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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So, Lupita will play a Yandere to Black Panther? Sound legit.
You can see from the trailer that Cumberbatch is trying so hard to keep up his American accent.
Man, Marvel went highbrow for these Phase 3 new franchise. Cumberbatch, Ejiofor, Mikkelson, Larson, Blanchett, Thompson, Swinton? Plus McAddams, Russell, Debicki, Zendaya, Goldblum and Urban for commercial / wide audience appeal. The star power is going through the roof.
Kaecilius, Baron Mordo's henchmen in the comic.
edited 23rd Jul '16 9:40:28 PM by shatterstar
So since Strange has the whitened sideburns in some scenes but not in others, I guess his training really is gonna take a very long time and the movie is starting decades before the current day.
That's good, I was hoping Strange would be an older man during the main meat of the movie rather than a young'un.
Edit: Then again, wi-fi password...
edited 23rd Jul '16 8:13:03 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!She's a Flying Brick with the power to use photonic blasts, whereas Wonder Woman is a close-up warrior, plus she's not a literal Amazon, hence there's less of a built-in expectation for her to be an Amazonian Beauty (not that I would, uh, mind it if she was).
"Then again, wi-fi password... "
Well they're not savages you know....
i think the thing with Gadot is that when people think "Amazon" they pictured someone who looked like...I guess someone who did cross fit? I just watched a cross fit competition on ESPN and some of the women made me feel inadequate. Not that they were hulking brutes or anything, just the fact that they looked like they actually worked out.
In my mind Gadot showed me why the "she's too thin" complaints were silly. When it came down to it she rocked the part and had the right level of physicality, with even most of the critics and audiences who disliked the film saying she was the best thing about it. I'm sure with training Larson will have the physicality down too.
Nice Evangelion horn. I wonder how it'll affect his little psychic knife thing.
Back to the Dora Milaje. In the Priest comics T'Challa had a father-daughter dynamic with them, since he was in his 40s and they were in their late teens. That's definitely going to have to change since technically Boseman is almost that old (not that he looks it), and the women they've cast for the Dora Milaje are much older than that (Gurira is about Boseman's age).
edited 23rd Jul '16 9:24:51 PM by AlleyOop
Honestly, "she is too thin" wasn't really the issue with Wonder Woman. It was more a question of "does she have enough presence to play the character" and "can this inexperienced actress carry a movie". That some people went for "she is too thin" when they tried to figure out why they had a problem with the casting is unfortunate, but that argument was also strawmanned a lot whenever someone dared to mention any worry concerning the casting (thankfully it looks like the actress can handle it).
Either way, Brie Larson wasn't my fancasting, but she is certainly an actress who should be able to handle pretty much any role. And I certainly prefer her over some of the other choices which were thrown around, like Emily Blunt.
Did they mention who they picked as director, too?
Either way, so much news...though I would have preferred if they had kept the identity of Quill's father under wraps. I actually didn't expect a spoiler as big as that coming out of the panel. Love the new logo!!!!
I wish people would stop calling the visuals in Doctor Strange Inception-like. There is one part which is vaguely like one scene in Inception (The folding city) and believe it or not, Inception didn't even come up with the idea. This is more like the flower dance from Fantasia meets Paprika, the best of Western and Asian Animation mixed together and put into live-action. This looks gorgeous, I HAVE to see it on the big screen in the best 3 D I can find!
I was laughing so hard about the Wifi password.
Marvel is killing it this year.
edited 23rd Jul '16 10:01:05 PM by Swanpride
Chris Evans was still in his twenties when the first Cap movie was made. As were Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston when the first Thor movie was made. Yes, Marvel has cast more than one "older" actor for certain roles, but the issue might simply be a combination of sample size (in: There are way more male characters overall than female ones) and the fact that some of them aged while playing their role. If all male actors were cast in their thirties to forties and all female ones in their twenties to thirties, I would understand the complain, but that is not the case. (Lupita for example is 33 now, so obviously Marvel is not fixate on getting only woman in their twenties).
edited 24th Jul '16 6:28:54 AM by Swanpride
I'd say it's more a reflection of Hollywood's skewered age dynamics in general than something that is specifically a Marvel problem. We already know that Marvel are hardly ones to push the envelope when it comes to stuff like that. See also first movie with a black lead in 2018 and first movie with a female solo lead in 2019.
(On a very simple level, money will also play a role. Larson and N'yongo are both Oscar winners, but they are still at the start of their careers taking off. Same goes for a lot of the male actors they cast, with some notable exceptions.)
edited 24th Jul '16 6:48:38 AM by hollygoolightly
IIRC both Lupita and Danai's characters were explicitly underage (Ross, Martin Freeman's character, would frequently refer to them as "Jailbait" because he's an asshole) and they probably changed that due to the slightly creepy implications.

That's gotta be a painful fit.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!