I'm Reading Your Stuff: General News and Discussion Thread

[Erik Lensherr]

Not happy with Scarlett Johansson. She’s a full Zionist who chose to resign as an Oxfam ambassador in 2014 because she wanted to continue working with SodaStream, knowing they were operating illegally in the West Bank. And she publicly supports Woody Allen

She is a terrible person. Come on, there are so many great actresses out there. Get Jessica Chastain

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Scarlett is 100% a bad person, which is obviously disheartening.

 

[squeekness]

Not happy with Scarlett Johansson. She’s a full Zionist who chose to resign as an Oxfam ambassador in 2014 because she wanted to continue working with SodaStream, knowing they were operating illegally in the West Bank. And she publicly supports Woody Allen

She is a terrible person. Come on, there are so many great actresses out there. Get Jessica Chastain

Chastain is always a great choice.

 

[SupermansPal]

For whatever it may be worth, I feel like it was mostly her team that pushed her for this.

She seems desperate for a big comeback movie, and Jurassic World fell completely flat.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

For whatever it may be worth, I feel like it was mostly her team that pushed her for this.

She seems desperate for a big comeback movie, and Jurassic World fell completely flat.

JW is very bad but it made a ton of money so not so sure about that.

 

[SupermansPal]

JW is very bad but it made a ton of money so not so sure about that.

Sure, but it did way below the previous movies, had absolutely no cultural impact, and no sequel has been officially announced yet, so it was not quite a roaring success like ScarJo might have wanted.

 

[Lily Adler]

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[AndyTrevino]

Sword's already heard all this at length so I apologize deeply lmao, but, my two cents:

The recent Marvel history is really ****ing with me. I've always liked how Batman in particular tends to attract actors who normally wouldn't do a superhero project, it feels more special that way, at least in my opinion. I didn't know much about her controversies until now, for whatever it's worth.

I guess it just depends on who she's playing?? She has the vibe for sure, I'm just regrettably caught up on an admittedly very silly hangup of mine.

 

[Johnny Frost]

If we get a Part III, I'm willing to bet that's where we'll see Selina return in a Hush-style reunion with Batman. Reeves implied that the next time we see her, they'll be on even more opposite sides.

 

[Lily Adler]

Oh god she's Silver St. Cloud.

 

[BatLobster]

If hypothetically the role was Andrea and they included some flashbacks it could be a bit of a nod to Godfather Part II as a sequel that expands the backstory (as well as MOTP obviously). The only thing is I'm just not sure if you can repeat the basic Phantasm arc. It could be part of some sort of amalgamated take on Hush maybe.

Given that Joker is in the mix and in Arkham, maybe Harley is another possibility? I also liked that flip in the Caped Crusader series where Harley was Bruce's shrink. Something funky like that would interesting to me but I doubt it. I just feel like we already covered the ground of "femme fatale who's out for revenge on the mob" with Selina's arc in The Batman and we've also already had serial killer taking out powerful people one by one with The Riddler. I think the only way another thing like that would make sense to me is if this time someone is taking out various people with ties to the CoO, which becomes the core of the central mystery of the film and digs deeper into Gotham's corruption like Reeves has said. I know it's not popular with some of you guys, don't mean to rehash the debate but just spitballin'.

Sword's already heard all this at length so I apologize deeply lmao, but, my two cents:

The recent Marvel history is really ****ing with me. I've always liked how Batman in particular tends to attract actors who normally wouldn't do a superhero project, it feels more special that way, at least in my opinion. I didn't know much about her controversies until now, for whatever it's worth.

I guess it just depends on who she's playing?? She has the vibe for sure, I'm just regrettably caught up on an admittedly very silly hangup of mine.

I kind of agree. Scarjo feels a bit "off type" from the type of casting Reeves did in The Batman. Not super psyched on it, but open to the possibility of it being a great fit for a particular role.

 

[BobJM]

It did way below the previous movies, had absolutely no cultural impact, and no sequel has been officially announced yet, so it was not quite a roaring success.

Jurassic World Rebirth: Gareth Edwards in talks to return for sequel

 

[SupermansPal]

Jurassic World Rebirth: Gareth Edwards in talks to return for sequel

Yeah I saw that, that's why I said officially announced.

And only Sneider reported this, none of the trades confirmed it.

 

[Boom]

Andrea Beaumont/Phantasm
Vicki Vale/Lady Arkham
Leslie Thompkins + side villain
Rachel Caspian + Reaper

 

[TMP98]

Does Keoghan even come back for this? He’s shooting The Beatles for 14 months. They lucked out in casting him right before he became such an in-demand actor but he’s in so many projects now that it might be hard to get him back

 

[Lily Adler]

Andrea Beaumont/Phantasm
Vicki Vale/Lady Arkham
Leslie Thompkins + side villain
Rachel Caspian + Reaper

The Telltale Games have warped your mind.

 

[SupermansPal]

Does Keoghan even come back for this? He’s shooting The Beatles for 14 months. They lucked out in casting him right before he became such an in-demand actor but he’s in so many projects now that it might be hard to get him back

I think he'll drop out only if they absolutely can't work his schedule out, and if his manager has half a brain, he'll fight to work it out until the bitter end, Joker is the role of a lifetime, certainly more than Ringo Starr.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

ScarJo is not off type and type doesn’t matter. I find her fairly despicable as a person and dislike several performances from her, but she’s a gigantic get and an almost objectively excellent actress when she shows up.

 

[Boom]

Does Keoghan even come back for this? He’s shooting The Beatles for 14 months. They lucked out in casting him right before he became such an in-demand actor but he’s in so many projects now that it might be hard to get him back

I've already decided that Reeves can recast Jesse Plemons in the role so we're good there.

 

[Lily Adler]

I think if he'll only drop out is because they absolutely can't work out his schedule, and if his team has half a brain they will fight to work it out until the bitter end, Joker is the role of a lifetime, certainly more than Ringo Starr.

 

[Lily Adler]

I've already decided that Reeves can recast Jesse Plemons in the role so we're good there.

You leave Phillip Seymour Hoffman's clone out of this.

 

[solidsnake86]

Its amazing that this piece of casting has almost upended most peoples theories about the sequel. It would be something if she was Andrea Beaumont. The story would be completely different though. Could see a gender swapped hush.

 

[TMP98]

I've already decided that Reeves can recast Jesse Plemons in the role so we're good there.

Ngl the more of Keoghan I see on film the more I hope he eventually gets to do a full-on Joker with Reeves at the helm haha

 

[Boom]

You leave Phillip Seymour Hoffman's clone out of this.

I can't.

 

[BobJM]

Andrea Beaumont returning to Gotham to infiltrate the Count, then hunting them down as Phantasm (or Talon) in vengeance for her father’s murder could be a good follow-up story; and it would serve as a parallel to Bruce’s arc—just the “what-if” darker path.

Throw in Harvey Dent & Lincoln March as red herrings