Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

Vin Diesel would make a completely terrible Black Bolt. Also he is already MCU-employed, he's fucking Groot.

Seriously though did anybody catch Wright in The Bridge as the mumbly, brooding, creepy yet oddly noble Linder? Seriously he'd be a great Black Bolt. I don't know why I'm the only person who understands all my best ideas.

i'm with you tombot.
though to be honest, i would prefer terry crews

or goldberg
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Is Black Bolt wrestler-sized? I thought he was a generically-superhero, not massive.

Vinagar Diesagon

If any single factor should disqualify an actor from playing Black Bolt, it would be an inability to act with his face. I don't feel like that's Vin's strong suit. But if he's able to destroy things with his voice, he might be worth a shot.

so you're saying Jim Carrey should play Black Bolt

They should definitely get somebody either known for never speaking (like Mel Brooks having Marcel Marceau give the only spoken line in Silent Movie) or like a famous big talker, someone Shakespearean.

I only want Jim Carrey to play Black Bolt if the movie features a recreation of the 'Cuban Pete' scene from The Mask except that his singing obliterates everything around him.

I just can't believe I'm reading a bunch of casting recommendations for black bolt regarding a movie that will actually likely be made

Bearing in mind that Vin spends the entirely of The Fast & The Furious looking incredibly threatening without hitting anyone, I think it would be a good cast.

truly what could be more astonishing than people online fantasy casting a speculative comic book movie
wait, iirc that might be the entire purpose of the internet

did your eyes turn red before the end of the sentence

Apparently!

in case anyone else is lost, my surprise is that the movie is actually (likely) happening, not that people are imagining who'd play a superhero

i just read it twice more and i get it now

I just read it three times and I'm more lost than ever.

i simplified it:

I just can't believe I'm reading a bunch of casting recommendations for black bolt regarding a movie that will actually likely be made

there, now no one will get unduly hurt

(though the movie still might not happen - VenomCarnage and Fantastic Four 2 were once posted in five-year-plans too)

I was reading another thing where Vin (Mr. Diesel?) was yet again dropping cryptic hints about playing a second Marvel character that wouldn't require the employment of his voice. Someone in the comments suggested that he was talking about Lockjaw.

i would pay matinee prices to see that

looks smaller scale than I expected, which is probably good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdV-lxRPFo

definitely a direct continuation of the second one anyway, rather than Avengers 2.5

I feel like I just saw the whole movie, too bad.

Ryan Coogler is directing Black Panther and Taika Waititi is directing Thor, so I guess I'll be watching at least two more of these things.

Huh, totally missed that they're moving forward on a "Damage Control" TV spin-off.

Calling all forks!

Finally!

Taika Waititi has got to be the oddest choice for one of these I've heard. I wonder if Thor movie will be a pseudo-doc about Asgard...

Also a Mockingbird spin-off (probably limited a la Agent Carter) and supposedly another sitcom-y show alongside Damage Control on ABC. And possibly a Netflix Punisher show.

we should start a "which Marvel show or movie will be the tipping point" thread except it's more likely that DC will overdo it first and flip the table for everyone

Yeah, I'm amazed at this point that Marvel has yet to seriously stumble and that most of what they've put out has been really solid.

Although the sitcoms admittedly make me wary.

Taika Waititi has got to be the oddest choice for one of these I've heard. I wonder if Thor movie will be a pseudo-doc about Asgard...

not much odder than the Russo brothers really

jessica jones is so far, by far, my favorite marvel thing.

Kenneth Branagh directing Thor I!

"not much odder than the Russo brothers really"

I think it's much odder than the Russo brothers. Those guys are professional Hollywood types.

Branagh choice seemed odder for him, until he followed it up with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Advertised "From the director of Thor!" so good tactical move, I guess.

"not much odder than the Russo brothers really"

I think it's much odder than the Russo brothers. Those guys are professional Hollywood types.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, January 18, 2016 5:00 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess. He wrote the script for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana_(2016_film) anyway so I guess Disney are high on him

sold!

“There’s a little bit of Midnight Run, with Grodin and De Niro,” Ruffalo told Empire. "I feel like that’s kind of where we’re heading with this relationship between Thor and Banner.” So is it a road movie? “It is a universal road movie – that’s where we’re heading,” he says, adding cryptically: “It’s not where you'd think it will be, so it’s not your classic road movie but it has that structure, I think."

wonder how chris hemsworth feels about being a co-star in his own movie

guess that applies to chris evans in civil war too

Or Chris Evans and Scarlett Johannson in Winter Soldier.

"Did you ever fuck a chicken, Thor?"

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wonder how chris hemsworth feels about being a co-star in his own movie

guess that applies to chris evans in civil war too

― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, January 25, 2016 3:40 PM (2 hours ago)

Or Chris Evans and Scarlett Johannson in Winter Soldier.

― Frederik B, Monday, January 25, 2016 3:45 PM (2 hours ago)

The MCU feels like major league baseball now. Nobody's making art, nobody's under the mistaken impression that they're making art, it's all firmly a part of the entertainment-industrial complex and that's cool. Feige is the commissioner, onscreen talent = on-field talent, Hemsworth and Evans are reliable innings-eaters, Jenny Agutter is a left-handed bench piece, Netflix and ABC are triple-A and double-A, Taika Waititi is that kid who jumped straight from being Crash Davis to managing A-ball for two years to getting the job managing the Padres.

Yeah, I don't think a "b-b-but this is my movie!!!" primadonna would get very far in today's MCU.

OTOH, even as they've demonstrated a willingness to recast when necessary, Hemsworth is probably one of the rare, indispensable members of that crew. Casting a burly, charismatic dude who doesn't come off as a douche is quite a coup.

The MLB analogy works pretty well- still, curious to see how they recast Iron Man & Cap as they eventually must.

A lot of speculation that Steve Rogers is a goner. Read Bucky's lips when he's grabbing Stark's arc reactor from his chest