5. Casting, Casting, Casting
More so than other adaptations, the casting of the primary characters of a supers film is critical. When they adapt War & Peace into a movie will I care who plays Count Bezukhov? Will I care if they cast 50 Cent as Queequeg in the next Moby Dick? Hell no. Will I write my senator and close my head in my car door if they cast Zac Efron in any capacity? YES. Casting is paramount. If you cast well (Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Heath Ledger, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Reeve) magic happens. The audience is drawn into the story despite the unavoidable goofiness of the dialogue. If you don't get the right guy/girl, then you run the terrible risk of getting
this ... and
this ... and
this. In fact, if you don't have a Halle Berry ready for your part, then just don't make the movie. Wait 5, 10, 20 years until the right actor comes along rather than trample the hopes and dreams of obsessive males from 4 years old to 45. I again return back to
Thor. Chris Hemsworth is an Aussie and I remember watching him in the daily soapie pukefest,
Home and Away. He's not a hopeless actor, but don't cast an Aussie to do a bad British accent and hope that Americans won't notice. Plus, the guy was probably
170 pounds on TV and now he looks like Triple H's
kid brother ... (roids) I can sum it up in an even shorter point. Ghost Rider -
Nicholas Cage. Casting leads me to my next point:
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