Josh Brolin, we have Marvel movie and we need a villain, you available?

Cafe Society
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So, in an oddish coincidence there are 2 Marvel superhero movies coming out and Josh Brolin is cast as the bad guy in both. I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (April 27)

Cable in Deadpool 2 (May 18)

It’s not the same character, and the movies aren’t currently* in the same MCU, but geez. Maybe we’ve reached saturation with all these Marvel movies. We’re running out of actors!

Your thoughts?

*Now that Disney has bought Fox Entertainment, they’re in the same studio. So, it could happen someday.

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Captain America was already Johnny Storm. Folks seem to have handled it okay.

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So was Killmonger.

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Brolin was also Jonah Hex.

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So, we are running out of actors.

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Considering there are only about 6 British actors and two of them are playing Americans in the MCU, probably.

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Ugh, don’t get me started on the casting community’s fetish for non-American’s playing Americans.

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Is it possible he could fight Green Lantern at some point?

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Yeah, the UK’s actor-shuffling is about an order of magnitude worse than Marvel’s problems.

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And a young agent K in MIB 3, and Dwight in the second Sin City. Heck, he probably has the record for appearing as a main character in different movie/comic universes.

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Is Cable a bad guy? I know he is the antagonist but won’t they hug it out by the end?

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Pump the hate brake Thanos!

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Infinity War will be the sixteenth comic book based movie Chris Evans has appeared in.

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I meant number of different comic book universes, not total number of movies. Brolin has been/will be in MCU, X-Men, Jonah Hex, MIB, and Sin City for 5. Chris Evans has more total movies, but it’s all MCU & Fox’s Fantastic Four.

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You forgot Snowpiercer, The Losers, and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World.

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IIRC, Push was also its own comic-book thing about superpowered people doing stuff before they put Chris Evans up on the big screen in the lead role.

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Evans was also in TMNT. So sixteen movies based on seven different comic books.

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Cap isn’t making it past Avengers 4 and rumours have it that Affleck wants out of the Batman role…

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Slightly off-topic but I am really impressed by this guy’s career. I think I saw him in one movie in the mid-80s and then did not see him in anything else for almost 20 years and now he is in everything.

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Goonies!