Iron Man Official Mandarin Casting Thread

[COME ON !]

Ken Watanabe all the way.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I like Daniel Dae Kim.

 

[Mr. Vice]

Daniel Dae Kim.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Ken is cool and Chow would be great. Dacosas looks more like Namor but those were his young days. Jason Scott Lee would be perfect too.

 

[RAMORE]

Yune and Kim are good choices.

Tagawa is too old. Wong is too young. Fat I can't see as playing a viable industrial businessman villain with a maniacal streak.

Watanabe is good, but way too typical a casting choice. Ever since Last Samurai, everyone wants to cast him in any part where an asian male is needed.

This is because he was soooooo good in it.





But i do agree with you.

 

[Son Of Logan]

Damn...no love for Donnie Yen? Imagine if he was a part of the choreography as well.

 

[Hotwire]

Chow Yun Fat!!!! No one else!!

 

[dos_acoustic]

what about the guy who played Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat movie

 

[josh8]

i cant see Kim playing the role because anyone who can tell knows just by looking at him that he's so obviously korean. that probably wouldnt bother the general public, but i cant see him as anything but korean or korean-american.

ken watenabe would be a great but obvious choice, and i believe he can pass as being chinese.

yune is not a good actor, and like kim, he looks very korean.

maybe tony leung or russell wong, although i think wong is pretty chunky now. haha.

 

[Worldbuilder]

Or he might be Afghani

 

[TheVileOne]

Daniel Dae Kim had bit roles in The Hulk and Spider-man 2. He was Ross's aide in The Hulk and a lab assistant in Spider-man 2.

I'm throwing John Lone's name into the hat.

 

[tamron]

Another good candidate from Jon's MySpace forum: Daoming Chen. He played the King of Qin in Hero.

 

[TNC9852002]

I'm leaning towards Daniel Dae Kim. He's a relative unknown and he fits the age best.

-TNC

 

[Chris B]

Ken Wantanbe would be a good choice. Even if he was in 'Batman Begins', he didn't receive a lot of screentime and came off as a mystical character in it. Some Favreau want to avoid with the Mandarin.

 

[Cinemaman]

Daniel Dae Kim

 

[terry78]

Unfortunately most asian people are the same to a lot of Americans in general, and they end up playing korean, chinese, japanese and what have you regardless of their actual ethnic background. I honestly couldn't differentiate until I started going out with the current korean girlfriend, who has multiple asian friends that I've seen umpteen times in order to tell the differences, so it would be obvious to them, but not to the average joe.

The other question is do they plan on playing him as a younger version or an older version?

 

[Worldbuilder]

Mandarin is revieled to be Doom in disguise!

 

[BobJM]

Daniel Dae Kim is a really inspired cast choice, however, I'm leaning towards Rick Yune.

I loved him in Die Another Day. He had that whole creepy look to him and edge that could be right for this revamped Mandarin they're going for. Plus that picture of him in the first post just sells it for me.

Someone in this thread asked earlier, how are they going to portray Mandarin and his rings without it coming off as cheesy. I've been contemplated this a little and I think I've come to a somewhat plausible conclusion.

Tony Stark comes back in town, ruining Mandarin's plans to overtake Stark Enterprises. After Iron Man reveals himself to the public by some incredible display of power, Mandarin becomes obsessed with the techonology on the suit. Mandarin learns of Iron Man's true identity and manages to steal designs. Using the technology of the suit to his advantage, Mandarin creates gauntlets that he can wear on his wrist/hands, (Think of Graves in Die Another Day with his weapon armor) capable of emitting a powerful pulsor beam. (No 10 different powers, 10 different rings). Now, aiding by his weapons, Mandarin also has a knowledge of Stark's injury, based on the plans for the chestplate in the designs he stole.

 

[Alpha and Omega]

Who should be cast as the Mandarin? (I don't know if a thread was already made about this; if it was, I'm sorry, and could someone merge it? Thanks)

Personally, I was thinking of Ken Watanabe. The only drawback to that is his former role in Begins. That technicality wouldn't bother me though.

Your thoughts?

EDIT: I'm really sorry. COULD I HAVE THIS MERGED RIGHT AWAY? I SAW THE CASTING THREAD AS SOON AS I MADE THIS.

 

[kpjoon]

oops

 

[kpjoon]

In my eyes, Ken Watanabe is the 'go-to asian' actor.
I love Ken but I'm tired of him.
I'm not sure what his name is but I think it's Will Yun Lee?
The guy who came out of Torque and Elektra.
I think he would be a cool choice.

or maybe Hiroyuki Sanada from The Promise and The Last Samurai

 

[Alpha and Omega]

Originally, I liked the idea of Ken Watanabe or Hiroyuki Sanada as the Mandarin.

Then I read the article on AICN where Farveau said that they were casting someone in his mid-30's, so those two are out.

Here it is: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24012

Then I started thinking about other talented actors, and as someone here already mentioned previously:

Daniel Dae Kim is an excellent candidate:

Another good choice is the guy who co-starred on that cancelled NBC show: Surface. His name is Ian Anthony Dale:

You can see some more apropos pics of him at the old show website:
http://www.tv.com/ian-anthony-dale/person/169724/photos.html?tag=stars;more_img;5

 

[ObakeTora]

James Hong

Not exactly Chinese. He's Korean, but I always saw him as the Mandarin.

 

[Penguin]

I'd say Jet Li t:

 

[Avangarde]

I'd say Jet Li t:

Jet has retired from action movies now I think.