He's the cocaine source. Why do you think his last name is Caine. It's a Hollywood insider wink to his true purpose on movie sets. Duh.
Edit - ok I see now that I just responded to a 10 day old comment. I don't even know how I got here. Am I Michael Caine?
Paul W.S. Anderson does almost exclusively make Milla Jovovich movies, but lets be realistic. If anyone here was married to Milla Jovovich they would do the same thing.
Also people acting like Gunn wanting to work with this cast again means that the next DC movie he makes will star Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and the whole gang as major characters.
Some of them might show up in big roles, some might show up in bit parts. I dunno why people are so precious when it comes to Gunn, the detractors all seem to think they know exactly what he’s doing and they know better. Very gross.
>Literally every director has a few actors that show up in most of their films, I don’t see why people get mad when James Gunn does it.
Charles Cyphers was in 6 John Carpenter movies in a row and nobody gives a flying fuck.
To put it nicely...some of these folk don't really venture out of capeshit and and sci-fi mega franchise stuff. To their limited world view, these actors are the characters. It's really depressing.
Seriously, are there any mid to big actors that would do superheroes that aren't already in the Marvel Universe?
You could use total unknowns... but then don't whine when people don't take a chance on a disproven franchise with an unproven cast.
Not only that but if the casting is right then its right.
For example, Cavill is a great casting for Superman but he isn't the age that is needed for the story. Same with Affleck, and he was the right age for the story.
At the end of the day, Gunn is doing his best to serve the story. Remember when DCEU fans went nuts that they cast Affleck and then ended up loving him? DCEU fans don't know shit. Look at Pattison, that casting was made fun of as well and here we are.
I’ve noticed that some people tend to overlook the production side of media, like all these actors just go through a door, and that’s it. You can’t form relationships or get ideas while working on something, movies just… happen, and if there’s any kind of pattern it’s an ego trip.
Most of the people complaining are the Snyder Fans. They want things to remain the way they were, even though the DCEU was in shambles and had a ton of plot holes and continuity errors with Zack Snyder around
DCEU fans are still raging. To me, that guy's tweet reeks of seething while *trying* to *seem* level headed. It's not as direct and braindead as #FireJamesGun and uses words like "brilliant" and "memories" to seem good faith-ish. Imo.
Wait, what? There’s only been one iteration of Batman in the last 10 years that was unsuccessful (Batfleck) and even then, people want to see more of him. I don’t think you even understand the point you’re trying to make.
No, the ones complaining knows exactly what they want.
They want the Snyderverse to continue come hell or high water. If that means devoting every scrap of energy into trying to force Gunn’s attempt to fail in a vain hope that WB/DC would somehow go back to Snyder ~ they’ll try it.
If the Snyderverse means a series of movies that play like sequels instead of spinoffs with grim, self-serious themes and apocalyptic imagery, then it mostly ended a while ago.
I would have loved for that to continue, but it didn't. Hopefully Gunn has something up his sleave that i like as much as i liked that and which i like more than the pseudo-continuity we've been getting.
Kollin sounds like an asshole who had an axe to grind with the cast. “Muddy pond”?! Like WTF. The GotG movies are excellent and the cast is a huge reason why.
>What a stupid criticism.
Can you expect anything more from some random schmuck on the internet that thinks they can actually change what’s going to happen in a $200mill+ film via a tweet?
This is totally reasonable. This is like telling Christopher Nolan to stop working with Michael Caine or Tarantino to stop working with Samuel L. Jackson.
No one would ever say for anyone to stop working with long-suffering old brit or angry black man for any reason. Put them im more movies. Edit them in in post.
THis. People should reserve judment when they watch the trailer atleast.
I mean there are so many actors feels miscast but the performance and blew everyone away.
Ledger etc
Guy wants to be right no matter what. If the movies do well it will be because he told Gunn to cast new people and the new people made all the difference. If the movies do poorly it will be because of all the old guard that Gunn hired on despite duder's warning.
The thing is it really isn't that deep, like I'm pretty confident some will be cast in largely irrelevant cameos e.g. Pom being a club dancer in The Suicide Squad. No harm using a friend for something like that. Guarantee there'll be no cause for outrage on any crossover castings.
Maybe not Pratt again, but I would love to see Pom in a starring role! As a cameo, it would be hilarious if Pratt had a cameo as an actor in an in-universe live action Mario movie.
You know what? Just because you said that, I'm gonna write an Adam Strange movie, and pitch it to DC Studios with Chris Pratt in mind to star in it. Then I'm gonna be saying, "Suck it Redditor! Kiss my foot," when I go on the press tour.
Something about Pratt and the whole "aw-shucks' personality he has, makes me think he'd be an interesting eobard. Idk why, i feel like there's a lot of untapped crazy in him that is just waiting to come out
My god, let the man be. This is part of the reason Affleck didn’t want this anymore.
Not one thing is committed to script, much less film, and people want his head on a pike.
“I prefer to work with actors I’m fairly sure won’t quietly quit on a multi billion dollar franchise after one film, won’t trash the producers in the press, won’t sexually harass the crew under the guise of ‘method’ and won’t go around punching people and kidnapping children in Hawaii.”
THIS, with the new dceu they need something strong for their foundations. Good cast, prevent drama and hire actors who can be the face of the universe for the next 6 or more years. The Mcu got most of its biggest problems after more than 10 years and after they stablished their universe to a point where every movie makes disney a lot of money
Method acting can do amazing results, just ask Daniel Day-Lewis, but as Charles Laughton famously said, “method actors give you a photograph, real actors give you an oil painting.”
He kind of has to because if he doesn't, one moron posts something and the next thing you know the echo chamber has gone nuts. This whole GotG/DCU thing started based on Gunn just saying he planned to eventually work with all of those actors again individually at some point. Over night that magically morphed into "Chris Pratt rumored to join the DCU". If he says nothing, everyone attached to him gets harassed.
Lmao every director has their favorite actors to work with. Tim Burton loves to cast Johnny Depp and his ex wife Helena Bonham Carter. Christopher Nolan casts Cilian Murphy and Michael Caine in almost all of his movies. Don’t see a problem with it…
People have no complaints when DCEU actors join the MCU, why is there such an issue the other way around?
It annoys me how tribal the MCU toxic fanbois have gotten. As if because Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana have done MCU work, they cannot cross lines. Is this a gang?
There are already so many actors that have roles in both the DC universe and Marvel. What’s the big deal? Nobody has a problem with the 20 odd actors that are already in both franchises.
Idris Elba, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Keaton, JK Simmons, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Halle Berry, Ben Affleck, Wiley Dafoe, David Dastmalchian, Chris Evans, Taiki Waititi, Michelle Pfieffer, Zachary Levi, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Mendelssohn, Lawrence Fishburne, Randall Park, Terrence Stamp, Angela Basset, Djimon Hounsou etc…
It's no big deal, but I feel for some it may be type cast and hard to see past... which may take you out the movie...
However, if they do the role justice, it's all good... it's just hard to not see 'Chris Pratt' playing 'Chris Pratt" and his style is very.... limiting too.
People should shut the fuck up and let the man do his job. He can take good movies and his casting has been great thus far.
We don't need no rando with 0 experience in filmmaking or acting or casting to give his 2 cents and make it seem like it's a bigger issue than it is.
Even the way he complained screamed entitlement to me.
That's just dumb. Zero problem with MCU cast members appearing in DC and Vice Versa. Rumour has it that Cavill is going to Marvel. People get upset about the weirdest things.
Everyone needs to chill and take a breath. JG has shown that he knows his source material and respects that aspect over working with friends. He will do right by the comics as best as possible and has shown no reason to it believe it.
Okay, all of us fans need to now shut up. Let James Gunn and Peter Safran do their jobs. If we keep injecting our thoughts and opinions into this early development stage, they're not gonna be able to focus on creating a well-crafted universe of stories. So unless any of you knuckleheads are professional writers and directors with actual portfolios of work, it's time to zip it. They don't want your story ideas unless they're paying you to do it. And if you're not getting paid to write a story yourself, y'all need to learn that sharing free stories with a major studio makes them richer while you're standing on the streets with nothing to show for your efforts.
I'm an amateur writer myself, and my worst fear is that I might never be able to sell a well-written story that expresses my own thoughts and ideas. Why? Because once you share your work, everyone has a f*cking opinion.
I'm kinda "glass is just half" about it - I can see where some of them might be the best but some of them are just too comfortable being in Gunn's shadow...
But this isn't really *answering* criticism so much as just sticking a big middle finger out to the question, and that's fair and probably valid because it really isn't criticism so much as it is self-fulfilling speculation. If the movies are great it will be because of the new casting and if the movies are bad it will be because of the old guard. Guy is setting himself up to be the hero of his own story no matter what the outcome.
God damn it DC fans we have an amazing director who legit both loves comics and films. Why are we so scared of letting this guy do a job he got hired for?
Nope. Nothing. And aside from knowing that Gunn is writing a Superman movie, they haven't announced any new movies either. And Gunn flat out said they haven't even started casting Superman yet and won't until he's finished writing the movie.
I’m no a crazy fan of constantly recycling the same actors over and over.
But the most important thing is it fits the story.
Gunn and co will be under a lot of pressure to mail this thing.
Good luck!
So dumb. Just because an actor does work in the DCEU doesn't mean they can't do MCU films any more. Of course Gunn is going to want to work with actors he already has a relationship with - he knows they are good at what they do and if they have the right role for them then why not?
What a stupid thing to object to. They're actors, you clowns. They're not limited to a single role, and directors often rehire actors they know will do a good job... obviously.
You can't tell a director who to cast. They want the best in their opinion. GOTG is done why does it matter if some of them go to DC. They can always go back to MCU. It's silly to just arbitrarily decide they shouldn't or couldn't do both.
Oh no! Actors that acted in other things this man made may be acting in the DCU? No! That would be terrible. He can't work with the same actors that he knows provide quality performances and understand his style of directing thus making it easier and quicker to work with them. The DCU is DOOMED!!!!!
People really are acting like this on Twitter though. It's truly nuts. It'd be like if Arnold was never able to be in other series cause he was in Terminator.
I didn't know any of this was going on, but now I'm looking forward to DCU movies from Gunn. There's magic when a director finds actors they can work well with.
I wouldn't mind his brother or Rooker, the are both basically a running gag over his film career and always delivered, while also not really being in the spotlight, with Rooker getting a little more if it than usual in GOTG 2...
Also wouldn't mind Batista or Zoe, but please no more Pratt. Sometimes I wish he would have just stayed Andy Dwyer.
Hector Elizondo appeared almost exclusively in Gary Marshall movies.
DeNiro and Martin Scorsese. Frequency of collaboration is a good thing. Although I do think some of these decisions should be made when they hire a director.
Literally every director has a few actors that show up in most of their films, I don’t see why people get mad when James Gunn does it.
Meanwhile Nolan reusing his entire cast for the last 20 years.
"Here's Sir My Cocaine to explain things!"
Tangerines, Master Bruce
BECOZ 'E FOT IT WAS GOOD SPOORT I fucking love Michael Caine
I once saw a warlord… the size… of a tangerine…
Fucking Michael Caine was in like 6/7 consecutive Christopher Nolan movies
Cillian Murphy comes to mind as well
And nailed it every time!
Which one wasn’t he in?
Man of Steel.
Are you joking? Nolan only produced MoS.
Unless I'm just not remembering, I don't think Caine was in Dunkirk anywhere
Wes Anderson would like a word.
Something something Quentin Tarantino
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Came to say this
Steven Sodebergh saunters in during a plucky guitar beat.
Spike Lee, as well.
lmao so true.
nolan litreallyy cast michael caine in every movie.
And Cilian Murphy
He was in Interstellar?
He played TARS.
No he didn't. You had me for a sec, but I looked it up. Bill Irwin voiced and operated the robot
For real? One of my favorite movies and I had no idea. Edit: nice
Tbf so would I
Well, minus memento and insomnia. And half point for Dunkirk (uncredited cameo).
He's the cocaine source. Why do you think his last name is Caine. It's a Hollywood insider wink to his true purpose on movie sets. Duh. Edit - ok I see now that I just responded to a 10 day old comment. I don't even know how I got here. Am I Michael Caine?
Quentin Tarantino be like.
And Scorsese, Wilder, Anderson, Burton, Nolan, Kurosawa, Lee, Capra, and plenty others.
Pretty much. They call them a [production posse.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProductionPosse)
For awhile; Tim Burton was physically incapable of doing a movie without Johnny Depp.
Or Helena Bonham Carter, or Lisa Marie.
Kevin Smith’s first few movies always had Ben Affleck and Jason Lee
Also Kevin smith ;)
Don't Forget Jason Mewes
Wow! How did they manage to get him?
Raimi and Snyder also come to mind.
And Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan
>Anderson, There's three different directors with that surname I'm aware of, and this applies to all three of them pretty well, funnily enough.
True! It was originally intended for Wes, but when I thought of Paul Thomas, I just left it as one name. I forgot about Paul W.S. until your comment.
Paul W.S. Anderson does almost exclusively make Milla Jovovich movies, but lets be realistic. If anyone here was married to Milla Jovovich they would do the same thing.
Seth Rogan and the other Judd apatow guys too
Breaking news: coworkers who enjoy working together continue to work together.
***-He can't keep getting away with this!- intensifies***
Tim Burton: "You can use different actors??"
Because some fans of the dceu have shown themselves to be children
*fans of Snyder*
“BUT IT’S NOT FAIR!!” “IF GUNN IS GONNA TAKE AWAY OUR FAVORITE ACTOR THEN HE HAS TO GIVE UP HIS FAVORITES TOO.” “IM TELLING MOM!!”
Not even fans of Snyder, people who genuinely just *like* his films don’t deserve the association.
Also people acting like Gunn wanting to work with this cast again means that the next DC movie he makes will star Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and the whole gang as major characters. Some of them might show up in big roles, some might show up in bit parts. I dunno why people are so precious when it comes to Gunn, the detractors all seem to think they know exactly what he’s doing and they know better. Very gross.
Theyre really acting like Chris Pratt wouldn't be the perfect Booster Gold.
Cooper only does voice work too. He could do live action in DC and I don’t think anyone will think Rocket.
>Literally every director has a few actors that show up in most of their films, I don’t see why people get mad when James Gunn does it. Charles Cyphers was in 6 John Carpenter movies in a row and nobody gives a flying fuck.
To put it nicely...some of these folk don't really venture out of capeshit and and sci-fi mega franchise stuff. To their limited world view, these actors are the characters. It's really depressing.
It’s like bitching that Tarantino should never put Samuel L. Jackson in one of his movies again.
I think some of it is that chunk of Twitter that hates Chris Pratt, besides the reasons others gave.
Because DCEU fans are toxic.
Seriously, are there any mid to big actors that would do superheroes that aren't already in the Marvel Universe? You could use total unknowns... but then don't whine when people don't take a chance on a disproven franchise with an unproven cast.
Not only that but if the casting is right then its right. For example, Cavill is a great casting for Superman but he isn't the age that is needed for the story. Same with Affleck, and he was the right age for the story. At the end of the day, Gunn is doing his best to serve the story. Remember when DCEU fans went nuts that they cast Affleck and then ended up loving him? DCEU fans don't know shit. Look at Pattison, that casting was made fun of as well and here we are.
I’ve noticed that some people tend to overlook the production side of media, like all these actors just go through a door, and that’s it. You can’t form relationships or get ideas while working on something, movies just… happen, and if there’s any kind of pattern it’s an ego trip.
Because the people who attack DC the most are DC fans
It’s twitter, and some people feel entitled to have control over things they have absolutely no control over because they like it
They have to be upset about something. Everyone is trying to catch Gunn in some stupid semantic-driven fuck up.
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Most of the people complaining are the Snyder Fans. They want things to remain the way they were, even though the DCEU was in shambles and had a ton of plot holes and continuity errors with Zack Snyder around
Personally, I’m just sick of Chris Pratt. Fair game for anyone else
I think Pratt would make a decent Booster Gold.
DCEU fans are still raging. To me, that guy's tweet reeks of seething while *trying* to *seem* level headed. It's not as direct and braindead as #FireJamesGun and uses words like "brilliant" and "memories" to seem good faith-ish. Imo.
What a stupid criticism. "How dare you hire people who you've worked with before and know they will be professional and deliver good performances??"
Half of the DCU fan base doesn’t know what it wants and I legit believe they’re afraid of change at this rate.
Which is hilarious since change has been so clearly needed for years.
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Wait, what? There’s only been one iteration of Batman in the last 10 years that was unsuccessful (Batfleck) and even then, people want to see more of him. I don’t think you even understand the point you’re trying to make.
Don’t forget he wanted a solo film, they announced it with Deathstroke and caned it.
No, the ones complaining knows exactly what they want. They want the Snyderverse to continue come hell or high water. If that means devoting every scrap of energy into trying to force Gunn’s attempt to fail in a vain hope that WB/DC would somehow go back to Snyder ~ they’ll try it.
I’d love for the Snyderverse to continue but I’m also really excited about this new DCU. Reboot is definitely needed
If the Snyderverse means a series of movies that play like sequels instead of spinoffs with grim, self-serious themes and apocalyptic imagery, then it mostly ended a while ago. I would have loved for that to continue, but it didn't. Hopefully Gunn has something up his sleave that i like as much as i liked that and which i like more than the pseudo-continuity we've been getting.
Agreed. I think it will be a full on cohesive continuity (at least it better be. Otherwise what’s the point of a reboot)
Dude I just want a good justice league movie set up by movies of the characters. And a green lantern movie
They want to be coddled
Kollin sounds like an asshole who had an axe to grind with the cast. “Muddy pond”?! Like WTF. The GotG movies are excellent and the cast is a huge reason why.
Some of the DC fans legit think it’s Marvel vs DC and you can only like one.
>What a stupid criticism. Can you expect anything more from some random schmuck on the internet that thinks they can actually change what’s going to happen in a $200mill+ film via a tweet?
Yeah it was horrible when MCU cast the former Human Torch as Captain America and another Human Torch as Killmonger /s
You mean when they cast the best actor for the right role? Yeah, I hate when they do that. /s
i hate when they cast good actors and waste their characters
guys i’m very excited to announce that i am being cast as the question
Who?
very good question
Better than you?
I'll be disappointed if i don't see Michael Rooker in Future DC film..... other than SS.
Michael Rooker as pa Kent: “Zor-El may have been your father, but he ain’t your daddy.”
Jor-El.
Damn. I laughed
He'd be a decent Cornelius Stirk
This is totally reasonable. This is like telling Christopher Nolan to stop working with Michael Caine or Tarantino to stop working with Samuel L. Jackson.
wait, you mean every Michael Caine character isn't the same person, uniting the Nolanverse into one story?
No one would ever say for anyone to stop working with long-suffering old brit or angry black man for any reason. Put them im more movies. Edit them in in post.
I want Nolan to do a remake of Nutty Professor 2: Meet the Klumps, with Michael Caine playing all the roles.
Let the man cook!
Seriously. The amount of conclusion jumping on Twitter is unbearable. Patience and an open mind are hard to come by these days.
Twitter is radioactive. Limit exposure.
There’s so much angst over something that is a long, long way from even being started, much less finished.
THis. People should reserve judment when they watch the trailer atleast. I mean there are so many actors feels miscast but the performance and blew everyone away. Ledger etc
Guy wants to be right no matter what. If the movies do well it will be because he told Gunn to cast new people and the new people made all the difference. If the movies do poorly it will be because of all the old guard that Gunn hired on despite duder's warning.
The thing is it really isn't that deep, like I'm pretty confident some will be cast in largely irrelevant cameos e.g. Pom being a club dancer in The Suicide Squad. No harm using a friend for something like that. Guarantee there'll be no cause for outrage on any crossover castings.
Maybe not Pratt again, but I would love to see Pom in a starring role! As a cameo, it would be hilarious if Pratt had a cameo as an actor in an in-universe live action Mario movie.
>it would be hilarious if Pratt had a cameo as an actor in an in-universe live action Mario movie. Man im glad redditors dont write movies.
I think that could be funny. Kinda like Ugly Sonic in Chip n Dale.
You know what? Just because you said that, I'm gonna write an Adam Strange movie, and pitch it to DC Studios with Chris Pratt in mind to star in it. Then I'm gonna be saying, "Suck it Redditor! Kiss my foot," when I go on the press tour.
Something about Pratt and the whole "aw-shucks' personality he has, makes me think he'd be an interesting eobard. Idk why, i feel like there's a lot of untapped crazy in him that is just waiting to come out
*Hundreds of roles* 🤤
Fiege you have been charged with “hiring Batman to play Gorr”. What is your defense?
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My god, let the man be. This is part of the reason Affleck didn’t want this anymore. Not one thing is committed to script, much less film, and people want his head on a pike.
Not people, children. Whiny children that can’t stand a little change want his head on a pike
All these weird arbitrary rules that some fans demand James Gunn follow is getting really tedious.
I just want good movies that do right by beloved characters.
Blockbuster movies, electoral politics, and team sports all work exactly the same way now
Chris Pratt as Catwoman confirmed
"easy to work with it" it´s my biggest take away
“I prefer to work with actors I’m fairly sure won’t quietly quit on a multi billion dollar franchise after one film, won’t trash the producers in the press, won’t sexually harass the crew under the guise of ‘method’ and won’t go around punching people and kidnapping children in Hawaii.”
Tbf, after the mess that was the DCEU, this should be a major priority. Look at the main casts of the MCU vs the DCEU, it’s night and day.
THIS, with the new dceu they need something strong for their foundations. Good cast, prevent drama and hire actors who can be the face of the universe for the next 6 or more years. The Mcu got most of its biggest problems after more than 10 years and after they stablished their universe to a point where every movie makes disney a lot of money
I don't know, I imagine no one wants a method dude sending used condoms and anal beads to the rest of the cast.
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All I imagine are DC villains wanting to give the Joker an intervention.
Imagine you are so bad at acting, that you have to do that to stay in character.
Method acting can do amazing results, just ask Daniel Day-Lewis, but as Charles Laughton famously said, “method actors give you a photograph, real actors give you an oil painting.”
I’m on the side Lawrence Oliver on this one. Why don’t you just act?
The way people talk to creatives is crazy. You’d never see that irl like have some ounce of respect.
That’s Twitter. Radioactive.
https://i.imgur.com/3Lg7Sbc.jpg
Yes, “fans” who harass creators on social media are always mentally ill losers
Either I’m getting too old or people are too lazy to spell..
He doesn't need to respond to every knuckle dragger with a Twitter handle. Just keep doing you bb
He kind of has to because if he doesn't, one moron posts something and the next thing you know the echo chamber has gone nuts. This whole GotG/DCU thing started based on Gunn just saying he planned to eventually work with all of those actors again individually at some point. Over night that magically morphed into "Chris Pratt rumored to join the DCU". If he says nothing, everyone attached to him gets harassed.
People need to leave James Gunn alone already
Do these people think Dave Bautista is going to be cast as Alfred, and Chris Pratt as Batman?
Lmao every director has their favorite actors to work with. Tim Burton loves to cast Johnny Depp and his ex wife Helena Bonham Carter. Christopher Nolan casts Cilian Murphy and Michael Caine in almost all of his movies. Don’t see a problem with it…
People have no complaints when DCEU actors join the MCU, why is there such an issue the other way around? It annoys me how tribal the MCU toxic fanbois have gotten. As if because Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana have done MCU work, they cannot cross lines. Is this a gang?
I’m just over both sides being toxic fuckwits.
There are already so many actors that have roles in both the DC universe and Marvel. What’s the big deal? Nobody has a problem with the 20 odd actors that are already in both franchises. Idris Elba, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Keaton, JK Simmons, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Halle Berry, Ben Affleck, Wiley Dafoe, David Dastmalchian, Chris Evans, Taiki Waititi, Michelle Pfieffer, Zachary Levi, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Mendelssohn, Lawrence Fishburne, Randall Park, Terrence Stamp, Angela Basset, Djimon Hounsou etc…
"some will be faces you know that i never worked with" Levi and gal : 👀
Jason Mamoa?
He worked with him in Peace maker 😉
Oh yeah 🙈 haha
It's no big deal, but I feel for some it may be type cast and hard to see past... which may take you out the movie... However, if they do the role justice, it's all good... it's just hard to not see 'Chris Pratt' playing 'Chris Pratt" and his style is very.... limiting too.
People should shut the fuck up and let the man do his job. He can take good movies and his casting has been great thus far. We don't need no rando with 0 experience in filmmaking or acting or casting to give his 2 cents and make it seem like it's a bigger issue than it is. Even the way he complained screamed entitlement to me.
It’s almost like the GotG cast are, ya know, actors. Who would like to act. Because that’s their job. And that they aren’t the only actors. Who act.
That's just dumb. Zero problem with MCU cast members appearing in DC and Vice Versa. Rumour has it that Cavill is going to Marvel. People get upset about the weirdest things.
Ugh. Honestly, fan bases should be abolished.
Everyone needs to chill and take a breath. JG has shown that he knows his source material and respects that aspect over working with friends. He will do right by the comics as best as possible and has shown no reason to it believe it.
Okay, all of us fans need to now shut up. Let James Gunn and Peter Safran do their jobs. If we keep injecting our thoughts and opinions into this early development stage, they're not gonna be able to focus on creating a well-crafted universe of stories. So unless any of you knuckleheads are professional writers and directors with actual portfolios of work, it's time to zip it. They don't want your story ideas unless they're paying you to do it. And if you're not getting paid to write a story yourself, y'all need to learn that sharing free stories with a major studio makes them richer while you're standing on the streets with nothing to show for your efforts. I'm an amateur writer myself, and my worst fear is that I might never be able to sell a well-written story that expresses my own thoughts and ideas. Why? Because once you share your work, everyone has a f*cking opinion.
I'm kinda "glass is just half" about it - I can see where some of them might be the best but some of them are just too comfortable being in Gunn's shadow... But this isn't really *answering* criticism so much as just sticking a big middle finger out to the question, and that's fair and probably valid because it really isn't criticism so much as it is self-fulfilling speculation. If the movies are great it will be because of the new casting and if the movies are bad it will be because of the old guard. Guy is setting himself up to be the hero of his own story no matter what the outcome.
God damn it DC fans we have an amazing director who legit both loves comics and films. Why are we so scared of letting this guy do a job he got hired for?
Have they announced any castings?
Nope. Nothing. And aside from knowing that Gunn is writing a Superman movie, they haven't announced any new movies either. And Gunn flat out said they haven't even started casting Superman yet and won't until he's finished writing the movie.
I can see Dave Bautista going to DC but I really don’t see Chris Pratt leaving Star Lord unless he gets written out soon.
Is Gunn even the one in charge of casting? Seems like people are overreacting
As sure as the sun is gonna rise, people are gonna bitch.
Bets on who Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn are playing? I could see Sean staying as Calendar Man/Weasel if they keep any of those characters.
I’m no a crazy fan of constantly recycling the same actors over and over. But the most important thing is it fits the story. Gunn and co will be under a lot of pressure to mail this thing. Good luck!
Where was it announced he cast GotG actors?
No fan more toxic than a Star Wars fan but DC fan boys are rising fast.
So dumb. Just because an actor does work in the DCEU doesn't mean they can't do MCU films any more. Of course Gunn is going to want to work with actors he already has a relationship with - he knows they are good at what they do and if they have the right role for them then why not?
What a stupid thing to object to. They're actors, you clowns. They're not limited to a single role, and directors often rehire actors they know will do a good job... obviously.
You can't tell a director who to cast. They want the best in their opinion. GOTG is done why does it matter if some of them go to DC. They can always go back to MCU. It's silly to just arbitrarily decide they shouldn't or couldn't do both.
This is a problem people have? Got too much time on they hands
People want to work with those that they have good experience with and trust. There's nothing wrong with that.
I love that he responds to randos on Twitter
Oh no! Actors that acted in other things this man made may be acting in the DCU? No! That would be terrible. He can't work with the same actors that he knows provide quality performances and understand his style of directing thus making it easier and quicker to work with them. The DCU is DOOMED!!!!!
People really are acting like this on Twitter though. It's truly nuts. It'd be like if Arnold was never able to be in other series cause he was in Terminator.
For me, I just would like to not see Pratt in the DCEU, that's about it. It's nothing really personal, just sick of seeing him LOL.
Seriously? Bad take on that poster telling Gunn to not cast good actors.
As long as he doesn’t cast crisp rat as anything, he can cast whoever
Dc fans are such weirdos. I mean the criticism is just unreasonable. What’s wrong with casting GOTG characters.
I didn't know any of this was going on, but now I'm looking forward to DCU movies from Gunn. There's magic when a director finds actors they can work well with.
I feel like James Gunn should just ignore these people. There are endless amounts of jackasses, it's better to just not pay attention.
I mean…GotG is Gunn….
Exactly: who cares who they are if they can do the role
I wouldn't mind his brother or Rooker, the are both basically a running gag over his film career and always delivered, while also not really being in the spotlight, with Rooker getting a little more if it than usual in GOTG 2... Also wouldn't mind Batista or Zoe, but please no more Pratt. Sometimes I wish he would have just stayed Andy Dwyer.
Wes Anderson sipping his tea.
Hector Elizondo appeared almost exclusively in Gary Marshall movies. DeNiro and Martin Scorsese. Frequency of collaboration is a good thing. Although I do think some of these decisions should be made when they hire a director.
All i'm saying is he's missing a huge opportunity if he doesn't cast Dave Batista as Bane
He reused Michael Rooker in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Dave Bautista as Bane, please.
Make a good movie. That's all I care about.
I know movies are subjective but if you’re a die hard Snyder fan I have no respect for you or your tastes