Thor Movie Casting
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Off TopicChris Hemsworth as Thor... I've seen a preview shot of him as Thor and he looks pretty cool.
Natalie Portman as Jane Foster... I can see this. She's a phenomenal actress when she has a good script to go off of.
Anthony Hopkins as Odin... Another stellar actor. I hope he'll do the part justice. I suspect he will.
Rene Russo as Frigga... I haven't seen her in a lot, but she seems like a decent enough actress and I doubt Frigga will get much screen time.
Tom Hiddleston as Loki... This guy was born to play this role, at least visually. The guy can give such a sinister/mischievous look.
Jaimie Alexander as Sif... Hot mama! She's enough of a looker to play the part, but can she act? I don't recall having seen her in anything before.
Ray Stevenson as Volstagg... I imagine he'll have to wear a fat suit for the role. Should be interesting.
Joshua Dallas as Fandral... Yeah, they needed a good looking guy for this role and they got one. I've never seen this guy act to my knowledge, though.
Tadanobu Asano as Hogunn the Grimm... Now I'm not sure what Hogun's exact story is, but I've read a lot of comics and despite his outfit looking vaguely like a Mongolian's getup, I never thought of him as an Asian guy. More on this in a moment.
Idris Elba as Heimdall... This grates on me. I'm sorry... I am not a racist person (and it's really sad that in this day and age I even have to make that disclaimer) and I'm sure the guy is an amazing actor, but this is a movie about -Norse Gods-. To cast a black guy in the role of one of said gods is as ridiculous as casting a white guy as one of the gods in a movie about an African pantheon.
Now I'm not trying to stir anything up here... I just want my (I feel valid) point to be made. Casting Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury in the Iron Man movie... was I upset about that? Sure, but not because they cast a black guy. I was upset because it showed that they were mixing Ultimate and 616 Marvel for the movies, and I don't care for the Ultimate titles. I'm honestly surprised but thrilled that Thor in the upcoming movie has his 616 hammer instead of that (imo) goofy looking axe the Ultimate version has. Now when they cast Micheal Clark Duncan as the Kingpin, I was a bit irked. I know they would have had a tough time finding a white guy as huge and imposing as Duncan and I think Duncan's an -amazing- actor, but the fact is that they changed the identity of a fairly iconic character from the comics by changing his ethnicity. Heck, I was even pissed when they cast a white girl as Jubilee in the old Generation X TV movie as opposed to a Chinese-American girl, so it goes both ways. This just seems to be the most ridiculous casting choice yet and I do wonder if the choice was made for PC reasons.
Anyhoo, maybe it's just me. Again, I'm not trying to stir up a political debate here, just voicing my view on the matter. Debate if you will, but try and remain civil. My main point was to show folks who they've cast for the movie, which is looking like it will be very cool.
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Punstarr on Saturday, May 1, 2010
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-John Wayne once played Genghis Khan.
-Keanu Reeves played the Buddha.
-Hell, David Karradine beat out Bruce Lee of all people for his role in Kung Fu.
-The lead in Dragonball Z was a white dude.
- THe leads in Prince of Persia are white folks.
- Nearly the whole cast of Last Airbender is white, gotta wonder what happend there.
-The main charater from Earth Sea was suppose to have 'red/brown/ skin, but some how Iceman got the part.
-The movie 21 was suddenly about white people when it became a movie.
You get the point.
Which honestly shocks me...
Then again, how well known was that comic?
I apologize if that's how it seemed but such was not my intent. I was generalizing, not speaking about you.
Well to my knowledge Wanted the comic was as well known as say Watchmen . I mean its no spider-man or Superman but heck its only a graphic novel not ongoing ( all be it award winning).
Meh , You always gotta remember it is VERY hard to convey intent through text. Especially when you quoted me.
Which honestly shocks me...
Then again, how well known was that comic?
I apologize if that's how it seemed but such was not my intent. I was generalizing, not speaking about you.
That makes slightly more sense. Your opening post did not really convey that. I however must disagree to a extent. No one that I have talked to or seen on the net have had a problem with the fact that Angelina Jolie played a character who was originally black in the comics ( Fox in wanted) .
You say your just voicing your opinion but accuse me of thinking you a racist for voicing mine. That is some double standards.
I honestly have NEVER had a problem with changing a characters ethnicity. I think it ads a small amount of accessibility to films that may otherwise have little to no diversity. Maybe it is because I am Half White Half Black or maybe its just a sign of the times I mean we have a black president now.
My Good friend JonT (who is Caucasian) once said something that applied here when someone complained about marlon wayans being cast as ripcord and they said ripcord should be white.
"why cause thats how it was back in the day? I guess we should force black people to the back of the bus to cause thats what they did back in the day. Right?"
II'll give it to ya, race does matter....when it comes to main characters and villians. For a background character like Heimdall though, I think people are blowing it waaaaay out of proportion.
I don't think it's really gonna matter too much since Heimdall will likely not have very much screen time. Guess we'll just have to see how the movie turns out.
But my point is that there exists a double standard where if you changed the race of even a D list black character for a movie, you'd have groups up in arms suing the movie company. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander, but it's not. So ethnicity is not important, but because of that double standard, it really is. It's just that in these PC times, few people are willing to talk about it.
To me, maintaining -everything- about even secondary characters is important to make a good comic book movie. I'm not going to boycott a movie just because I don't agree with the casting, but I would have enjoyed Daredevil more if they had found someone who looked like the Kingpin from the comics who did as good a job acting as Duncan, just as I would have enjoyed Generation X more if Jubilee had been Chinese-American.
A better example would be someone like Jarvis, Foggy Nelson or Robbie Robertson. Yeah it'd be weird if they showed up on screen as a different race, but it wouldn't really effect anything.
I still don't see the big deal. Like MangaJoe said, the movie universe are always separate from the comics. They change things in just about every single Marvel movie, so whats the problem with this? People can accept the premise that a man can magically transform into a god that can summon lightning and weilds a flying hammer, but an Asgardian being black is just too far fetched?
He's got the physical stature and the acting chops, his race shouldn't matter.
How well do you think it would go over if they cast a white guy as Luke Cage in an Avengers movie?
Still think race doesn't matter?
Also, Samuel L. Jackson... I don't care if he's not 616 Nick Fury, HE'S SAMUEL LEROY JACKSON! I'm just going to point out that our previous live action Nick Fury was David Hasselhof. Also the movies aren't really that strict on what universe it is, I mean Stark isn't exactly getting kidnapped by Chinese terrorists so he can make a suit of armor for the Mandarin.
I say let the movies be their own universe, I mean they even have comics based solely in the movie universe right now.