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With "The First Avenger: Captain America" to start filming later this year, details of the story are starting to make their way to the public. "Captain America" director Joe Johnston has revealed that the film will begin in the 1940s and ignore the influence of the '60s and '70s "Captain America" comics.

Johnston told Film Journal, the story would start "in 1942, 1943" during the height of World War II. "The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s comic books we're sort of avoiding," related Johnston. "We're going back to the ’40s, and then forward to what they're doing with 'Captain America' now."

The Direcetor continued to talk about some other details about our First Avenger. "We're in prep," said Johnston. "Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we're set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It's the part of the process that I love the most."

"We have eight or ten really talented artists," continued Johnston. "And we all just sit around all day and draw pictures and say, 'Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could do this?' It's that phase of the production where money doesn't matter: ‘Let's put all the greatest stuff up on the wall and [then later] see what we can afford.'"

Earlier last month, Johnston stated that the story would go off in some different directions.

“It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It's the origin story of Captain America. It's mostly period... there are modern, present-day bookends on it — but it's basically the story of how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America.”

"The First Avenger: Captain America" is scheduled to hit movie theaters on July 22, 2011.