Well the awesomeness that will be the next few years of Marvel films has found a director for First Avenger: Captain America. Joe Johnston has been recruited to direct the film which is set to release on May 6, 2011. There aren’t any writers yet but they expect to hire some soon.

But who is Joe Johnston and why is this good?

“This is a guy who designed the vehicles for ‘Star Wars,’ who storyboarded the convoy action sequence for ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ” Feige said. “From ‘Rocketeer’ to ‘October Sky’ to ‘The Wolfman,’ you can look at pieces of his movies and see how they lead to this one.”

What else has Johnston done? Well the guy directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. That alone should be enough to sell you on him being a bad ass. But if you want more he also directed The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, and Hidalgo.  If you want more on the story follow the link over to Hollywoodreporter.com

EDITORS NOTE: And let’s not forget that he was responsible for this: