WELCOME TO THE MARVEL MULTIVERSE -*RIP STAN LEE & Boseman* - XMEN97 release 3/20

[everysingletime]

Emily Blunt was flat out offered Black Widow without any casting calls.

When she said no it went straight to ScarJo without any major search.

Daniel Craig was the 1st choice for Thor and even got offered it

IIRC Jason Momoa was flat out offered Drax a bunch of times and said no too

It happens all the time. Studios usually have a first option and if they say no then they usually open up the options and settle, just like with anything else in life lol

Yea. Exactly.

 

[tay1]

What if they use Betty Brant?

That'll be best honestly. Or Liz.

 

[robinvandamn]

Get On Up & 42 are pretty meh films but Boseman's charisma makes those movies worth discussing. He proved that can carry a film & has a very strong screen presence. He's just a great actor

Would people rather have had Lance Gross or Tyresse playing BP?

 

[tay1]

Get On Up & 42 are pretty meh films but Boseman's charisma makes those movies worth discussing. He proved that can carry a film & has a very strong screen presence. He's just a great actor

Would people rather have had Lance Gross or Tyresse playing BP?

Ja Rule

 

[robinvandamn]

Weird Captain America tidbits.. that I have no idea if they're legit lol just browsed some shady sites.


Apparently Sam Worthington was offered it first but declined and then they offered it to the dude from Tron Legacy. Channing Tatum was supposedly really high on the list but never came to the auditions

I believe they offered Garrett Hedland (Tron 2) the role because around that time he was getting offered EVERYTHING.

One of the most interesting castings in recent memory has to be Star-Lord. Imagining anyone else with that role is crazy now (the list of dudes who screen tested is crazy). JGL was considered a lock until the very end

The entire GoTG casting process is pretty interesting. Sooooo many people turned down those roles

 

[Master Zik]

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/how-...her-in-secret.html?cx_navSource=top-stories-a

I find this disheartening.

"Instead of keeping an open mind an giving the opportunity of a lifetime to one of the many under utilized black actors instead we just hired our the one black dude we know"

That's definitely not what happened given the past black actors that have already got roles in the MCU and the black actors who got cast after Boseman, namely Ejiofor.

This sounds more like they went to ask their first choice. He said yes, they aint bother forming a list after that.

Besides that, I'm not down on giving all of the black actors a chance but I can get a list? Cuz it seems they all hiding. For the longest before they cast BP the main names thrown out there was Boseman and Ejiofor. At one point homey that's done Brothers/Holiday/movies with Terrance Howard tweeted something but that was it. Some would go a bit older and name Honsou but then he ended up in GotG. Only other guy I could think of is Derek Luke and imo he doesn't really fit as BP (although I think he can play another hero) and he was already in Cap1 in a bit role if that counted. The only option would be to pick a nobody first timer.

To add with other examples, even back when they were casting Jessica Jones they had already picked their Luke Cage and were looking for an actress who had chemistry with him.

 

[lamekilla]

nah they shouldn't really give him a girl in the first flick IMO just have him crushing on a girl. If they really wanna do it right then Betty Brant has to be his first Gf

If they do Brant they have to give you the daily bugle in the first film. It'll have to be a crush type of thing because J. Jonah is not gonna have a teenage secretary so Brant will have to be older. He's in HS, have Betty around but have Gwen as the popular "out your league girl".

Bring MJ around for the ESU days

 

[Master Zik]

Weird Captain America tidbits.. that I have no idea if they're legit lol just browsed some shady sites.


Apparently Sam Worthington was offered it first but declined and then they offered it to the dude from Tron Legacy. Channing Tatum was supposedly really high on the list but never came to the auditions

I believe they offered Garrett Hedland (Tron 2) the role because around that time he was getting offered EVERYTHING.

I can believe them offering those guys.

One you didn't mention that they got pretty far with is Emily Blunt's husband, John K. (Jim from The Office). They got really far with him to the point he was auditioning in the costume. It didn't work out in the end.

Picturing him as Cap is more farfetched than when Evans got the role to me.

nah they shouldn't really give him a girl in the first flick IMO just have him crushing on a girl. If they really wanna do it right then Betty Brant has to be his first Gf

If they do Brant they have to give you the daily bugle in the first film. It'll have to be a crush type of thing because J. Jonah is not gonna have a teenage secretary so Brant will have to be older. He's in HS, have Betty around but have Gwen as the popular "out your league girl".

Not necessarily.

Print media is dying. We in the modern age. Betty Brant can be a freelance journalist with her own news blog (which is her exact occupation in the comics right now since she got fired from the Bugle).

Also in any of the comics, Gwen was never depicted as the girl out of Peter's league in school or out. She was the cop's daughter that was pretty smart and pretty but not #1 on campus that had a thing for Peter. MJ was the party animal with a broken home that was out of most guy's league. The out of your league chick was Liz.

 

[robinvandamn]

Weird Captain America tidbits.. that I have no idea if they're legit lol just browsed some shady sites.


Apparently Sam Worthington was offered it first but declined and then they offered it to the dude from Tron Legacy. Channing Tatum was supposedly really high on the list but never came to the auditions

I believe they offered Garrett Hedland (Tron 2) the role because around that time he was getting offered EVERYTHING.

I can believe them offering those guys.

One you didn't mention that they got pretty far with is Emily Blunt's husband, John K. (Jim from The Office). They got really far with him to the point he was auditioning in the costume. It didn't work out in the end.

Picturing him as Cap is more farfetched than when Evans got the role to me.

He almost got Star-Lord too. He made it pretty far in the testing process, I wonder if he'll be considered for anything else.

Hell, make Him Mar-Vell and pair him with his wife

 

[lamekilla]

In my casting world I would've had the following

Johnny Depp as Tony Stark

Brad Pitt as Donald Blake/ Odinson


D'jimon Honsou as Black Panther

Spoiler

Daniel Day-Lewis as Dr. Stephen Strange

 

[Master Zik]

Weird Captain America tidbits.. that I have no idea if they're legit lol just browsed some shady sites.


Apparently Sam Worthington was offered it first but declined and then they offered it to the dude from Tron Legacy. Channing Tatum was supposedly really high on the list but never came to the auditions

I believe they offered Garrett Hedland (Tron 2) the role because around that time he was getting offered EVERYTHING.

I can believe them offering those guys.

One you didn't mention that they got pretty far with is Emily Blunt's husband, John K. (Jim from The Office). They got really far with him to the point he was auditioning in the costume. It didn't work out in the end.

Picturing him as Cap is more farfetched than when Evans got the role to me.

He almost got Star-Lord too. He made it pretty far in the testing process, I wonder if he'll be considered for anything else.

Hell, make Him Mar-Vell and pair him with his wife

Didn't know that. Wow. He must be a way more likeable and/or charismatic actor than I thought. I basically look at him and think Jim. I'm not even sure how much movie credits he even has.

At this point he should get a role. I want to see how he'd pull any Marvel character off that's left.

 

[robinvandamn]

And I'm pretty sure Bradley Cooper was the 1st choice for Star-Lord

 

[tay1]

First reviews are in for Ant-Man

 

 

For a film forged under difficult circumstances (Edgar Wright developed the movie for nearly a decade before leaving the director's chair just before filming), Ant-Man emerges fairly unscathed. Free of the bloated running time we've come to expect from summer movies, it's a hugely entertaining superhero comedy that's a refreshing break from Marvel formula. [4*]

Source: Digital Spy

Besides being a breezy superhero heist movie, Ant-Man is the latest in a succession of shrinking-people movies which have shown off state-of-the-art effects at the time of production — worthy successor to the likes of The Devil-Doll, The Incredible Shrinking Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In brilliantly realised moments, Ant-Man clings to the grooves of a vinyl record, feeds a drop of water to his favourite ant, explores the infinitely small (a genuinely cool 3D trip) and has a climactic confrontation with an equally miniaturised baddie in an out-of-control Thomas The Tank Engine tabletop layout which seems huge and dangerous to them, though a witty shot pulls back to show the frenetic action-movie fireworks just boil down to a toy train falling over. A science-fiction, action-heist, superhero comedy soap opera, this straddles as many genres as the Avengers films have characters but manages to do most of them pretty well. Extremely likable, with a few moments of proper wonder. [4*]

Source: Empire
 

 

Ant-Man may have been the Marvel movie that was seemingly made because it was already promised seven years ago when the Marvel Cinematic Universe looked much different, but its relative come down in size and purpose represents something of a breath of fresh air in today’s context. It is an important film in the sense that it shows how Marvel can diversify not just in terms of different superheroes and different genres, but also in terms of scale. Ant-Man is their smallest film yet, and I mean that as a compliment.

Source: Forbes
 

 

It’s Ant-Man, not pants, man. Marvel passes its biggest test in years with flying critters… plus wit, flair, top-notch casting and some good, gratuitous size gags. Your move, Cap. [4*]

Source: Games Radar
 

Ant-Man may not have reinvented the formula for Marvel, but unlike it’s name it doesn’t come up small. It delivers big time on laughs, action and overall enjoyment. They’ve only gone and done it again. [4*]

Source: HeyUGuys
 

Marvel delivers another strong standalone film with Ant-Man. As is typically the case with the more effective of the studio’s offerings, Ant-Man works within the framework of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also delivers a streamlined, fast-paced, lively and – frankly – utterly charming story. [8.7]

Source: IGN
 

Marvel’s “Ocean’s Eleven” meets “Iron Man” mélange does have its fleeting pleasures, but is ultimately a minor, milder MCU effort. Size may not matter in this diminutive story, but the film's slight, disposable quality hardly qualifies it as an essential tale to astonish. [C+]

Source: The Playlist
 

Everything funny and mischievous about Rudd has been tamped down and turned into processed cheese here, just like what “Jurassic World” did to Chris Pratt. (Speaking of which, “Ant-Man” is the second movie this summer that takes the vibrant, talented Judy Greer and wastes her as a fretting mom.) The preview audience around me hooted and hollered throughout, particularly when there were any shout-outs to the other Marvel movie or TV properties, so no doubt fans of the “gotta-see-‘em-all” bent will eat this one right up. As someone who has liked a majority of these Marvel adaptations, I can only hope that “Ant-Man” represents a temporary dip that’s not the beginning of a slippery slope.

Source: The Wrap
 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe can be an awfully big, noisy and repetitive place to spend your time and money, but at its best, it can also allow for humor, whimsy and lightness of spirit — all qualities that come into play in “Ant-Man,” a winningly modest addition to the ever-expanding Disney/Marvel family. Though we can mourn the more stylish and inventive stand-alone caper we might have gotten from director Edgar Wright (who left the project over creative differences and was replaced by Peyton Reed), this enjoyably off-the-cuff franchise starter takes a cue from its incredible shrinking protagonist (played by a game Paul Rudd) and emerges with a smaller-scaled, bigger-hearted origin story than most comicbook heroes are typically granted.

Source: Variety

 

THR – Todd McCarthy

Although the story dynamics are fundamentally silly and the family stuff, with its parallel father-daughter melodrama, is elemental button-pushing, a good cast led by a winning Paul Rudd puts the nonsense over in reasonably disarming fashion.

 

Variety – Justin Chang

Though we can mourn the more stylish and inventive stand-alone caper we might have gotten from director Edgar Wright… this enjoyably off-the-cuff franchise starter takes a cue from its incredible shrinking protagonist… and emerges with a smaller-scaled, bigger-hearted origin story than most comicbook heroes are typically granted.

Coming Soon – Edward Douglas

Ant-Man is more good than great, and while that’s disappointing when compared to some of the better Marvel Studios flicks, it could have been a lot worse and that in itself is a small miracle.

ScreenCrush – Matt Singer

[‘Ant-Man’] is, at least on paper, such a canny change of pace for Marvel… Maybe it’s a bit too basic, though. There’s nothing distinctive or idiosyncratic about Ant-Man, which plays less like Marvel trying something different than Marvel trying the same thing, just cheaper. A few brief flashes of sarcastic wit aside, it’s as generic as comic-book movies come.

The Verge – Bryan Bishop

[‘Ant-Man’] knows it’s dumb. Rudd and Anchorman’s Adam McKay rewrote the script after Edgar Wright left the project, and what they’ve constructed is a movie that knows just how skeptical people are going to be, and gets around the problem by winking at nearly every major trope we’ve come to expect from superhero movies

 

[sunshineblotters]

Hottest Aunt May ever. Avengers would probably ask to chill at pete's house all the time.

Lol Aunt may can catch the d.

I was thinking Clooney for a uncle Ben flashback scene

Would be perfect. Didn't Tom Hanks say he wanted to do a Superhero film? He's another cool choice

And omg she's 50 lol she looks amazing

Tom hanks said he wants to be the hero or villain. He specifically said he doesn't want to be the guy who sends messages to the hero

Thor gonna be asking her if she wants to try and lift his hammer.

Lol. Thor be running from the yambs. Dude Hella suspect

Emily Blunt was flat out offered Black Widow without any casting calls.

When she said no it went straight to ScarJo without any major search.

Daniel Craig was the 1st choice for Thor and even got offered it

IIRC Jason Momoa was flat out offered Drax a bunch of times and said no too

It happens all the time. Studios usually have a first option and if they say no then they usually open up the options and settle, just like with anything else in life lol

Thor is prolly the worst realized out of all the solo movies. He made the right choice with bond.

In my casting world I would've had the following

Johnny Depp as Tony Stark

Brad Pitt as Donald Blake/ Odinson


D'jimon Honsou as Black Panther

Spoiler

Daniel Day-Lewis as Dr. Stephen Strange

:x at the first two

:x :x :x :x :x :x at johnny depp. So glad his career is coming to an end. Don't nobody wanna see him anymore. He could only play one character anyway and this version of IM is nothing like the only character he knows how to play.

 

[robinvandamn]

I don't even take lamekilla's post seriously

 

[lamekilla]

Y'all some haters.

 

[jays25]

To his credit, Johnny Depp's a phenomonal actor who can fit into damn near any role. I just wouldn't want to see him in Marvel, not as a hero anyways.

 

[Master Zik]

Y'all some haters.

I aint hate cuz I figured this dream world cast is when these actors are in their primes.

Depp in his prime could do Stark and be great. A younger Pitt could easily be Thor, he's done a ton of period piece movies.

And I think everybody knows a 20 years younger Honsou is the perfect BP.

And only in your dream world does DDL take that role knowing it's a superhero flick that'll have sequels.

 

[everysingletime]

Depp if he put his mind to it could be a really good Tony. It's just hard to take him seriously these days cuz all these characters he plays are parodies of each other. But if you can just ignore his really weird career.. Yea, I see the potential.

 

[shogun]

depp would pick the weirdest facial hair option for stark.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

really? Marisa Tomei???

 

[robinvandamn]

Jack Sparrow ruined Depp

 

[Master Zik]

really? Marisa Tomei???

It took me off guard, specifically cuz she's so fine and I don't think of her as old.

The real problem is our view of the Aunt May character is an old woman. Every version is completely gray The past Aunt Mays in the movies all come off more like grandmothers.

It may have fit in the 60s but her being that old raising her in-laws kids made no sense to me but I guess it also sealed up the idea of why Ben and May never had a kid of their own.

It's something we'll all have to get use to. In modern times, if your parents die and you're raised by your aunt and uncle by the time you're in your teens they should only be in their 40s, 50s tops.

 

[lamekilla]

If Tomei is Aunt May it's safe to say they're going the Ultimate spiderman route with the young hippie aunt may

 

[everysingletime]

I can see it now.

Tony Stark starts hitting on Aunt May, and they get a casual relationship going

He plays the unwanted father figure role and Pete will do the whole angry, angsty 'You're not my father' thing