Not sure about this. Michael Clark Duncan did a great job, but I am not sure if I could buy a black man running New York in the 70’s.
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Frank Lucas anyone?[/quote]
Harlem sure, not all of NYC.
At least not in the 70’s. Modern day it doesn’t matter.
Still, if they cast Michael Clark Duncan I wouldn’t bitch too much. He did well in the first movie, and its not like race is a more insurmountable barrier than “blind guy uses sonar”.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Thank Gawd. DareDevil may actually be watchable.[/quote]
This
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The only thing they should keep is the same King Pin.[/quote]
Not sure about this. Michael Clark Duncan did a great job, but I am not sure if I could buy a black man running New York in the 70’s. If they didn’t go retro, I would absolutely agree.
Still, I cannot think of anyone better, and it is a superhero movie so “suspension of disbelief” can accomplish a lot.
Regards,
Robert A
EDTA: Cute dog in the avatar.[/quote]
I don’t know if Carnahan will take his pitch to Marvel as-is. The test reel was to show Fox execs how a seventies-era Daredevil would work. I’d like to see Carnahan do a Daredevil movie for Marvel, but it would be hard to integrate him into the existing universe if his story precedes The Avengers by nearly forty years.
He’d be an old man and so would villains with crossover potential like Kingpin.
That’s the same problem that dogged the X-Men movies and the ‘man out of time’ angle belongs to a certain Steve Rogers.
[quote]roybot wrote:
I don’t know if Carnahan will take his pitch to Marvel as-is. The test reel was to show Fox execs how a seventies-era Daredevil would work. I’d like to see Carnahan do a Daredevil movie for Marvel, but it would be hard to integrate him into the existing universe if his story precedes The Avengers by nearly forty years.
He’d be an old man and so would villains with crossover potential like Kingpin.
That’s the same problem that dogged the X-Men movies and the ‘man out of time’ angle belongs to a certain Steve Rogers. [/quote]
This is a very good point.
In that light I think Duncan should be in contention.
Actually, Daredevil is not one of the characters whose race is all that integral (Hell, with his father being a boxer it might be a harder sell to make him white). So that opens up the casting for the lead as well.
[quote]roybot wrote:
I don’t know if Carnahan will take his pitch to Marvel as-is. The test reel was to show Fox execs how a seventies-era Daredevil would work. I’d like to see Carnahan do a Daredevil movie for Marvel, but it would be hard to integrate him into the existing universe if his story precedes The Avengers by nearly forty years.
He’d be an old man and so would villains with crossover potential like Kingpin.
That’s the same problem that dogged the X-Men movies and the ‘man out of time’ angle belongs to a certain Steve Rogers. [/quote]
This is a very good point.
In that light I think Duncan should be in contention.
Actually, Daredevil is not one of the characters whose race is all that integral (Hell, with his father being a boxer it might be a harder sell to make him white). So that opens up the casting for the lead as well.
Regards,
Robert A[/quote]
Casting MCD as Kingpin was a masterstroke of lateral thinking: not an obvious choice, but he had the physicality and cold-blooded intelligence down pat (and compared to Colin Farrell’s Bullseye, he was a model of subtlety).
The only other guy I’d have liked to have seen play Fisk is a young Brian Dennehy: he has the stature and the shark grin. Everyone else is too fat.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I prefer this one…but it’s a fan made one. Too bad.[/quote]
That’s a very clever design. I can’t decide if it would hurt sales by people passing it by or if it would increase them through impulse buying…“Oohh! Buy: The Movie. That sounds good”
[quote]Nards wrote:
Oh oh…looks like it’s been pulled. Could you tell us what he said?[/quote]
On meeting Banner: “Are you a big guy that gets all little, or a little guy who sometimes blows up large?”…the rest is mostly chit-chat, but Stanton’s character gives off the impression that he’s seen a lot of weird shit in his time…
Edited to amend slight misquote.
P.S. The vid was an extended version of the scene where Hulk falls from the helicarrier and lands in the warehouse, waking up as Banner.
Lots of stuff being leaked from The Avengers dvd/blu-ray I guess.
A gag reel slipped out earlier today and has already been taken down in a bunch of places. The whole thing was 4-something minutes long, but this is the best I could still find:
[quote]Robert A wrote:
Actually, Daredevil is not one of the characters whose race is all that integral (Hell, with his father being a boxer it might be a harder sell to make him white). So that opens up the casting for the lead as well.[/quote]
I don’t know about that. Donald Glover supposedly made a big push to star in the new Spider-Man remake and that didn’t pan out.
[quote]roybot wrote:
Casting MCD as Kingpin was a masterstroke of lateral thinking: not an obvious choice, but he had the physicality and cold-blooded intelligence down pat (and compared to Colin Farrell’s Bullseye, he was a model of subtlety).
The only other guy I’d have liked to have seen play Fisk is a young Brian Dennehy: he has the stature and the shark grin. Everyone else is too fat.[/quote]
Brian Cox, maybe? A bit older (than MCD, still younger than Dennehy) and doesn’t have the height, but he’s got charisma and he can break out a cold shark grin/smirk/sneer, too.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I honestly don’t want to see an avengers blooper reel.
That would be like watching Superman fart…which would actually be pretty damn awesome to watch now that I think about it…but this ain’t that.[/quote]
I guess I can understand that, but it’s not like it’s a gag reel for Schindler’s List. Anyhow, you’re missing Loki doing an Alan Rickman impression. Just sayin’.
Mock up of an agent coulson esque vision unpainted, things to come perhaps? I don’t see why marvel would push creating a Coulson character in their books unless they don’t plan on using him more.
Brian Cox, maybe? A bit older (than MCD, still younger than Dennehy) and doesn’t have the height, but he’s got charisma and he can break out a cold shark grin/smirk/sneer, too. ;)[/quote]
A shaven-headed cigar chomping Brian Cox would nail the personality. The tricky part is that Kingpin is sort of his own last line of defense as well. The '90s Spider-man cartoon did that brilliantly when the henchman of the week messed up and Fisk stepped up.
Even though he hates getting his hands dirty, he’s more capable than the majority of thugs on his payroll. He has been described as “a wall with legs”: not jacked, but deceptively muscular.
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Mock up of an agent coulson esque vision unpainted, things to come perhaps? I don’t see why marvel would push creating a Coulson character in their books unless they don’t plan on using him more. [/quote]
I still think Coulson is alive. Yes, Joss Whedon is known for killing off established characters, but he’s also got a rep for subverting expectations…and Fury already lied to the team once.
Clark Gregg did an interview just before the release of the movie, and usually actors get very cagey when they have to cover a big plot twist. He was the opposite: every answer he gave about his character (and there were quite a few) was open, enthusiastic and funny (when asked about a possible Coulson solo movie, he said that he was the most vocal supporter of the idea).
He talked a lot, and there wasn’t the slightest tell that Coulson had been killed off.
Not really geek news, but this had me rolling - a well-meaning but misguided Italian woman attempts to restore a fresco in her local church with hilarious results :
[quote]roybot wrote:
Not really geek news, but this had me rolling - a well-meaning but misguided Italian woman attempts to restore a fresco in her local church with hilarious results :
