Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Yeah, but he does those movies to pay for stuff like "First Reformed," right? Five for them, and one for me.

Ethan Hawke should try for one of those tons-of-makeup roles, or a CGI animal person or something. Get that Groot money.

hmm what's D'Onofrio been up to lately

Acting AG, iirc.

i think he may be great idk tho its the kind of suspicion that would disappear if i looked harder than sideways at it

i believe i’ve already established itt that ethan hawke will be playing johnny blaze in the ghost rider reboot i am casting in my mind

I get the point that movies that have an actual artistic intent and involve more work from the actors in the realm of, say, acting rather than having the patience to sit in a makeup chair for eight hours are preferable work and are subjectively better as art. Reading about how the Coens decided they'd rather pitch to Netflix than try to make a play for traditional studio money for their oddball project is kind of disheartening. But if actors can work on smaller projects and parlay that success into a big paycheck wearing a cape and pretending to punch people, then sure, go for it

Ethan Hawke = Maxwell Lord obviously

Any era Max you like: Mrs Wootenhoffer, Maximum Force, the psycho years

no way, hawke is way too ratfaced for max lord

i always thought of max as like a young george hamilton

Max Lord was and is still Sam Neill


hawke is v interesting is there a marvel for him out there

Speedball ffs, read the thread


Reading about how the Coens decided they'd rather pitch to Netflix than try to make a play for traditional studio money

afaik they pitched and sold it to Annapurna, then Annapurna got it financed by Netflix

If Hawke is passed over for Blaze and Speedball, I'll see if I can pull some strings with the casting director for the upcoming D-Man flick.

he’ll have to get on the steroids

Max Lord was and is still Sam Neill

If Hawke is passed over for Blaze

he directed the solo film iirc so that would be a real snub

anyway he should play a middle-aged, battle-weary Cyclops

he directed the solo film iirc

the Method Man biopic?

I see what you did there Doc

Ok fine Ethan Hawke is Major Disaster, Oberon, or all four Challengers of the Unknown in different face prosthetics

Ethan Hawke is Matter Eater Lad

I still don't know what you're all talking about, but he should do a mo-cap Howard the Duck.

fuck i can see that

does his turn as a magic vagina count

Ethan Hawke is Matter Eater Lad

see now we're talkin

Guys.

DarkHawke.

does his turn as a magic vagina count

Howard's?

I was reading a review of her new movie and just thinking how Natalie Portman somehow managed to avoid the MCU, but then suddenly remembered she not only was in two of those Thor movies but is really the only actor to have jumped ship from the whole MCU enterprise.

Ed Norton! (Though really he was pushed out.)

Jeremy Renner too (?)

As was Terence Howard. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Yeah, and (Academy Award nominee!) Terrance Howard was sort of pushed out, too, right? But Portman opted out.

Renner is still involved, isn't he? He just wasn't in the last one.

xxxxposts (geez guys) Hugo Weaving is another that comes to mind. Zachary Levi opted for Captain Marvel (the other one) over Marvel. Terrence Howard and Edward Norton were some less voluntary émigrés.

Renner is in the forthcoming Avengers fillum.

Remains to be seen if any of the Guardians cast are going to split in the wake of the Gunn mess. Bautista sure seems checked out at this point.

Bautista rules

Zachary Levi was in two Thor films. He hardly features in Thor 2 and his character was killed off in seconds in Thor Ragnarok. I don't know that there was much in the way of opting out there.

a) He was not portraying the character who was killed off in Ragnarok, b) I have a feeling that at least some of the dead Asgardians will be returning.

ehhh the one-time villains bumped off at the end of the film, like bridges and weaving, don't count.

Bruh, no spoilerz but you might wanna watch you some Infinity War is alls I'm sayin'.

that's not weaving!

That's what I'm saying!

okay, fine then!

Glad we were able to get the customary misunderstanding-laden tussle between heroes out of the way so quickly.

now let's get on with derailing the captain marvel thread even further

(rolls up spandex sleeves)

Best Actor Nominees of the last 20 years:

Unaffiliated: 33 (Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Brad Pitt, Bruce Dern, Bryan Cranston, Casey Affleck, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Demián Bichir, Denzel Washington, Dustin Hoffman, Eddie Redmayne, Ed Harris, Javier Bardem, Jean Dujardin, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio, Matthew McConaughey, Peter Fonda, Peter O'Toole, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Farnsworth, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Roberto Benigni, Russell Crowe, Sean Penn, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Tom Hanks, Viggo Mortensen)

Spiderman: 4 (Andrew Garfield, James Franco, Jamie Foxx, Michael Keaton**)

X-Men: 3 (Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Ian McKellen)

Marvel MCU: 16 (Ben Kingsley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Kaluuya, Don Cheadle, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Renner, Jude Law, Matt Damon*, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, Nick Nolte, Terrence Howard)

Batman: 11 (Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Michael Keaton**, Morgan Freeman, Ryan Gosling, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Wilkinson)

Other DC: 6 (Frank Langella, Geoffrey Rush***, Jesse Eisenberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith)

* very brief cameo in Thor: Ragnarok
** double entry
*** a voice (1/2 points) in Green Lantern (double points)

Going back to 25 years would also net us Woody Harrelson, Laurence Fishburne, Liam Neeson, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Downey Jr, and Ralph Fiennes, who played Alfred in the Lego Batman Movie.

Obviously there are very very few people in the 'Unaffiliated' who could claim any kind of high moral ground over their position.

Some of those Unaffiliated folks starrd in some off-brand superhero stuff (e.g. Strathairn in Alphas). Also, Russell Crowe was in one of the nu Supermans, no?

Sure enough. And I'm sure you could come up with comics-related work for a lot of the people who haven't starred in superhero films per se (Hoffman in Dick Tracy immediately springs to mind).

Hanks in Road to Perdition, Mortensen in History of Violence, Depp in From Hell, etc.

Probably not the point Andrew was making, but still.

Superhero films definitely beneath the dignity of a Roberto Benigni.