10 Perfect Fantasy Castings For Upcoming Comic Book Movies

Zac Efron’s career seemed to have ended with the High School Musical franchise. Now though, he’s a huge star that Marvel will surely be interested in.

His immediate choice of roles after bursting into the scene left a lot to be desired, with The Life And Death Of Charlie St. Cloud and 17 Again doing nothing to shake off the flash in the pan tag.

However, since then the likes of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile, The Paper Boy, The Greatest Showman and Bad Neighbors have all demonstrated his talent and longevity. He doesn’t have the biggest range in Hollywood, but plenty of actors have made a living off less.

He’s not going to be winning Academy Awards any time soon, but he’s very, very good at the sort of roles he gets.

Johnny Storm requires him to be handsome, cocky, and love attention; it’s like it was made for Efron.

For what it’s worth, The Thing hasn’t made the cut here. Marvel might go for bulky prosthetics again (in which case giving it back to Michael Chiklis sounds good), or go mocap and voice over a la Groot and Rocket, meaning it could really be anyone.