Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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My dissatisfaction with the potential Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange news is multi-faceted: 1) the feeling that there have been too many Marvel movies with white dude leads already, 2) I'm still angry that there are no Black Widow move plans, 3) Benedict Cumberbatch certainly can do the role in his sleep, so as a choice, it feels kinda boring and predictable?, 4) my limited knowledge of Dr. Strange is that he's a brilliant, mysterious asshole, and I've seen Benedict Cumberbatch play this type of character so much recently that I don't feel compelled to see him do it in another franchise.
Thanks to PMM, now I need to add: 5) I want to see BC do a comedy.
I have the Cumberbatch fatigue. I think he's a fine, interesting actor, but I feel he is way overexposed at this point. I have a less intense but similar feelings about Jennifer Lawrence -- I like Lawrence A LOT yet someone invoked her name in Captain Marvel casting game and my first reaction was to groan.
I like Lawrence A LOT yet someone invoked her name in Captain Marvel casting game and my first reaction was to groan.
Katee Sackhoff all the way, bay-bee!
Well, as a whiner, I'm glad Black Widow doesn't get a movie. If it means she gets second billing in *all* those movies, maybe I'll regret my choices.
Considering Sherlock, I feel like I've seen Cumberbatch do comedy. What I need from him now is porn.
Need to know Carol Danvers casting. I'm not much of a Sackhoff fan, but I will support her for this.
I've seen the Cumberbatch fatigue described as "Cumberbacklash."
Jamie McKelvie suggested Emily Blunt, which is sort of a curveball, but I can see it.
Yvonne Strahovski is another name that comes up.
So Black Panther is supposed to be in Cap 3 and we see Cap's shield broken in the AoU trailer. I'm wondering if Steve will be asking T'challa to fix it.
Jennifer Morrison for Carol. I think she'd be awesome in the part.
I'm seeing other people speculating along the same lines I've been since the Civil War notion came out that it's going to involve the aftermath of both CA:TWS and whatever happens in AoU. Which, I'd be down with, honestly.
I mean, things are set up in such a way that they could totally wind up with a shirtless bear fight. (Look, that's not my only take away from that arc, OK? It's just the one I come back to.)
If we can't have Katee Sackhoff, I vote for Gwendolyn Christie.
I have strong feelings about the waifish superheroine casting habit.
I would imagine Marvel would want to cast Carol Danvers younger. Katee Sackhoff is 34 this year, so will be 38 when the movie comes out. For franchise potential, I think they'd want to go with someone in their mid to late 20's (early 30's at most at the time of the shooting). One could argue that RDJ was in his early 40's when the first Iron Man came out, but I doubt they'd be as flexible when they're dealing with their first headlining female superhero on big screen.