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The Faceless Master
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and she's already used to having a black brother!
The Faceless Master
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who would they cast? what choices do they have? Zoe Saldana was probably booked. Zendaya? Keke Palmer?
F0rneus
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I despise this movie. I hate it with every fiber in my being, and yet it doesn't exist yet. I had no idea that Fox had the rights to Annihilus. He's one of my favorite comic villains of all time, and I was expecting him in the MCU eventually. This soul-crushing reveal, fills me with rage and contempt towards this new FF reboot.
MisterHero
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Downgrade for all characters. Jessica Alba is probably a nice person but she was miscast. And they still did worse than her.
Or at least put enough red tape so they don't reach the stipulated date and lose and we get DR. DOOM in Avengers 4
God Dayumm
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I was just joking "(
Even with its last twenty or so minutes, The Wolverine is a good movie, better than most of Marvel's tbh.
Anyway, I'm here for Kate and MJB.
thecouncil
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These aren't very good picks. Robbie is too young, Hemsworth isn't black, Johnson isn't made of rock and Mr. Fantastic is smart.
Surely black female actors exist outside of Nickelodeon.
Quvenzhané Wallis.
God Dayumm
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Maybe they will use blackface for Susan Storm?
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^Same solution!!
Hopefully, that way we can get Galactus, Silver Surfer, and Doom in the MCU.
I don't even care about the FF, just the villains they are tied to
George Oscar Bluth II
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Same here.
3D porn, it has happened before..
Also doesn't really matter if they can create fantastic movie.
flyinpiranha
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Continuity. Although I don't think in the very short time I read any F4 back in the day that it really went into detail about the parents. Just that the brother and sister were on the same team, same dad and mom is dead.
Have no problem with each as an actor but just seems odd. Like casting Will Smith as Iron Man. I have no problem with it, but it would be different having read the comics and such.
Other than that, I'll watch it (not in theater) because I just like visually 'cool' movies with stuff. And yes, I don't mind Bay films either.
MHWilliams
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https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/436595663955316736
They said exactly that in the Variety article.
They said exactly that in the Variety article.
Red Arremer
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First Class wasn't particularly good. It just wasn't utter garbage. But that doesn't make it good.
Nothing.
Unless you (this isn't directly at you, of course) have a REALLY hard time accepting the technicalities of having a black and white brother-sister combo. Which seems to be the rest of the thread. It doesn't matter a bit, what does matter is whether or not the story and the characters will be done well.
But fuck that shit, right? MBJ is Johnny Storm and Kate Mara is Sue Storm, doesn't make sense, man. Doesn't make cents.
Itchy//Tasty
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Any word on who's playing Doom?
OrlanisWorks
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Daredevil returned to Marvel but not for lack of trying on Fox's part. They were trying to get a reboot started up with Joe Carnahan attached (and this was after they courted Affleck to direct/star in another DD movie) but they just ran out of time before hitting the seven-year deadline.
Deadpool is still in their hands. I'd assume it's part of the X-Men franchise, but even if it's separate, they have a script they've been sitting on for a few years now.
pulga
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No one had a problem with Alba and Evans being siblings.
please the taco I had for lunch and promptly shat out is more latino than Alba
and im living in fucking italy
Pat Buchanan.
Daredevil wasn't a priority. Simple as that. If Fox needed to have that IP at their studio there would have been a film. End of story.
Carnahan gave them a pitch that took place in the 70's (I'm sure the 'mood reel' he put together is still out there) and frankly even that sounds too 'high brow' and risky for Fox.
Simply put if it needed to be done it would have been done. Fox saw no value in the series and thus it got booted.
While any associated with the Deadpool film wants an R rated that script will stay on a shelf indefinitely.
Fox don't make R rated films. Especially superhero ones.
If current casting if anything to go by....,
Michael Cera.
..., actually I would like to see that.
Northern Lights
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The cast isn't great IMO but if the movie delivers all that matters.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I didn't know she was Latina to any degree until Machete. She and Hollywood downplay it because America
I know the PC Brigade will hate this, but Torch's casting comes across as a lame, weak attempt to diversify the team. Instead of having the courage to cast Richards or Grimm as a black man, they cast the brother of a white girl with blonde hair as the black guy. Just comes across as an unnecessary complication to me. I'd prefer that either both Storms were black, or Richards or Grimm were.
heh, might be fun to see Torch cast as a gay black male. That way, anyone who might complain about it could easily be labeled racist AND homophobic by armchair activists. I mean, is there anything about Torch's character that requires him to be a straight white male? I can't think of anything.
Otherwise, I'm indifferent to the casting as a whole. But yeah, I'll echo others in saying that I wish Disney owned the rights to F4 so that MCU could grow even more. Depending on the trailers, I might see this in the theaters.
heh, might be fun to see Torch cast as a gay black male. That way, anyone who might complain about it could easily be labeled racist AND homophobic by armchair activists. I mean, is there anything about Torch's character that requires him to be a straight white male? I can't think of anything.
Otherwise, I'm indifferent to the casting as a whole. But yeah, I'll echo others in saying that I wish Disney owned the rights to F4 so that MCU could grow even more. Depending on the trailers, I might see this in the theaters.
LSauchelli
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Makes me remember the very first episode of Boston legal, where a little girl wasn't giving the leading role in a "Annie" tour because she was black.
I don't know if someone else pointed this out, but, regarding the criticism about them being way too young for the roles, they were teenagers in Ultimate FF4, so it's not like there's no precedent for that.
I don't know if someone else pointed this out, but, regarding the criticism about them being way too young for the roles, they were teenagers in Ultimate FF4, so it's not like there's no precedent for that.
That is an awfully low bar to set.
That needs to happen.
It's not necessary to rely on the Batman series alone:
Batman Returns (1992) The Crow (1994) The Phantom (1996) Spawn (1997) Blade (1998) Mystery Men (1999) X-Men (2000)
There were plenty of comic/superhero movies in the 90's. Not as many as since 2000 of course, but they were not unknown by any means. There were not many Marvel movies, but there were plenty of comic and superhero movies.
Thunder Monkey
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History seems to be the common answer.
Which I find dumb. These are fictional characters. More templates for writers than people.
This is why you've had some starkly different interpretations of them throughout the years. As long as you're keeping to the core template (in Torch case immature hothead) I don't see why they can't be changed in a myriad of ways.
il Diavolo
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PhoncipleBone
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Saw the other day that Doom may not even be in this. Supposedly the script has Annihilus as the villain and they travel to the Negative Zone.
Funny thing but Thanos is King of the Negative Zone in Ultimate FF4, it's like his only appearance in the Ultimate Universe as well. It'd be epic level trolling if Fox somehow had the rights to Ultimate Thanos and chucked him in before Avengers 3.
PhoncipleBone
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I am thinking it is a big troll using Annihilus to remind everyone we wont get Annihilation on film.
jokes on them Ultimate Thanos is a lame take on making Thanos more like Darkseid.
LSauchelli
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Either he's adopted, she's adopted, or they have different mothers.
I guess they may have shared rights? Kinda like with Quicksilver.
Looking at their version of Quicksilver, I don't think the general public will really care that much.
He'll be as quickly forgotten as this dude in that silver painted costume.
UnforgivenTwin
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They all look so goofy lol!
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