Avengers casting
Apr. 15th, 2010 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesA couple of recent posts have mentioned that Joss Whedon is to direct an Avengers movie.
So, depending on which era, who should they cast? My thoughts are
My guess on villains would be the Cybernauts, high time they got another outing, though of course these days they'd look more human. Multiple Eliza Dushku's?
Note for the literally-minded - I am in fact aware which Avengers JW is directing...
So, depending on which era, who should they cast? My thoughts are
- Tony Head as Steed, of course.
- Summer Glau is maybe a bit young to be Mrs Peel, but maybe if they set it in the New Avengers era she'd be OK as Purdey.
- And if they did use the New Avengers era Alexis Denisof might be OK as Gambit - or possibly James Marsters though I'm not sure about that one.
My guess on villains would be the Cybernauts, high time they got another outing, though of course these days they'd look more human. Multiple Eliza Dushku's?
Note for the literally-minded - I am in fact aware which Avengers JW is directing...
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:17 am (UTC)These are the Avengers they're talking about
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:40 am (UTC)Mea culpa.
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Date: 2010-04-15 09:02 am (UTC)Correction
Date: 2010-04-15 08:18 am (UTC)It's been on the planning stage for a while now, hence the crossover/cameos in the last two films (Stark in Hulk, Nick Fury/Samuel L Jackson in Iron Man)... still, it would be good news if Whedon got the job!
Now about those casting ideas... Nathan Fillion as Captain America?
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:25 am (UTC)Filion might work as CA if he can do the stunt work, but I don't really see him as that athletic.
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:59 am (UTC)Considering how dreadful the 90s Avengers film was, it's probably a blessing.
Although - could you see it working if they rebooted the TV series?
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:25 am (UTC)They mean the Capt America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk (sometimes), Giant Man (think that's the name), Wasp, untold number of other characters one.
Marvel super-hero team, not the British one.
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-15 08:33 am (UTC)Emma Peel / cathy Gale / Tara King possibles:
Carey Mulligan
Georgia Moffett
Sophia Myles.
In fact, after Saturday, I'd say Sophie Okenedo would make an excellent Mrs Peel.
I'd cast myself as Mother. Failing that, Mike McShane, Phill Jupitus... Philip Glenister?
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Date: 2010-04-15 09:03 am (UTC)Sally Sparrow
Jenny
Madame de Pompadour
Liz Ten...
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Date: 2010-04-15 10:43 am (UTC)Possibly Bill Bailey as Mother? (actually I think the bad movie cast Mother very well, and Uma wasn't a bad idea, if only she'd been more Kill Bill-ish in it) or Peter Firth (Harry Pierce on Spooks)
Trying to think of a good person to play Steed is actually much harder ... Tony Head is ok I suppose, but somehow doesn't make me want to shout "yes". Most of the people I can think of would make a better bad guy than Steed (e.g. John Simm, Simon Pegg, Rupert Penry-Jones (Adam Carter in Spooks)) or are too old or too young. It needs someone with the charisma of Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee, and very few people spring to mind that have that sparkle that don't also come across as far too lightweight or inappropriate. (Lightweight but charismatic people *not* suitable including Jonathan Ross, Richard Hammond, Dale Winton, Graham Norton, Bruce Forsyth, Jack Davenport, John Barrowman, Michael Ball etc. (grin!))
If they did a "younger Avengers", I could just about accept David Tennant or Orlando Bloom.
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Date: 2010-04-15 11:12 am (UTC)Can you imagine Eddie Izzard giving it a go? ... hmmm, can't decide!
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Date: 2010-04-15 12:48 pm (UTC)http://xkcd.com/311/
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Date: 2010-04-15 05:53 pm (UTC)Weirdly I think I've seen that action movie that was 30 seconds exposition followed by a 90 minute action scene. That totally forgettable terminator movie. (Or either of the two most recent ones actually.)
If only they'd had Summer in them. I might have liked them then.
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Date: 2010-04-15 06:25 pm (UTC)Yes, they were that interchangable IMHO.
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Date: 2010-04-16 10:11 am (UTC)Red leather indeed.
In all honesty, I find myself curiously uninvolved with the notion of Whedon helming the Avengers to the big screen. For me he's beginning to have the aura of 'Been there, done that.'
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Date: 2010-04-16 10:16 am (UTC)