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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Also two thirds of those haven't even aired yet. The article really looks like dickwaving.
The main issue IMO is that Marvel keeps its most famous heroes for the big screen (or doesn't own them yet - X-Men), so the little one gets less-famous ones - compare to The Flash, Supergirl or almost-Batman (Gotham) for DC.
But if Netflix keeps being awesome, maybe they will manage to rope in one of the established MCU superstars to film an entire season. Marvel's Black Widow or Marvel's Hawkeye could be amazing TV shows.
I don't know, some movie stars are acting in TV shows now. Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson (both in the same series), Colin Farrell, Jack Black...okay, Scarjo is in the next fame tier, but Jeremy Renner? I doubt he costs much more than Kevin Spacey (and Robin Wright).
It is unlikely, but some actors might find the opportunity interesting, especially after the rave reviews of Daredevil or Jessica Jones. If it keeps going on with Iron Fist and Luke Cage, I would say that everything is possible.
Jeremy Renner has a more successful movie career right now than either Kevin Spacey or Robin Wright, though. Part of the reason those two went towards TV is because they weren't nearly as popular as they were in the 90's (though HOC has boosted their profile a lot since then).
Ironically, despite that, he has done TV. He showed up on Louie and he's going to be guest-starring on some knight drama he produced for the History Channel.
She probably had one of the more successful careers before being cast. A lot of the MCU heroes are up and comers or people who have never quite hit it big (or people like RDJ whose careers had slowed down at the time), but she and Jeremy Renner were both fairly big names going in. I guess Ruffalo and Sam Jackson too.
In fact Joss Whedon said there was a period where they thought Black Widow wouldn't be in The Avengers because salary negotiations with Scarjo's agents were going south.
edited 12th Mar '16 3:53:13 PM by comicwriter
Mark Ruffalo was a decently famous actor before but he wasn't really anything major.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Someone said this'll be Thor's reaction when he gets back to Earth after Civil War
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edited 12th Mar '16 4:16:59 PM by comicwriter
Speaking of MCU people in the Netflix shows, I had this idea, since Paul Rudd still does tv (and I think was in the Netflix Wet Hot American Summer show)-
In the last episode, you'd have all the main characters called to a location and a mysterious figure what step out of the shadows and it would be Scott Lang trying to be cool/pretending he's Nick Fury and welcoming them to the "Defenders Initiative".
edited 12th Mar '16 8:01:54 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
To be fair, Paul Rudd has made plenty of TV appearances outside of Parks and Rec and Wet Hot American Summer. I mean, just look at his IMDB page.
Most of those are way smaller scale than his work on those two shows, though. Since at least 2008, the most you can get out of him on TV that's not those two shows is, like, three episodes of Burning Love—which, oh, hey, look, had fellow Wet Hot alumni Ken Marino and Michael Ian Black involved, so actually was a personal favor, probably.
Point being, claiming that Paul Rudd "still does TV" is incredibly misleading. Like, you want him for a two-second cameo in a Defenders show, I guess that's plausible? But not something where his career in television actually matters.
edited 12th Mar '16 10:06:33 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

I'm really not certain how damage control is going to work. The MCU is not populated or active enough for the premise to make sense. Not enough stuff is getting trashed regularly enough.