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post #101 of 119
8/3/10 at 12:27pm
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True, but as I went on to point out, what works best with She-Hulk is awfully "inside baseball" for the typical moviegoer. Dumbing Jen down for the multiplex kinda makes me wonder what the point would be.
You can do "comic booky world" without it being too inside, like break the fourth wall for a little "talking to the audience" exposition, blah, blah, and so on. As long as you bring the funny, people (including the uninitiated) will roll with it. Honestly, a She-Hulk film is the only Marvel property that I would be genuinely excited to see, provided it's not a bunch of setting up a sequel / tie-in nonsense.
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post #102 of 119
8/3/10 at 12:33pm
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Originally Posted by Jeb View Post
All the best She-Hulk stuff is tied pretty closely to a real fanboy knowledge of comics. You'd have to lose that for a movie (particularly given the costs involved), and I'm not sure what you're left with.

Having said that, I could see Lauren Graham as Jen.
I think you just answered your own question. Even if you drop all the inside stuff (which I don't consider essential to the character, though she could always pop up as someone's lawyer in another hero's movie) you've still got a seven-foot-tall muscle-lady with a sweet personality. Ticket sold.
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post #103 of 119
8/3/10 at 1:31pm
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead View Post
I think you just answered your own question. Even if you drop all the inside stuff (which I don't consider essential to the character, though she could always pop up as someone's lawyer in another hero's movie) you've still got a seven-foot-tall muscle-lady with a sweet personality. Ticket sold.
Well, given that Slott's She-Hulk was one of my favorite comics of the past few years, it'd be nice if you're right.
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post #104 of 119
8/3/10 at 1:34pm
The "I've been working out" storyline would be a great arc.
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post #105 of 119
8/4/10 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
His intro in X-MEN always reminded me of Philo.



Drives a truck, bare-knuckle fighting... that hair.
Having just subjected myself to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I'd say the call outs to Eastwood by Jackman and/or Fox are thoroughly explicit and intentional. The whole Canadian sequence feels to me like it's ripped from a late-70s to mid-80s Eastwood movie, and the way Jackman plays the confrontation with Stryker at the lumber yard is some pretty obvious Clint channeling, IMO.
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post #106 of 119
8/10/10 at 10:59am
Hate to double post, but how about Paul Bettany for Constantine if they ever decided to make one that hued closer to the source material?
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post #107 of 119
8/30/10 at 5:19pm
Alexander Skarsgård would be an amazing Namor the Sub-Mariner.





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post #108 of 119
11/15/10 at 4:57pm
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT FOR CLARK KENT!
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post #109 of 119
11/15/10 at 5:03pm
But who would play Superman?
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post #110 of 119
11/15/10 at 5:31pm
Josh Duhamel

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post #111 of 119
11/15/10 at 5:32pm
Ha!
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post #112 of 119
11/15/10 at 8:32pm
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Alexander Skarsgård would be an amazing Namor the Sub-Mariner.
As much as I agree with this, I actually think he'd be a much more appropriate Aquaman personally. Namor, has always struck me as one of the few mainstream superheroes where the opportunity presents itself to cast an Asian actor in the role rather than whitewashing it and going the blond Caucasian route. Maybe I'm off base but that's how I've always seen the character.



Imagine an actor the calibre of Takeshi Kaneshiro or even someone along the lines of Daniel Dae Kim or John Cho in the role? I reckon it'd work brilliantly.

Skarsgård on the other hand is custom fucking made for this iteration of Aquaman...

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post #113 of 119
11/16/10 at 1:31am
Wasn't there a rumor going around that Supes would be done totally in CG. I figured as much since Snyder is directing and WB is doing the same thing with GL.

I mean, how awesome would Olyphant be?
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post #114 of 119
11/16/10 at 2:04am
When exactly has Olyphant done bumbling, nervous and boy scoutish to suggest he'd be such a good Clark? What great performance that proves this am I missing here?
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post #115 of 119
11/16/10 at 3:51am
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
When exactly has Olyphant done bumbling, nervous and boy scoutish to suggest he'd be such a good Clark? What great performance that proves this am I missing here?
There's nothing. He only plays cool.
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post #116 of 119
11/16/10 at 11:43am
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Alexander Skarsgård would be an amazing Namor the Sub-Mariner.
I also think he would have made a fantastic Red Skull. Hugo Weaving is far too old (why would Hitler have a super solider in his 50s?).

Maybe he can be Black Mask in the next Nolan Bat film?
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post #117 of 119
11/16/10 at 1:00pm
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Originally Posted by TheCatfishCommander View Post
Wasn't there a rumor going around that Supes would be done totally in CG. I figured as much since Snyder is directing and WB is doing the same thing with GL.

I mean, how awesome would Olyphant be?
They're not doing the same thing with GL, as the last time I looked, Ryan Reynolds is a flesh and blood human being possessed of abs with their own zip code. It's just the costume.

The CGI Superman thing was *rumored* to be a consideration a few years back, but nothing came of it, it's certainly not come up since the triumvirate of Nolan, Goyer, and Snyder came aboard.

For the record, I do not support Olyphant as Superman.
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post #118 of 119
11/16/10 at 4:16pm
If you're a fan of Olyphant you should def check out a recent indie flick he did called High Life. He plays a bumbling stoner thief, and while that's far from Clark Kent, I don't see any reason why he couldn't pull it off well. He'd sure as hell bring more depth, character and overall badassness to the movie than Routh or most of everyone else they are considering.
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post #119 of 119
11/16/10 at 8:34pm
John Cusack for Sandman (not Gaiman's).
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