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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Doubtful. Dinklage's entire career has been based on "not playing a dwarf." Game of Thrones was an exception.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.![]()
Even there he's not playing a fantasy dwarf, just a short person.
I'd say that Galactus is probably out, not just for copyright reasons but also because the MCU's version of Dormammu is rather Galactus-like.
Also, reading about Pip the Troll on Wikipeida
, I'm torn between thinking that the comic debuachery would be right up Dinklage's alley given some of his other roles, and horrified at the outright offensive premise of the character:
Edit- Although presumably they would drop that aspect in the same way that Mantis is an alien and not a Dragon Lady who became a tree. Or for that matter, how Drax is an alien as well, not a mutated human.
edited 12th Jan '17 7:05:38 AM by Hodor2
Not really.....it will be a challenge to make the look differently, but in terms of motivation those beings are nothing alike. After all, Galactus is not out for power or control, he simply wants to survive. In a way you can't really blame him for killing all those worlds, even though he naturally has to be stopped no matter what.
Plus, I really, really want to see a silver surfer origin movie...or they could fold his story into a Got G movie.
BTW, Ao S is back and they really knocked it out of the park with their first LMD episode....I don't think that anyone even missed the Ghost Rider (save for those viewers who only turned up for him in the first place).
But Elena has proofed to be a fan of cruel and unusual punishments....(I really dig Mack and Elena, those two are so much fun together...I wish we would get more Fitzsimmons, though).
Fighting evil by moonlight, dealing with personal problems poorly by daylight, they never run from a real fight, they are the ones called De-fen-ders!
Forever liveblogging the AvengersChristopher Markus
apparently said Dinklage was his casting choice for M.O.D.O.K. back in 2011.
Some very, very sparse details
on Sigourney Weaver's villain, Alexandra.
edited 12th Jan '17 10:56:02 AM by comicwriter
Regarding the description of how the Defenders end up meeting up, I think it's very likely someone wanted them to meet up. My money is that Claire Temple, after failing to arrange a meeting between them directly, finds out that one of them is planning on investigating the gigantic hole in the ground. So she simply tips the other 3 off about the fact the giant hole in the ground is connected their current troubles. Thus resulting in all 4 of them showing up at the same place at the same time.
There is a darker possibility of course that Alexandra is playing a very complicated game that actually requires all 4 of the Defenders to work together.
I like the idea of Dinklage as an urbane, Tyrionesque Pip, as well as seeing more of the "Thanos family".
Also, not sure how it will work since Pip usually has the Space Stone and that's the Tesseract (although I see from The Other Wiki that in the comics, when separated from the Stone, Pip still absorbed it powers), but I'd like to see some instantaneous teleportation to give an idea of how powerful that Stone is. I'm imagining Pip having a conversation with someone and blipping out briefly and then returning moments later eating and drinking. And/or doing a Flash Step.
edited 12th Jan '17 2:34:14 PM by Hodor2
Sylvester Stallone is ''not'' playing a member of the Nova Corps
◊, if anyone had that in the betting pool.

Pip
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