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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
She was only a little stupider than everyone else involved in Civil War was being.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersFull round of face punchings all around then!
Tony gets an extra one because its his birthday
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMore than you know. If my typing speed falls below 60 wpm, the keyboard will explode.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Kevin Feige says the directors for Black Panther and Captain Marvel will be announced by the end of the Summer
, and that Phase 3 is going to have a greater shift towards diversity.
What, are you expecting Black Panther and Carol Danvers to be cast as white men?
BREAKING NEWS: Vanilla Ice recently cast as Black Panther.
edited 24th Jun '15 1:50:22 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Eminem to play Captain Marvel?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.And that's who Tom Holland is really playing.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Paul Rudd talking about Civil War
, apparently he was very intimidated to be sharing scenes with Chris Evans and RDJ.
Kevin Feige also says the Ant-Man movie gets Scott "On the Avengers' radar" and that some of the stuff in the movie about dimensions and other realms will be important to the MCU down the line.
They were only looking at Tilda Swinton. Haven't formally cast her yet and it may go to someone else entirely. But I believe Chiwetele Ejiofor's casting was definitive. I still wonder how that's going to turn out since Baron Mordo was a Romanian, well, baron. They certainly can't keep that aspect 1:1.
From what I can tell Romania doesn't have many black citizens, let alone any black aristocrats either now or then. There is a significant Roma population, and they could try to finagle him into the iffy situation of playing a character of Roma descent, or that he's half Romanian, but that would probably just cause a whole mess of other problems.
I'm thinking they're going to either combine Mordo with Brother Voodoo if he's going to be a more heroic figure (although I'd rather they leave that role separate for another aspiring black actor) or they'll combine him with some aspects of Baron Samedi.
edited 24th Jun '15 2:18:30 PM by AlleyOop
I'm not sure they'll answer if one way or another but if they really had to wank an answer, they could go with the time-honored tradition of just saying he was adopted. Some wealthy Romanians adopted an African boy or something, which is hardly unheard of in the real world (well maybe not Romanians specifically but the trend of wealthy people adopting babies from foreign countries).
Or he just tells Doctor Strange he spends a lot of time sunbathing.
I'd guess that they'd remove the aristocracy thing entirely. Like note similarly how Strucker is just a HYDRA scientist in the MCU. I'm sure that's partly to downplay him specifically being a Nazi Nobleman, but I think it's a good parallel.
edited 24th Jun '15 2:32:57 PM by Hodor2
Which was a bloody shame because being a Nazi Nobleman is more or less the entire crux of the character.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."

I wondered where she was in Iron Man 3. Apparently she was once going to be in The Avengers.