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Speculation - Captain Marvel, Mystique and Spider-Man
Posted by Labels: Captain Marvel, Jennifer Lawrence, Mystique, Spider-Man
Today in a little flourish I blogged about three casting stories, Captain Marvel, Mystique and Spider-Man; I received an E-Mail asking what I thought about these three stories. So here is some speculation on my part.
Gigi Edgley as Captain Marvel, the likelihood of this being true is not very high. I like Gigi as an actress, I think she has the right personality and attitude to make it work, she looks the part and no one is going to be comparing it to her previous role. Yet with Katheryn Winnick offering to duel Katee Sackhoff for the role and nearly every other blonde in Hollywood suggested as a potential its hard to see Gigi getting the part. With all that said it is still odd the Gigi is suddenly making the rounds to increase her name recognition.
As an aside Jim Hensen Studios is in the scripting stage of a Farscape Movie and the leads from the TV show have been turning up more frequently, are they pulling a Ryan Reynolds and attempting to get a film made?
Jennifer Lawrence announced she is hanging up the body paint after X-Men: Apocalypse and leaving Mystique behind. What about the announced Mystique standalone film, what about the next X-Men film...
Jennifer Lawrence is not the first actor to announce they are leaving an iconic role, Hugh Jackman, Robert Downey Jr, Harrison Ford, George Clooney, William Shatner and a whole long list have been there done that. Yet most actors in Iconic roles re-sign with a big pay raise.
Lets be honest Jennifer Lawrence can now command $10 a film easily, she was paid $250,000 for X-Men: First Class, $500,000 for X-Men: Days of Future Past and $750,000 for X-Men: Apocalypse (not including bonuses), with her initial contract done suggesting she wants out puts her in the driver seat. There is a catch though Jennifer Lawrence is actually the second actor to play the part, Rebecca Romijn has also played the part and with dozens of other under 30 year old actresses looking for an iconic role, Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have as much leverage as RDJ does.
The other side of the coin is also very true, how many actors have to spend 10 hours a day in a makeup chair getting body paint applied or removed. Coupled with this are a number of horror stories from X-Men: First Class in which to add insult to injury not only did she spend 10 hours in a make chair they didn't actually use her in the days filming. One of many reasons Matthew Vaughn was disliked.
My take, I have hard time imagining that with the right incentive, dollar figure, Jennifer Lawrence would turn down the part, I am reminded of the words of Alan Rickman "You don't make these movies because they are Shakespeare, you make these movies so you can [afford to] make Shakespeare." I am probably paraphrasing a little, but it gets the point across.
Final some thought on the young 16 year-old Mateus Ward in having multiple auditions for the part of Peter Parker. Here is a rumor I hope is not true, Mateus Ward just doesn't fit my perception of Peter Parker, he looks two damn young. In all honesty my 10 year-old son looks older than he does in many of his "recent" photo ops. That's a problem. I also think it is a problem for Sony, who rumor has it would prefer to go with Miles Morales.
The latest round of rumors suggest that Marvel has meet with several actors in the 16-17 year old range. I would believe that short list includes Zackary Gordon (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Chandler Riggs (The Walking dead) and... well the other actor that the right age is Jaden Smith.
The casting of Peter Parker (assuming they go that way) will tell us a lot about who is in charge of the Sony Marvel Collaboration.
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