FanCasting

Giancarlo Esposito is no stranger to action movie franchises. Plus, his contributions to the superhero series The Boys don't hurt when weighing the possibility of him possibly taking over an X-Men fan-casting. Social media speculations and discussions are the promised fantasy land of all missed opportunities and whatnot for dream-casting hits and trials. One of these popular fan-castings on X (formerly Twitter) once suggested The Gentlemen star helming Professor X's monumental seat in the X-Men universe, with Denzel…

Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage Oh, Chris Pratt, what are we going to do with you? Rightly or wrongly, the actor seems to be a candidate for every franchise under the sun, and those he joins get promptly Pratt-ed up. At some point, you simply don’t see Peter Quill, Owen Grady, Emmet Brickowski, or Mario on the screen anymore; you just see Pratt messing up the plan to kill Thanos, father velociraptors, foil the plans of Will Ferrell, and trek across the Mushroom Kingdom. And if one particular fan-caster has…

Photo by Dave J Hogan/Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images Since James Gunn announced his plans for the rebooted DCU Phase One (subtitled Gods and Monsters), fans have been especially looking forward to new Batman content. Enter: Batman: The Brave and the Bold, a live-action movie that shares a name with the beloved animated series that ran from 2008-2011. As soon as news of the film dropped, it led to plenty of excited lovers of Bruce Wayne to do some fan-casting online, and it seems that in the eyes of the fandom, an…

Image via Nintendo With a rousing voice cast, one of the most engaging, colorful canons in the entirety of fiction, and a limit beyond the sky as far as fan service potential goes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie didn’t need something as silly as a plot to dominate the box office this past weekend. With $377 million in the bank against a $100 million production budget, Nintendo and Illumination will be eating well for a hot minute yet. Illumination apparently foresaw such an outcome as well, having been bold enough…

Image via JC Olivera / Stringer / Getty Images / Warner Bros Despite multiple delays and seriously questionable actions of late by its leading actor Ezra Miller, early reception from industry insiders lucky enough to have caught a screening of The Flash has been nothing short of glowing.  When you’ve got the likes of James Gunn and Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav heaping on praise, pragmatists may consider it to be self-serving. When you get the seemingly objective view from an action movie veteran such as Tom…

Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2022 MARVEL. While Ant-man and The Wasp: Quantumania had more than its fair share of disappointments for Marvel fans, perhaps no one felt it more poignantly than the folks in the middle of the MCU/The Good Place fandom Venn diagram, who were hoping with all their hearts that their fan-casting of Chidi actor William Jackson Harper as Fantastic Four leader Mister Fantastic would become a reality. Harper was one of the most popular choices by fans to play Mister Fantastic, aka Reed…

After Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ended Marvel’s 2022 slate as well as the MCU’s fourth phase with a bang, all eyes are now turning to 2023 and beyond. We’re getting Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania in February, the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May, The Marvels a little later in the year, and a couple of Disney Plus shows to boot. However, there’s less fun to be found in knowing exactly what is on the horizon, and more in speculating what’s to come – and some rumors have surfaced about an inbound villain getting…

Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images / Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for BFI Elon Musk is doing a fantastic job of making himself into biopic fodder following his horrendous takeover of Twitter, and now the internet is fancasting who can play the beleaguered billionaire. To play someone like Musk, you need to be able to channel his deep, underlying hatred for the system, his astonishing ego, as well as his dark past built on apartheid mining. It’s such a tough role, and it’d require someone uber…

via 20th Century Fox There’s no point in even trying to pretend that Wolverine isn’t coming back to our screens sooner rather than later, even though it would definitely be for the best were the mutton-chopped mutant given an extended sabbatical from live-action. After all, stepping in to replace Hugh Jackman as the comic book icon is about as close to impossible as it gets, especially when he spent 17 years strapping on the claws in a myriad of X-Men sequels, spinoffs, and solo stories, before bowing out with…