“Captain America” 1979 is reasonable, tacky, and gradual. It by no means linked with audiences the identical manner Common Tv’s different Marvel enterprise, “The Unimaginable Hulk,” did, solely to develop into a smash hit for the community. Holcomb laments the undertaking as his mistake for taking a for-hire job that hardly ever requested for his real artistic enter:

“I did a really, very dangerous job on this. It was directed badly, it was written badly, it was shot badly, it was acted badly, it was edited badly, they have been speaking about making an attempt to fireplace me and the studio on the time, you realize, ‘trigger I had labored with them, stated, ‘No, let’s not break this child. Let’s you realize,’ and CBS needed me off of the present. And oh god, it went on and on and on … I failed, crying at evening. It was devastating, folks needed to fireplace me, I by no means, I shot it for the studio, I shot it for the community, I shot it for my good friend who gave me the job. I by no means as soon as shot anyone body for myself. By no means one body for myself.”

The director defined that, fortunately, networks have been extra forgiving than to dismiss a filmmaker primarily based on one undertaking, and CBS gave him one other likelihood to work once more. Holcomb would transfer on to have a protracted and fruitful profession directing episodes of sequence like the unique “Battlestar Galactica,” “Fantasy Island,” “ER,” “The West Wing,” and “Misplaced.” Nevertheless, unusually sufficient and regardless of the movie’s failure, Common launched a sequel the identical 12 months, “Captain America II: Demise Too Quickly,” this time directed by Ivan Nagy, boyfriend of the notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and that includes the legendary Christopher Lee because the villain.