Here’s Who Nope’s Brandon Perea Wants To Play In The MCU

In an interview with Remezcla published concurrently with the premiere of “Nope,” Brandon Perea revealed that he hopes the next step in his acting career is a Marvel Cinematic Universe role. After Remezcla shared this interview on Twitter, Perea quote tweeted it on his own account and added that he would like to portray Sam Alexander, known in Marvel comics as the superhero Nova.

As chronicled on the Marvel website, Sam is the second person to don the Nova mantle, after another human named Richard Rider. Nova is part of a larger intergalactic crimefighting team called the Nova Corps, so when Sam steps into the role, be becomes a member of the team, which spans multiple planets throughout the universe.

Plans for a Nova project, in fact, are currently underway — in March, Deadline reported that Marvel Studios hired Sabir Pirzada as a writer, though virtually no other details about its development have been announced. Theoretically, then, this MCU “Nova” could feature Richard Rider as its protagonist. In either case, Perea seems to have publicly thrown his hat in the ring to play Sam Alexander, whether that’s in the currently in-development “Nova” project, or a future “Nova” that follows Marvel Comics canon and introduces him as the second incarnation of the intergalactic superhero.

In an interview with Remezcla published concurrently with the premiere of “Nope,” Brandon Perea revealed that he hopes the next step in his acting career is a Marvel Cinematic Universe role. After Remezcla shared this interview on Twitter, Perea quote tweeted it on his own account and added that he would like to portray Sam Alexander, known in Marvel comics as the superhero Nova.

As chronicled on the Marvel website, Sam is the second person to don the Nova mantle, after another human named Richard Rider. Nova is part of a larger intergalactic crimefighting team called the Nova Corps, so when Sam steps into the role, be becomes a member of the team, which spans multiple planets throughout the universe.

Plans for a Nova project, in fact, are currently underway — in March, Deadline reported that Marvel Studios hired Sabir Pirzada as a writer, though virtually no other details about its development have been announced. Theoretically, then, this MCU “Nova” could feature Richard Rider as its protagonist. In either case, Perea seems to have publicly thrown his hat in the ring to play Sam Alexander, whether that’s in the currently in-development “Nova” project, or a future “Nova” that follows Marvel Comics canon and introduces him as the second incarnation of the intergalactic superhero.