The hour of big costume reveals is at hand! In short order, official publicity stills have popped up of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, Chris Evans as Captain America (now with helmet/cowl) and even Rooney Mara as the super-heroine-in-broad-definitions Lisbeth Salander from the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Just imagine what would happen if they teamed-up while you view the respective photos below...
My thoughts, in quick order…
SPIDEY: The last time I responded this positively to a costume reveal was, oddly enough, for the first Spider-Man flick. While the only thing that suit changed from the comics was the texture, the differences this one has actually make it look a lot more believable as something a high schooler would’ve snagged and subsequently failed to maintenance. (Pic from Deadline)
CAP: This looks a lot better in execution than any of the spy photos or concept art have made it out to be - - and it’s certainly light years above the suit from the DTV Cap movie with the rubber ears. While it’s cherry-picked from different suits in the comics from over the years, I’m still a little dubious about how period-appropriate it is. Then again, judging by how futuristic the (Hydra?) shock troopers in the background are, I’m sure there will be explanations. Or maybe, more basically, there's just going to be a whole hell of a lot of poetic license. (Pic from Geek Tyrant)
LIZZY: She doesn’t have the crazy amount of piercings that Noomi Rapace has in the original, so it looks like they’re going for goth without necessarily keeping one-to-one parallels. They’ve definitely pulled off freaky with her look, though. Oh yes. Yes, indeed. I suppose the real reveal’s coming whenever her titular back-covering tattoo shows up, though. (Pics from MTV)
I re-watched Iron Man the other night, and it's still a really fun movie. I hope they capture that same tone and don't get too bogged down in the serious nature of WWII.
"To prepare for the role of Lisbeth Salander, actress Rooney Mara (shown here on location in Stockholm) had her eyebrows bleached, her hair chopped, and her lip, brow, nose, and nipple pierced—all in one “very intense” day."
They did a good job with it. She looks nigh unrecognizable from The Social Network. I still need to see the original, but I'm looking forward to this one because of FIncher's obvious track record.
As for the others, both of those are looking great as well. Hopefully Spider-Man is as dark and gritty as that shot indicates.
Spidey is perfection <3
I would prefer something much more subtle. Sure, subtly is lost on Lizbeth's outward appearances, but I considered her look to be a false front. A costume she wore to fool everyone around her. A more subtle and pretty tattoo would make for good contrast.
Cap: The suit looks ok. But I don't buy Chris Evans as Cap AT ALL.
Lizbeth: Haven't read the books or the seen the original movies, so I can't really comment.
Spidey looks good Garfield looks skinny as heck
Cap's looks good. A bit modern, as you say. Are we sure that he's still in WW2 in this photo? I'd have preferred something a little closer to the original rather than the Ultimate one, but they've moved other things, like Nick Fury, closer to the Ultimates too.
why cant they just use the same costume as in sam raimi's spider?
That is batshit crazy/intese