Few comic book characters are as homespun as Captain America. Yet even his overtly patriotic credentials weren’t enough to keep a film about his exploits from being shot overseas.
The upcoming movie from Marvel Studios was originally to be filmed in Los Angeles. Instead, “Captain America: The First Avenger,” starring Chris Evans, Samuel Jackson and Hugo Weaving, will shoot this July in London, where the story is partially set.
That decision was a blow to L.A.’s below-the-line community, which had been banking on the project to employ hundreds of crew members at a time when relatively few big-budget features are shot locally, thanks to rising competition from other states and countries.
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