I’m not sure why.
Maybe I’ve watched too many sci-fi movies that wanted to be Star Wars
and make huge money on limited budgets but I always feel like there isn’t much
interest in bringing in talented actors or actresses to play these roles. Getting Patrick Stewart to play Professor X
seemed so impossible in the pre-2000 world that I lived in. Comic books were not mainstream and the idea
that major actors would want to play these roles seemed like a pipe dream. Superman and Batman seemed the exception to
the rule just because they were so iconic that they had jumped over to the
silver screen and be half-heartedly accepted.
Then Blade came out and showed that movies based on Marvel
comic books could make money. Suddenly,
Fox announced that they were doing an X-Men movie and filled it with a mix of
established talent and unknown actors. After
they ran into the ground after three movies, they rebooted the franchise with a
prequel. Getting James McAvoy and
Michael Fassbender was spectacular and awesome but the best casting may have
been getting Jennifer Lawrence to play Mystique. Jennifer Lawrence was just coming off being
nominated for an academy award for “Winter’s Bone” but was still unknown to
most of the movie audience. That did not
last long though as “X-Men: First Class” and then especially “Hunger Games”
shot her into the spotlight and the top of the entertainment hot list. Since then, she has done a great job
switching between the two huge franchises and doing quality Oscar-nominated
work for “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle”
One has to wonder what will happen when Hunger Games ends
this year and X-Men: Apocalypse comes out next year. I don’t know how many X-Men movies she is
signed to and whether or not she would keep doing them or leave to do more
Oscar-bait films.
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