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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
This news pleases me greatly.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Isaiah Mustafa is a terrible actor (or at least he was when he was on Chuck), and Michael Jai White always struck me as a little too lean for the role. Besides the fact that he's playing Bronze Tiger on Arrow.
Terry Crews would have been my #1 pick, but the guy they got is good too. I remember him from when I used to watch The Following.
Benedict Cumberbatch is a good choice for Strange. I have no problems with him as a person or actor. I can't stand his fans, though.
Warning: very strong personal opinion, YMMV
Oh, for fuck's sake. Get the FUCK OUT OF MY MCU, CUMBERBATCH.
I am so damn sick of Cumberbatch. Yeah, he's competent, but I disliked him in Star Trek Into Darkness, was indifferent to him as Smaug, and haven't seen him in anything else except Sherlock and Amazing Grace. He's fine as Sherlock, but I think he's seriously overrated.
As for his own personality, I think he comes off as obnoxiously posh. He's said some rather shady stuff in interviews.
Finally, I wanted someone B-List or C-List for Strange (personal preference: Pedro Pascal). Pascal has an amazing range, I think he'd do well with the depth and the sincerity of Strange, as well as the arrogance. He's not hyperbusy like Cumberbatch, and he'd mesh more with the current MCU.
Cumberbatch is too well known, too overexposed. It'd be like Norton as Hulk in the Avengers... it just feels wrong.
I'm not a big Doctor Strange fan; I'm one of the MCU only fans who barely reads comics. But I love the MCU more than any other intellectual property in the last few years. Deeply, deeply love the MCU. And now I actively don't want to see Doctor Strange because it's fucking Cumberbatch.
/end rant
Ah, there we go. I was wondering when his name would get brought up. Balance has been restored to the Universe.
Additionally: Pedro Pascal's busy with being Pontius Pilot in the Ben-Hur remake anyway. And in TV.
edited 4th Dec '14 4:54:22 PM by GethKnight
While I haven't seen 12 Years a Slave yet, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that his character in that probably wasn't British, so...yes, I'm sure he has one.
On a somewhat more subjective track, as a British actor, he'd be stupid not to have a general American, just as an American actor would be stupid not to have a standard English. ...Or a Canadian actor would be stupid to not have both. *coughs nonchalantly*

Our Doctor Strange is Sherlock/Smaug.