Paramount/DC
One challenge presented by DC’s plan to expand and extend their cinematic universe is the issue of villains – alongside recasting old favourites we’ve seen in already (in the vein of Michael Shannon as General Zod, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Jared Leto as the Joker), Warner Bros and DC Entertainment will surely also be looking for new bad guys fans may not expect. Variation is the spice of life after all.
In order to keep audiences engaged, they’ll surely be searching for sinister characters from the comics that mainstream cinema hasn’t hosted yet. And, of course, this will present a whole new challenge of finding the actors capable of playing them.
This isn’t always an easy task, either.
While most thespians can turn in a psychopathic performance, how many of them could make us care about a huge cosmic entity with a silly name and elaborate superpowers,...
One challenge presented by DC’s plan to expand and extend their cinematic universe is the issue of villains – alongside recasting old favourites we’ve seen in already (in the vein of Michael Shannon as General Zod, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Jared Leto as the Joker), Warner Bros and DC Entertainment will surely also be looking for new bad guys fans may not expect. Variation is the spice of life after all.
In order to keep audiences engaged, they’ll surely be searching for sinister characters from the comics that mainstream cinema hasn’t hosted yet. And, of course, this will present a whole new challenge of finding the actors capable of playing them.
This isn’t always an easy task, either.
While most thespians can turn in a psychopathic performance, how many of them could make us care about a huge cosmic entity with a silly name and elaborate superpowers,...
- 12/19/2015
- by Rob Leane
- Obsessed with Film
A review of part 1 of "The Flash" crossover with "Arrow" coming up just as soon as my shirt's on fire... In a way, my favorite part of "Flash vs. Arrow" is something we didn't see: Barry and Oliver teaming up to take out the Rainbow Raider, as we cut from the end of their fight to the colorfully-named Roy G. Bivolo(*) being thrown into a Star Labs prison cell. Even with his creepier mind control powers for TV, the Raider has never been one of the more impressive members of Flash's Rogues Gallery(**), and his only purpose in this episode was to provide the thing we actually cared about, which was the title fight between our two heroes. (*) Giving a villain with rainbow powers a name that starts with "Roy G. Biv" seems pretty on the nose, but keep in mind that other DC villains' real names are Victor Fries...
- 12/3/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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