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ruddiger posted:Elba was in the dogshit Dark Tower adaptation, he is definitely not above this. I initially misread this as Elba BEING dogshit in that film and was gonna object, he's the best part (McConaughey is surprisingly bad as Flagg, in all honesty) but good god was that movie a classic case of Hollywood trying to pick a brand name and batter the square peg into the round hole. They clearly wanted to chase the YA, Hunger Games/Harry Potter crowd and that's not really what the Dark Tower is. I mean, gently caress, one of the most well-known lines from the series is "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The film has that line done in voiceover... over a shot of FLAGG CHASING ROLAND.
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I think a problem with doing a young Constantine series is that he needs that background where he knows everyone and everyone owes him one for some event or other. Actually watching him have to build that network seems like it would be boring.
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Being white actually helps the entire point of his character, that of being a privileged monster that skates from pretty much all consequence while everyone around him gets burned to the ground. The specificity of his appearance as, you know, Sting is much less crucial. Same with the punk rock roots now that it's not the 80s. So hey, minorities should get the chance to play more nuanced villains in cinema, so I'm all for it. Making him young does scream this adaption is going to be dogshit though, yeah.
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Gaz-L posted:I initially misread this as Elba BEING dogshit in that film and was gonna object, he's the best part (McConaughey is surprisingly bad as Flagg, in all honesty) but good god was that movie a classic case of Hollywood trying to pick a brand name and batter the square peg into the round hole. They clearly wanted to chase the YA, Hunger Games/Harry Potter crowd and that's not really what the Dark Tower is. yeah, that movie didn’t deserve Elba. I remember being over the moon when his casting was announced. I was totally on board, and then the actual movie came out and welp.
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Like I said, McConaughey is the one you can argue underperformed, although it could just be bad direction. But Flagg's supposed to be this charismatic devil figure, this magnetic showman who corrupts all he comes in contact with and he plays it with this... apathy that just sucks your interest away from him in every scene.
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tbh i don't actually care about a constantine show, but on the hand it's crappy that matt ryan is not gonna get to reprise his role, on the other i really like him being on the legends. on the other other this news may impact whether he continues to want to be on the legends
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Here's a fun fact, the original Hellblazer comic gives his birthday as May 10th, 1953. So if his comics ran in real time he would be 68 this year.
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How about John Boyega? Hell do a crossover with legends and the keanu flick and get Sting and Emma Thompson in there and have just reveal that in every universe's John looks like a different famous person.
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Ryan has been Constantine for 7 years now. It's okay to replace him for this show, especially if it's not connected to any of the other stuff.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Ryan has been Constantine for 7 years now. It's okay to replace him for this show, especially if it's not connected to any of the other stuff. Yeah it was a miracle he got a second and third shot, and he nailed it but HBO Max is (or at least should be if it's meant to compete with the Disney+ stuff) the big time, they gotta pull a big time player. We're fully in the era of streaming now, almost no one is "above" starring in a streaming series.
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Sgt. Politeness posted:Yeah it was a miracle he got a second and third shot, and he nailed it but HBO Max is (or at least should be if it's meant to compete with the Disney+ stuff) the big time, they gotta pull a big time player. We're fully in the era of streaming now, almost no one is "above" starring in a streaming series. Plus if they wanna do a stunt later you get Ryan and Keanu in there as a multiverse thing.
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Mulva posted:Being white actually helps the entire point of his character, that of being a privileged monster that skates from pretty much all consequence while everyone around him gets burned to the ground. The specificity of his appearance as, you know, Sting is much less crucial. Same with the punk rock roots now that it's not the 80s. So hey, minorities should get the chance to play more nuanced villains in cinema, so I'm all for it. It's the racism of low expectations to think a POC couldn't both make a bunch of friends and then betray them spectacularly by their mid twenties as well as a white man.
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1362250490726252544 Batroc back in the MCU
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achillesforever6 posted:https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1362250490726252544 He better do more leaping this time.
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its great because he could also portray Batroc as a friendly, soft-spoken gentleman as well as a man who kicks very well and very hard
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We didn't get much Batroc, but his interaction with Cap was a lot of fun. I'd love for him to be in a Thunderbolts adaptation.
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Batroc is gonna ask Bucky to fight him fair and take off his arm.
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He's coming back for the live action Gwenpool series obviously.
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muscles like this! posted:Here's a fun fact, the original Hellblazer comic gives his birthday as May 10th, 1953. So if his comics ran in real time he would be 68 this year. He was aging in real time back in the original series. He turned 40 and 50 in the comic and then they clicked things up to put him back in the regular DCU.
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Argue posted:He's coming back for the live action Gwenpool series obviously. How would that even work?
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cant cook creole bream posted:How would that even work? They just have someone walking around dressed as her for all the BTS footage from other shows.
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cant cook creole bream posted:How would that even work? The comic was strong enough even before she got her power to literally break the fourth wall! ... but admittedly, having an encyclopedic knowledge of the MCU isn't that useful when the characters are keeping so few secrets to begin with. Maybe she could walk between sets and also steal things from the prop department.
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She'll know that the fastest way to defeat an enemy with powers is to exhaust the CG budget?
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We will be getting a taste of the old CW crossover magic this year after all. https://twitter.com/EW/status/1362435493506523139
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That's awesome.
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Marvel released a clip from tomorrow's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAk32wCK18g Wanda referencing quarantine is a cute gag but it raises so many stupid questions. They had COVID-19 in the MCU? Is it COVID-23 there? Tony invented nanotech before he died, how quick did they get a vaccine out? Is that why Wanda -- who was alive for three weeks before the show started -- knows about quarantines but we don't see anyone wearing masks or anything? I'm nitpicking for the fun of it, but at least these are amusing questions to consider.
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They should do a storyline where they have a crazy extremist neighbor who thinks the blip didn’t happen and is a socialist plot.
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ruddiger posted:They should do a storyline where they have a crazy extremist neighbor who thinks the blip didn’t happen and is a socialist plot.
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They should do a movie about what life was like in a post-Blip earth for that five year period. Written by Damon Lindelof.
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NieR Occomata posted:They should do a movie about what life was like in a post-Blip earth for that five year period. Written by Damon Lindelof. Obviously it would work better as an HBO series.
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NieR Occomata posted:They should do a movie about what life was like in a post-Blip earth for that five year period. Written by Damon Lindelof. Starring Proxima Midnight.
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I think a show would be too dreary and one note, but a mockumentary thing would be cool, get Phil Sheldon doing it
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So this one looks like it's in the style of Modern Family I think?Endless Mike posted:There definitely has to be someone whose entire friend group just didn't die minus maybe one person, but they weren't very close so him just dropping off the planet isn't too surprising. I would love to see that
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Retro Futurist posted:I think a show would be too dreary and one note, but a mockumentary thing would be cool, get Phil Sheldon doing it Spider-Man disappearing in the snap and New York still being hilariously over ridden with crime compared to actual New York would be a good reason for Moon Knight to become a thing.
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Skwirl posted:Spider-Man disappearing in the snap and New York still being hilariously over ridden with crime compared to actual New York would be a good reason for Moon Knight to become a thing. I always thought it was a smart move that Marvel explained the crazy level of crime in NY as a product of the city getting hosed all to hell by a major alien invasion. Most people who could afford to leave probably did, leaving a lot more desperate and traumatized people to live in the blasted shell of the city, with a black market of salvaged alien stuff and shady real estate projects creating a new avenue for people to survive or even get a leg up. It's something that the Netflix shows (and Spiderman Homecoming) did a great job of layering in. In aggregate, it painted a picture of a place that still had good branding, but was boiling under the surface with WMD level weapons dealing, corrupt political strong-arming, private military contractors run amok, and various criminal and occult organizations jockeying for power in the newly upturned city. This doesn't even get into the subtextual likelihood that SHIELD(HYDRA) could have been behind any number of these endeavors in order to justify political goals, like how the Reagan era CIA dumped crack cocaine into urban centers to fill off-books budgets and justify increased anti-gang, anti-black, anti-welfare policies under the auspices of being tough on crime and escalating the War on Drugs.
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Retro Futurist posted:I think a show would be too dreary and one note Hey. Hey
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CapnAndy posted:Marvel released a clip from tomorrow's episode: Gotta say, Olsen is really pretty in this clip. I guess the light accentuates her eyes.
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The last of the Netflix character rights have reverted to Marvel.
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Are you saying that marvel let the Netflix shows be....inside them?
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Riverdale timeskip means the actors are portraying characters that vaguely resemble their own age.
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