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That's great and all she'll be an excellent Ancient One, personally I thought she'd have made a great Clea. What's disappointing is this takes away a non-caucasian role in the movie.
When did Tommy Lee Jones become the Green Goblin?
I have mixed feelings about this Tilda Swinton thing.
On the one hand, she's a great actor, the MCU needs more prominent women, and the comics Ancient One is a blatant "Wise Old Asian Man On Top of a Mountain" stereotype. On the other hand, the MCU has even fewer prominent roles for Asians than it does for women, and there are ways to get around the worst of the cliches in the Ancient One's character, so to some extent this feels like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Also, Swinton would have made a kickass Nightmare.
Really curious to see how they handle Wong, now.
It helped that Dafoe is an actual goblin.
I dunno, I have difficulty getting too bent out of shape because a role that should have gone to this underrepresented group instead went to that underrepresented group.
God dammit
I'm starting to think Morgan was right about you, Dresden.
Ancient One probably dies at the end of the first act anyway when other bad guy super villain kills her with bending bullet magic waves.
Which got me thinking about how the 80's/90's Liefeld/Lee/McFarlane era stuff would fit into the MCU. I know they are making a Deadpool movie, but I'd like to see more pouches and impossibly large guns, so any interest in a Cable movie?
I mean, leaving aside any social issues, how the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch of all people is proof that Marvel has irrevocably fucked up is just beyond me.
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I admit, I have my reservations; in every interview I've ever seen with him, he just seems to take everything way too seriously to pull off Strange. Then again, I don't really think they can do a Strange movie at all, so... yeah.
But I was really amazed by how strongly negative the casting news was received there. I mean, it wasn't like everyone else was super-enthusiastic about it, but wow.
They must have really wanted Pedro Pascal.
I think he'll probably be fine, personally. He had great dramatic presence as Khaaaaaaaaaaaan, I'm guessing he can do Taco Sorcerer Supreme.
Well, yeah. That was mostly the reaction everywhere else: "He'll do fine, but it's a safe choice."
I didn't know I wanted this until I saw this post.
Holy hell that'd be amazing.
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Brooks would be a little TOO overwrought I think.
Like, love the guy but he goes hard and all in on this kind of shit and I think it'd go too far.
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Swinton will do fine as the Ancient One.
My biggest curiosity is who will play Death in Strange.
Also, I'm really hoping the upcoming Iron Fist will include a meaty part for probably the most prominent Asian Marvel character, Shang-Chi. I mean, you can't do an Iron Fist show without Danny's BFF, can you? (BFF besides Cage, that is)
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Internet law dictates that we bring up Eva Green in response to any mention of someone playing Death in the MCU.
I'd be pretty OK with that, as it turns out.
Thus it could be anything from this
to this
Or this
Or even this:
As for Death, Eva Green is definitely worth murdering half of the galaxy for. Jason Alexander works too, though. You know, either or.
The dude playing Black Panther might not be as recognizable as Cumberpatch and Rudd, but when you say he's the guy who was Jackie Robinson and James Brown they'll go "oh yeah, I remember those were movies that existed recently, the one with Harrison Ford's mustache falling off on camera, right?"
I'm pretty sure were they not already cast in the MCU, T'Challa would have been Elba or Cheadle.
Well for one, you aren't going to get any change in the underrepresentation if all you're doing is robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you actually want to address the issue, and take for granted that there are only so many roles to go around, then I'd say it's 100% a problem unless they're changing male or non-white roles as well. Companies still do this thing where they hire black females for one job just to fulfill their "quota".
I want the movie to crib the following line from Doctor Strange: The Oath, where the Doctor gets a bit peeved/flustered:
Great way to get the one f-bomb in a PG-13 movie.
alls Im sayin...
It's on Marvel Unlimited. Pretty much the only standalone Dr. Strange story that's on the service.
It isn't about fulfilling a quota, it's about giving characters who aren't defined by their caucasian ancestry a chance to be played by minorities because there's no reason they can't do it now. And the fact that the lead roles in the movies are still dominated by white men. As well as giving minorities a shot at big roles in their movies. Age of Ultron did this with Helen Cho, Asian actors are very rare in those sort of roles and they lost one to Tilda Swinton, presumably. By adding minorities to roles they're definitely adding representation to their movies. Samuel L. Jackson is a huge success as Nick Fury in the MCU.