The Truth About Superhero Movie:an article about all the recent casting controversies

[DarthDorranceBane]

http://screenrant.com/comic-book-superhero-movie-casting-controversy/

What do you think?

 

[DarthDorranceBane]

Can the thread title be edited? :P

 

[Teelie]

That article was spot on but I only glimpsed the comments section to see fanboy lashing out like I typically do. I wonder if a single one of them even read the entire thing.

It's mainly a response to the Fantastic Four movie and the backlash (blacklash? I couldn't help myself ) over Michael B. Jordan but everything else in it was right.

Although I question some of the choices the studios make (not so much demographics but the actors themselves) it's also right that the illusion of these characters being set in stone is only in the minds of certain fans.

I have no problem with Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch, provided they give a reasonable and believable explanation for his and his sister not being the same race. It's easy enough to fix; a line or reference to different fathers, being adopted, anything. Even not being related at all (looking at the history of FF, it doesn't seem to matter at this point; at times none of the members were even originally apart of the team).

The problem I do have is the occasional attempt to shoe-horn in a notable name for the sake of that name. It wouldn't work if say Laurence Fishborne or Will Smith suddenly was Johnny Storm. That's just sticking a famous black actor in the role. Michael B. Jordan is a rising star but he's not a star yet so that's skirting it with stunt casting a notable name.

With having Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, that was life imitating art in this case, seeing as the Ultimates version is literally based on his likeness.

I doubt there will be a lot of discussion on this outside the various "they cast who!?!" threads already going on in various forums though.

 

[Rowsdower!]

The Samuel L. Jackson thing always bugged me a little bit. It's not because they decided to make him African American. It's because they literally just turned Nick Fury into Samuel L. Jackson. That wasn't the Nick Fury I grew up reading. Casting him in the movies was a no-brainer at that point; my issue is with them changing the comic book character to be more like a particular actor who hadn't even played him yet. To me, it's kind of like... if you want Samuel L. Jackson's onscreen persona to be part of this comic book so badly, then why don't you just write a new character based on Samuel L. Jackson? Why change up Nick Fury to suit him? I don't know. I guess it doesn't matter that much. I guess it could have been worse and they could have modeled Ultimate Nick Fury on David Hasselhoff.

 

[Teelie]

I think David Hasselhoff Fury would have been great for a satire comic but not for a serious interpetation.

 

[DeadPresident]

I think to a degree RDJ also falls into the SL Jackson trap. His onscreen persona is a good adaptation of Tony Stark, but he's also doing a lot of RDJing.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Marvel should create a parody character based on Hasselhoff's Fury. He could be a SHIELD agent that is constantly drunk and screwing things up, yet he keeps getting by because he's related to someone important. Kind of like a Marvel universe version of Archer. They could call him Dick Frenzy or something.

 

[Figs]

I think to a degree RDJ also falls into the SL Jackson trap. His onscreen persona is a good adaptation of Tony Stark, but he's also doing a lot of RDJing.

With RDJ it works by bringing something new to the table. If we got a Stark just like the comics, he would be yet another serious superhero. Are there really that many wise cracking heroes? Spider-Man, Human Torch and I guess Hawkeye. I actually have come to prefer RDJ's Stark compared to the comic version a bit.

I agree with Rowsdower! about Sam Jackson as Fury. Not because he's black(Ultimate Fury is basically based off of Jackson) but because Sam Jackson doesn't seem to be trying all that much in the role. People say Anthony Hopkins was sleepwalking in both Thor films(which I find to be complete bull ****), that's how I feel about Jackson.

With all that being said, that article is on the money though.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I would say that Hopkins wasn't sleepwalking in the first Thor movie. He genuinely seemed to care there. But in the second one, he just seemed like a guy showing up for work. However, that might have been the script, which strangely depicted him as an uptight old man telling humans to get off his lawn.