Who's going to be harder to recast down the line Wolverine or Iron Man?

[TheUnknownX]

Wolverine

 

[GriffinSTatum]

This is so hard for me to choose... I think ultimately though I would have to go with RDJ. His movies are increasing in popularity while it seems as though the Wolverine as a character is getting a little less popular after every X-Men movie. I love both characters and appreciate the actors bringing them to life, but in the end at this current moment in time I think it would be harder to recast RDJ than Hugh Jackman.

 

[ares834]

I voted for how I personally felt would be harder to replace and that's Jackman. From a public perspective though it got to be RDJ. As far as the public is concerned, RDJ is Tony Stark. But, I personally don't see it that way. RDJ seems to be primarily snark and Jackman's performance I find to be far more nuanced.

 

[Ms. Marvel]

Well we all know that most of the voters like MCU more and couldn't care less about FOX's X-Men films.

That's not exactly true.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Iron Man and Avengers are billion dollar franchises.

The next actor has huge shoes to fill and there's no where to go but down.

 

[Drizzle]

Both of these are tough.

Robert Downey Jr. embodies Tony Stark so well that whoever plays him next will probably be automatically doomed to unfair criticism and comparison, not the least of which from fans. But I'm sure that's what they said about Sean Connery as James Bond years ago. Each actor can bring their own interpretation to the role.

Wolverine on the other hand isn't really a hard role to play. All you need is a good actor who can pull off a gruff badass who occasionally turns into a rage machine. The problem here is the attachment factor. By the time Days of Future Past is released, Hugh Jackman will have been playing the role for almost 15 years. It'll be a sad day when he finally leaves the franchise because everyone is so used to him as Wolverine. For a lot of casual moviegoers, he's the only version of the character they've known. His replacement will be hard to accept as well.

Neither of them would be easy transitions as Andrew Garfield taking over for Tobey Maguire or Val Kilmer taking over for Michael Keaton because both Downey and Jackman have (or will have) over 6 films under their belts when all is said and done.

 

[Lobo]

Jackman as Wolverine IMO

 

[Duran Man]

Rdj

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Without RDJ, there is no Iron Man franchise.

 

[Duke]

Without RDJ, there is no Iron Man franchise.

I view Iron Man & Batman in mostly the same way. Both are millionaire playboys who employ gadgetry in their adventures, etc. So, if Batman has been recast on numerous times, I don't see a problem doing the same with Iron Man.

 

[BlackFox]

What a shame we wont likely get to see the two best cast Marvel heroes in the same film.

They are both great.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I view Iron Man & Batman in mostly the same way. Both are millionaire playboys who employ gadgetry in their adventures, etc. So, if Batman has been recast on numerous times, I don't see a problem doing the same with Iron Man.

I mean that RDJ carries those films in ways that Christian Bale and Michael Keaton didn't with Batman. Those movies heavily rely on RDJ's charisma, so I think he's going to be/would be the harder hero to recast than Wolverine.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

both guys will be difficult to recast, but i think whoever takes over for Logan/Wolverine will have much bigger shoes to fill

Hugh Jackman LOVES the character and did him justice

at times i felt like RDJ just phoned in his performance a la Johnny Depp with just about any Disney/Burton character he plays

 

[Bruce Malone]

What a shame we wont likely get to see the two best cast Marvel heroes in the same film.

They are both great.

Hugh at Comic Con just said recently he'd love to do a team-up wolverine/iron man film with RDJ.

However it's unlikely Fox and Disney would agree to that unfortunately. It would be great to see their characters interacting. It would probably be the marvel equivalent to WB/DC's Batman/Superman.

 

[Tanin]

I view Iron Man & Batman in mostly the same way. Both are millionaire playboys who employ gadgetry in their adventures, etc. So, if Batman has been recast on numerous times, I don't see a problem doing the same with Iron Man.

Bruce Wayne is a playboy? I could of sworn he just pretended for the police's sake of not suspecting him as a vigilante.

 

[Duke]

In the comics they refer to him as such.

 

[Tec15]

I view Iron Man & Batman in mostly the same way. Both are millionaire playboys who employ gadgetry in their adventures, etc. So, if Batman has been recast on numerous times, I don't see a problem doing the same with Iron Man.

Iron Man has nowhere near the pop culture cachet of Batman. Before the Downey films no one even knew who he was. Just because Batman has been successfully recast doesn't mean Iron Man will.

 

[TheHeatKitchen]

Wolverine has always been popular and always will be.

Iron Man was a B list hero before RDJ. He could revert in popularity with wrong casting. Wolverine wouldn't.

 

[Duke]

Iron Man has nowhere near the pop culture cachet of Batman. Before the Downey films no one even knew who he was. Just because Batman has been successfully recast doesn't mean Iron Man will.

Well, we'll agree to disagree.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

There isn't much precedent for what happened with Iron Man, a relatively unknown literary character brought to life by a popular performance that turned the character into one of the most well known on the planet.

The closest I can think of is James Bond. The Barry Nelson version was unsuccessful and it was with the second man to play Bond (Sean Connery) that the character took off. In that case the character is still super popular 50 years later.

So it is certainly possible that Iron Man is on the A-List to stay.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

One thing going in RDJ's replacement's favor is the box office success of the Iron Man films. Even if there is a huge decline (let us say the new guy loses half the audience), that's still a highly successful blockbuster.

If Jackman's replacement loses that much of the audience the series is essentially dead.

Marvel has a lot more room for error simply given how much the Iron Man/Avengers movies are making compared to the Wolverine/X-Men movies.

 

[OnTheAir]

Great question...both have absolutely become synonymous with their characters and it will be difficult to get the movie-going public to accept someone new in either role. However, I think RDJ is the correct answer, as he has actually changed the general perception of who Tony Stark is. Right or wrong, I think those only casually familiar with the character now expect him to be a billionaire genius/smart alec.

 

[MilkmanDan]

They would have to change IM's personality because RDJ is IM. Or it will just look like an imitation (i.e. Brandon Routh).

Both of these are tough.

Robert Downey Jr. embodies Tony Stark so well that whoever plays him next will probably be automatically doomed to unfair criticism and comparison, not the least of which from fans. But I'm sure that's what they said about Sean Connery as James Bond years ago. Each actor can bring their own interpretation to the role.

Wolverine on the other hand isn't really a hard role to play. All you need is a good actor who can pull off a gruff badass who occasionally turns into a rage machine.

I agree with these points. Jackman is great as Wolverine but his take on the character isn't tied to his own style and personality the way RDJ's Tony Stark is.

 

[Picard Sisko]

I like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, but he didn't do anything special with the role. RDJ made it his own.

 

[Iron_Stark]

RDJ as Iron Man.