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(Anonymous) 2014-05-28 01:12 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2014-05-28 03:06 am (UTC)(link)Marvel has already recast Hulk and Rhodey, though.
Neither Norton nor Howard was an iconic representation of his character, though; relatively few people watched The Incredible Hulk, and Rhodey didn't have a huge part in Iron Man 1. So Hulk and Rhodey are really not comparable to the other characters under discussion.
They want to expand their movies, not shrink them with each retiring actor.
It's not like the current actors are all leaving at once. As long as Marvel keeps to its two movies a year and, crucially, keeps adding interesting new characters to the MCU (as they've mostly been doing; Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 are the only exceptions so far), they'll keep expanding just fine.
They might put them on hold for some years but they will all come back with another actor.
Depending on what you mean by "some years," that might not be all that different from what I was saying. I don't think anyone is expecting Marvel to never recast Iron Man or Captain America or Black Widow or etc. But there's no rush; there are plenty of other characters and/or teams that Marvel could make films about in the near future.
An Iron Man film starring anyone other than RDJ that came out in the next five or so years would practically guarantee a disappointed audience, for whom RDJ is Iron Man. But if Marvel Studios put off making Iron Man 4 until 2020 or later--which they could easily do if they spent that time making GotG and Captain Marvel and Black Panther and etc. films--then I think the audience would be eager enough for new Iron Man that they'd be a lot more forgiving of a non-RDJ Tony Stark.
Oh, and something I should've mentioned in my previous comment: a really big difference between the MCU and the Spider-Man, Superman, etc. situations is that Marvel isn't planning to reboot its franchise anytime soon. Getting Henry Cavill to replace Brandon Routh as Superman is a much less fraught decision when the entire universe is being rebooted; in fact, it would feel really weird to reboot the universe but keep the same actor. It's not that roles can't be recast even if the universe remains the same, of course, but that's not the default the way it is with reboots.
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(Anonymous) 2014-05-28 07:27 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2014-05-28 08:15 am (UTC)(link)Which is why I said "2020 or later." 2020's the absolute earliest year I could see Iron Man 4 being a good decision; a longer wait would almost certainly be better.