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Margot was great but obviously not Oscar worthy. Her best roles remain I, Tonya and Wolf of Wall Street.

Josh Hartnett would be perfect for the lead

A prequel set during the construction of Jurassic Park or Jurassic World would be badass AF. Imagine following a team of hunters tasked with capturing the loose Dinos all over the island?

This film might have been even better than it already was had the lead been Antonio Banderas and the villain played by young Jude Law. That would have been magnetic.

Phoenix was utterly brilliant as well. And the script quite good. And numerous other leads would have succeeded there. Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas were eyed and both would have been tremendous. Bruce Willis was at top of him game back then and would have been perfect. Jude Law begged for the part of Commodus but they opted for JP, Law would have been tremendous too. I have always felt Gladiator was similar to Batman Begins in that is a perfect "prestige popcorn" blockbuster with strong enough themes and developed enough characters to be a prestige film but its at its core an obvious popcorn crowd pleaser.

Everyone trying to be the new Josh Hartnett with fame. Shawn Mendes, Jacob Elordi, whoever this guy is..

Read page 1. Whoever at WB opted to gamble on Barbie and Wonka IP deserves a raise.

Wonka 2 will be a big film.

The lasting impact of this film is significant. Whatever Nolan or Murphy do for follow up is going to be very noteworthy.

Canning Batgirl was no doubt about further protecting IP that was already clearly going in the wrong direction. They would have further diluted the brand and for the worse. I wanted to return Burton's Gotham as much as anyone but that is what it is. They can't give the mouse that cookie. Multiple versions of these characters at once is insane and worked for 1 film (NWH). Wouldn't be surprised at all if it does make it's way out down the line after a new DC era has been established and there will far less emotional reactions from fans.

Funny, one usually reaches the latter by producing the former, they're very much intertwined.

It isn't "defending" Zaslav to note that he took over an epic dumpster fire and was going to have to make extremely tough choices for the company to right itself, it is being factual. 100x more common than any unfair "defending" is the "unreasonable hating" by outsiders who seem to have a primitive grasp of how a company of that size functions.

People rooting for Zaslav or Iger want WBD or Disney to stay (and thrive) as large media company, probably because the people doing the rooting are fans of the content the companies make. 🙄 Obviously people can be fans of companies whose product they like and wish for them to successful, what a strange thing to otherwise insinuate. @Scubasteve716 is 100% on point.

Superman x Top Gun crossover. *Superman flies by jet* Miles Teller: what the fuck was that !?! 😮

Cruise as Jor-El.

Guy will be in Superman Legacy

Zac Efron was better than Murphy, shame if he isn't even nominated.

I think the public will see this as a soft relaunch of Marvel. It is an obvious opportunity for them to course correct.

Eh the larger issue in general is they were mostly terrible actors. The ones with any hints of depth or range (Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Hartnett) all got serious opportunities, while others got franchise film type stuff ala Freddie Prinze Jr got Scooby Doo, Bloom got Pirates, Ashton Kutcher got Punkd, Hayden Christensen got Star Wars etc. Revisionist history does show it did not have to be this way. I think we all know that had Ledger survived, he would probably still be a huge star to this day. Had Hartnett wanted to be Nolan's Batman, he would have been, and no doubt his A-list status would have last many years longer than it did. Paul Walker wasn't really a draw outside of F&F, but who knows. Not going down this rabbit LOL. Heath showed the most charisma but Hartnett showed the most range of all of them early on. His characters in Faculty, Virgin Suicides, O, Harbor, Black Hawk Down, the sex comedy etc are all very different, and he is generally pretty good in all of them. He would have been more than capable as Nolan's Batman and would probably still be A list to this day had he accepted it. My opinion wont change, I have never seen a Brad Pitt performance that I don't think Hartnett could have matched.

The young actor group from the turn of the millennium is just notoriously bad, and the ones who didn't go the superhero route but still have major careers are few and far between. Yes, we still have Jake Gyllenhaal acting in major stuff, but the best actor of the ground passed away in 2008 (Heath Ledger), Joaquin Phoenix went off the deep end for a while but has somewhat leveled ooutthe other big talent Josh Hartnett abandoned mainstream Hollywood. Paul Walker also passed away unfortunately. The Ashton Kutcher/Orlando Bloom/Jesse Bradfords/Freddie Prinze Jr/Matthew Lillard/Wes Bentley/Ryan Phillippe/Billy Cudrup/Sean William Scott/Chris Klein/James Franco all went absolutely nowhere with mainstream film. The 1990s biggest stars if Leo, Pitt, Cruise, Smith etc are all still Hollywoods biggest names.

Wonka 2 is an obviously high profile tent pole for sure

Chris Nolan proves his genius yet again, discovering Glenn Powell in The Dark Knight Rises. 😎 But serious, Sweeney is 100x hotter than he is. She is...blessed.

Blunt is great with a very one-note character here. It's hardly Oscar stuff though, she is barely in the movie.

It's been this way for some time, tbh. See Joaquin Phoenix as Joker, Margot Robbie as Barbie, The Rock as Black Adam, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga as country singers, etc. Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn may legitimately be the most impactful comic book casting since Nicholson as Joker way back when. She is going to bring an insane amount of hype that already high profile film.

Over the years, a lot of them have actually been confirmed. Hartnett has been confirmed by a ton of people including Ratner, who also confirmed Bomer. Fraser, Paul Walker, and Ashton Kutcher all confirmed it themselves. There is a screenshot of Cavill's test out there. The reporting in general is pretty accurate. Anthony Hopkins was signed as Jor-el throughout, Brett Ratner and the studio both viewed Josh Hartnett as their first choice in 2002, which was the 2nd time he was offered the role (the first being for BvS earlier in 2002), he rejects, the studio moved on Ashton Kutcher and Paul Walker, also reject it, Ratner and co. again approach Hartnett with the infamous mega offer, he rejects, they do not want to offer the same contract to Kutcher or Walker, studio pushed Brendan Fraser while Ratner wants Matt Bomer, can't agree, Ratner quits, McG comes in, casts Robert Downey Jr as Lex Luthor and zeros in on Henry Cavill and Jared Padalecki for the lead role. Film falls apart shortly thereafter.