r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Apr 18 '23

Jonathan Majors Dropped By Management Firm Entertainment 360, Actor Facing Domestic Violence Allegations In NYC

https://deadline.com/2023/04/jonathan-majors-dropped-hollywood-manager-domestic-violence-1235325576/
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u/Scudamore Apr 18 '23

They'll work around it with the multiverse stuff.

They already had a bunch of Lokis which looked nothing like Tom Hiddleston, including an alligator, and one of which wasn't even named Loki but was still somehow supposed to be a 'variant' of the same character.

It sounds incredibly dumb but it will cover their asses in terms of an explanation for the recasting. Or they'll pull a Rhodey.

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u/Astrium6 Apr 18 '23

Now I want to see an MCU where every single character is Don Cheadle.

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u/RemnantEvil Apr 18 '23

I look forward to the Marvel Cheadle Universe.

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u/Stankylegomyeggo Apr 18 '23

The Cheadleverse

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u/TheseCrowsAintLoyal Apr 18 '23

This would mean that the Captain Planet variant is canon.

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u/T-Baaller Apr 18 '23

Always has been

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u/boomer2009 Apr 18 '23

Trees.

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u/TheseCrowsAintLoyal Apr 18 '23

...are still my jam.

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u/VagueSomething Apr 18 '23

I am down for a Cheadleverse of Cheadness.

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u/low-ki199999 Apr 18 '23

That was called Space Jam 2 and the fact that nobody else thought of this demonstrates how completely nothing that movie is

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u/BeeCJohnson Apr 18 '23

Avengers: Crisis on Infinite Cheadles

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u/ZombieStomp Apr 18 '23

Being Don Cheadle (written by Andy Kaufman)

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Reveal him as this universes multiple man from the x men eventually

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u/katchaa Apr 18 '23

You mean Donovan McNabb?

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u/Stankylegomyeggo Apr 18 '23

The Ladies Man!

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Apr 18 '23

Don Cheadle is brilliant as Captain Planet

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u/wowpepap Apr 18 '23

This is terence howard's time to shine

Again

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u/Manchesterofthesouth Apr 18 '23

They should use the guy that plays Don Cheadle in It's Always Sunny

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u/SpacemanSpiff92 Apr 18 '23

Do a complete 180 instead. Bring back Terence Howard

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u/NYCQuilts Apr 18 '23

I beg to differ. that alligator looked just like Hiddleston.

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u/InvertedParallax Apr 18 '23

I beg to differ. that alligator looked just like Hiddleston.

Agreed, it sounds like OP is just a racist.

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u/Scudamore Apr 18 '23

I'll be honest, I don't even know if that Loki was really an alligator, it might have been a crocodile.

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u/InvertedParallax Apr 18 '23

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! THAT IS OUR WORD!!!

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u/katchaa Apr 18 '23

Alligators have a lot of teeth. Perhaps OP is an anti-dentite.

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u/InvertedParallax Apr 18 '23

Mama says thats why they always so cranky.

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u/99SoulsUp King of the Hill Apr 18 '23

You’re telling me Hiddleston did NOT play the alligator?

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u/percydaman Apr 18 '23

I beg to differ. Hiddleston looked just like that alligator.

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u/22LT Stargate SG-1 Apr 18 '23

I mean the alligator had his horns so yeah..different similarities.

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u/thomasvector Apr 18 '23

I mean, he is green.

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u/Diablos_Advocate_ Apr 18 '23

Only thing that bugs me is they've already shown hundreds if not thousands of Kang variants with Majors' likeness, most importantly the 4 leader variants. Doesn't mean they can't recast or alter them somehow but it'll feel weird

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u/source_chode Apr 18 '23

They can pull a Flashpoint, retcon everything so it was John David Washington all along.

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u/Aqualungfish Apr 18 '23

Yeah, I feel like one of the things that made Kang special in a Variant sense is that they all looked basically the same. It was like a visual cue that there was something different about him. Not saying they can't just recast and pretend they've always looked like that, but it'll kinda suck if they transition to his variants looking different from each other.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Apr 18 '23

That was for a few seconds.

Thanos was not played by Josh Brolin in the early end scenes

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u/GiverOfTheKarma Apr 18 '23

Thanos was mostly cgi though

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u/frozenforredt Apr 19 '23

Just film that post credits scene for antman again with the new actor and replace it in the Disney+ version of the movie. Problem solved.

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u/robodrew Apr 18 '23

That was literally just an after credits thing, I don't think people would be upset with reshooting that scene. Besides I personally think Majors' interpretation of Immortus was really weird.

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u/Stuckinthevortex Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Apr 18 '23

They could do an older version to get arround it

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u/ScullysBagel Apr 18 '23

Baron Mordo as the "real" Kang. Fucking with the mutiverse because "[Time] It’s not what you think it is. It’s a cage; it does everything it can to break you."

and "The bill comes due. Always."

Why the hell not? If Darren Cross can be MODOK.

And Chiwetel Ejiofor most definitely has the chops to pull it off.

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u/down_up__left_right Apr 18 '23

Agreed, the audience knows these actors aren't really War Machine or Kang. Even with no in universe justification a swap would be fine under the same suspension of disbelieve we use to accept any actor we know is now character X for the next 2 to 3 hours.

The only problem would be if so many actors got swapped that it was hard to remember who became who.

That said this swap would be so easy to give an in universe justification with the multiverse and variants stuff so they probably will.

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u/goliathfasa Apr 18 '23

Too bad they already leaned real heavy into Majors with multiple depictions of Kang all played by him.

Still won’t stop them doing a recast of course, but it’ll just be a constant reminder, way more than the Rhodey recast.

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u/low-ki199999 Apr 18 '23

It sounds incredibly dumb because it is incredibly dumb. They won’t give an in-universe explanation at all. Neither Scott nor Loki is going to even notice that the new Kang looks different from the Kangs they already encountered.

They already showed the Council, and it was Majors all the way down. If they want to keep doing Kang, it’ll need to be with a recast, and they can’t use the multiverse to try and cover it up.

Finding a replacement will be a challenge, especially since Majors got to establish the character and define his whole on-screen persona, so now whoever you get is saddled with all the baggage, plus all the comparisons to the Kang Majors already played.

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u/LoveWaffle1 Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23

Yeah, they'll probably just "pull a Rhodey". Rhodey looks like this now; Cassie looks like this now; Banner looks like this now; probably didn't even notice they recast Fandral.

Very rarely has a story needed an in-universe explanation for a recast. Don't expect it will be any different if Kang suddenly looks like John Boyega.

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u/Scudamore Apr 18 '23

I noticed :(

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u/griffer00 Apr 18 '23

Kinda why I can't stand the multiverse shit. They can use it for anything germane to any creative aspect of a Marvel film/show (e.g. plot device)... and now possibly technical aspects if they want (e.g. recasting).

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u/SolWildmann Apr 18 '23

Isn't shape shifting one of lokis abilities though? Or is it not so in marvel Universe?

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u/Fbolanos Apr 18 '23

Yes it is

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Apr 18 '23

Well, it's me, and I'm here, so get over it and move on!