (directed by Joe Johnston). Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, writers of the screenplay of the first film, are working on this follow-up scheduled to be released on April 4, 2014.
Joe and Anthony Russo have directed 14 episodes of Arrested Development, 32 episodes of Community and 7 episodes of Happy Endings. They recently directed the pilot of Animal Practice, a new NBC comedy starting this fall on Wednesdays at 8pm (Community alum Annie's Boobs co-stars). Other comedy series they were a part of include Carpoolers and two Will Arnett starrers, Running Wilde and Up All Night. They directed two films : Welcome to Collinwood in 2002 and You, Me and Dupree (which they also wrote) in 2006.
Given their background as directors of great comedy series, maybe the Russo brothers will inject humor and innocent jokes in the film, we'll see in 22 months !
Cool, cool cool cool... now get all of the Community cast some kind of role in the film!
ReplyDeleteOkay, this is interesting news! Humour was present in Captain America so hopefully they'll keep that up. I wonder how that'll work, though - I guess most of the humour will come from Steve's adventures in the Land of Modern Times.
ReplyDeleteAnyway. I don't watch Community, but I know that it is acclaimed and well-made, so I'd say this is a good choice. Hopefully they'll deliver.
Wow 2014. Long way for me. I'll be looking forward to seeing his adventures in modern day.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely interesting choice of director(s) I do love their Community work and see they also directed for Happy Endings and Up All Night. Really looking forward to seeing what they do with the wonderful Steve Rogers.
ReplyDeleteNice! I'm looking forward to seeing this!
ReplyDeletei hope it turns out good
ReplyDeleteGreat! Love their work on Community so sounds good
ReplyDeleteWow, this is actually pretty cool... and maybe great publicity for Community?
ReplyDeleteSo kewt
ReplyDeleteEven though I love Community, and their first film Welcome to Collinwood, I am pretty shocked by this announcement. But very intrigued.
ReplyDeleteWe'll just have to wait and see what they come up with..