While I personally like Sean Bean and Eva Green, they haven't got a lot of star power and that worries me, especially with Gal Gadot in the leading role, and Chris Pine playing Steve. So far the cast of Wonder Woman pales in comparison to Dr.Strange, Gambit, now Marvel's eyeing Rebecca Ferguson for Captain Marvel, she's an exceptional actress! They gotta bring in the big names
Not really. There's no real noticeable difference from what I can see. Just my opinion.
Perhaps Pine is big in America but here, people may know him by sight but very few can attach a name to him. The cast of Dr.Strange on the other hand has a lot of gravitas, they're not necessarily the most well-loved popular actors, but they've got prestige in spades.
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They aren't headliners, that's true, but they are well known faces and artists. Both have been in James Bond movies, Bean is pretty much the face of Game of Thrones despite being dead in most of it and he has Boromir to lean on. Green, being much younger doesn't have quite the breath of experience Bean has, but she's still touted as being highly competent.
As for the Marvel movies... what are you talking about exactly? The only name most people would recognize is that of Beneditct, and even that is for being the voice of Smaugh... because I don't think Americans have seen him play Sherlock Holmes with Martin Freeman (Bilbo) as Watson on BBC or manage to catch him on stage.
So by comparison... I'd say WW is doing much better than the next wave of Marvel in this regard. (That said, looking at GotG; Pratt was basically a bum living in his mates van before landing the job as Quill, Zaldana's most well known role was as a blue CGI alien, and the most well-known name in the main cast of the movie was playing a CGI tree that could only manage three words. But in spite all that lack of star-power, it did ok.)
Eva Green, Sean Bean, Chris Pine, they don't sell tickets and from what I've seen fans are yet to make peace with Gal Gadot, she's got a lot of convincing to do in Dawn of Justice. And before Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt was a fan favorite on Parks and Recreation and married to Anna Faris with whom he has a son, I doubt they were living in a van. They took a bit of a leap of faith on him and hit the jackpot. I can't see Gal Gadot emulate that feat though but I would love to be proven wrong. I hope she's the next Jennifer Lawrence.
As for Dr.Strange, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen and Rachel McAdams are not the most well-known names in the world but they've got a lot of gravitas, it makes you think Dr.Strange is not gonna be some dumb superhero film. A top-shelf, oscar-worthy group of actors such as this creates hype around the movie. Lots of people are excited about Dr.Strange and that makes me look forward to it.
i say go all out with this movie and start with her best villains. Ares and/or Circe can come back for the sequel. they are immortal after all. worked for Loki. i would hate for them to save her best villains for the sequel and have this end up like Green Lantern. instead of facing Sinestro in a climactic battle he fought an angry cloud of smog.
they could have Ares and Circe team up but of course Circe is ready to stab him in the back the second Wonder Woman is defeated.
i think just the fact that it's a Wonder Woman movie will be enough to generate buzz. she's right up there with Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man as the most iconic pop culture figures. quite a bit more recognizable than Dr. Strange and Gambit. characters that will rely more on the star power to bring in the non-comic book reading audience.
but having Linda Carter play Hippolyta is a must!
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She's big in the US and countries of the commonwealth but here, I'll go as far as to say Gambit is more well-known than Wonder Woman, at least amongst millennials, we grew up on the X-men animated show. I remember my cousin, who's a year younger than me, throw playing cards at my face. And everybody knows Channing Tatum, we fantasize about him as well. He would've made a fantastic Superman. Lea Seydoux, I saw her in the flesh, she shot a movie not far from here.