First look: Hugo Weaving as Red Skull in 'Captain America: The First Avenger'

In this summer's Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans plays a scrawny, sickly wannabe soldier during World War II who gets an injection that turns him into a super-warrior.


Take a look at me now! Hugo Weaving as Red Skull aka Johann Schmidt

A similar experiment was also established by the Nazis, but turned their test subject -- the weapons developer Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) -- into the ghastly Red Skull.

The premise of the movie, out July 22 in the US, is that the serum only brings out the subject's inner strength. Good guys, like Steve Rogers, remain good guys -- only much tougher. Bad guys, like Schmidt, turn into living horrors.