Marvel Actors Who Auditioned For Other MCU Roles

At this point, it's almost as if every big-name Hollywood actor is tied to a specific comic book superhero or villain in the movies. The luckiest of them gets a role in the MCU, which for all intents and purposes is king of a hill. When it comes to superhero movies, certain

actors

were lucky enough to land the role of a lifetime, while

other

s had to deal with being told no and probably ventured to DC or something, so there is a small group of

actors

who

auditioned

for a role in the MCU. and he just didn't get the role they were auditioning for.

I went through a phase of just making my own tapes and saving them to my own tapes. Yes, that's right, the MCU we know and love today could have been very different if Disney had done something. Different casting options, many actors that you are familiar with seeing in Marvel movies now tried to play a different role. Can you imagine what things would have been like if Chadwick Boseman was someone

other

than T'Challa or if another of the Avengers played the role of the strapped Captain America because we're about to go over a whole bunch of different Marvel actors who tried out for different

roles

.

Chris Pratt as Captain America is hard to imagine now because everyone knows that Chris Evans is Captain America and Chris Pratt. - star-lord, but those weren't the original plans. Pratt originally

auditioned

for the role of Captain America several years before landing the role of Peter Quill again. This was a while before Guardians of the Galaxy finally came to fruition while Pratt was still only starting out with Parks and Recreation, he had yet to appear in any dramatic

roles

, such as Moneyball or Zero Dark Thirty. He didn't get the role, but he made enough of an impression to remain in the mind of casting director Sarah Finn, who recommended I pitched him to Guardians director James Gunn for the role of Star-Lord.

It's a good thing things worked out this way because Pratt's fun personality matched Peter Quill's character much better, and Chris Evans' clean, healthy image matched American hero Steve perfectly. Rogers Chadwick Boseman as Drax the Destroyer, this would certainly have altered the character a bit, wouldn't it? We all know Chadwick Boseman Astatula the Black Panther, but did you know he originally auditioned for a different role? Yes, he first tried out for the part of Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy, of course, the role ended up going to Dave Bautista, who did a wonderful job with a character.

Bozeman is a great actor and I'm not so sure his style would have fit well with the silly limit. The comedic tone of the Guardians movie and Drax's character, Sulu Bozeman, was probably upset when he didn't get the role, as he had just finished a lead role in 42 as Jackie Robinson. In the end everything went well. get to perform drag but ended up in the MCU anyway with only a lead role in a blockbuster movie, we can't help but wonder what the character of Drax would have been like if Bozeman got the role, it would certainly be strange, but far from it. so strange if dave bautista played shella lupita nyong'o as nebula while we're on the topic of black panther actors almost playing other roles, did you know that lupita nyong'o originally auditioned for the role of nebula, sheesh, which would be the first guardians of the galaxy movie? have been very different, that's right, young O originally tried to join the Marvel Universe long before her debut in Black Panther as Nakia, she had just finished her future Oscar-winning role in 12 Years a Slave and was looking for her next project, finally did.

I didn't get the role because it went to Karen Gillan, but it worked out for all parties because Nyong'o was one of the highlights of the black panther Karen Gillan as Sharon Carter talking about nebula, that's not even the role Karen Gillan originally auditioned for her first attempt to join the MCU was Sharon Carter in Captain America, the Winter Soldier, who she had met with Marvel and auditioned to be the captain's new love interest at the time she was finishing her time on Doctor Who as the character Amy Pond eventually played with Gillan. I didn't get the role since it went to Emily VanCamp, in retrospect it worked better for Karen Gillan.

Also dealing with Marvel's casting process. Karen Gillan wanted to play Sharon Carter, but she was given Nebula instead. Lupita Nyong'o wanted to play Nebula, so she took her place. They gave Nakia, is it just a never-ending process of moving someone into the next available role? Tom Hiddleston as Thor. This is probably the most uncomfortable one to think about on the entire list. Tom Hiddleston is famous for playing the role of Loki. Thor's mischievous and sometimes downright evil little brother, he plays such an iconic role that it's almost uncomfortable to think of Hiddleston playing the role of Thor - that's certainly what almost happened when Hiddleston went to audition for the movie he was trying out.

Marvel did some screen tests with him and even had him sporting blonde hair and holding the famous hammer Mjolnir. Of course, they eventually cast Chris Hemsworth in the role, but Hiddleston left such a lasting impression that they cast him as Loki instead. since then. He has proven to be a fan favorite and one of the most integral parts of the MCU. Sebastian Stan as Captain America. This is another one that is sickening to visualize as we all know and love Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier. He is Captain America's best friend, but. Things would have been very different if he were Captain America when it came time to audition for Captain America, The First Avenger.

Stan wanted the role. Casting director Sarah Finn felt that she was bringing too much darkness to the installment that was simply not right for the character. Still, she was impressed with what she saw and suggested that Stan play the role of Bucky Barnes in his next Captain America installment and the rest was history, indeed, with Bucky Barnes set to appear in the upcoming Falcon in the Winter Soldier show. In Disney Plus character Stan will actually spend more time in the MCU than Captain America, this also shows how important and useful it is for Marvel to plan their movies so far in advance this way they can keep an eye out for potential talent for future roles. who have not yet been cast Anthony Mackie as Mandarin talking about Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the role of Wilson has been played by Anthony Mackie while the character is not one of the original Avengers and does not have his own standalone film to talk about She is still one of the most important characters in the MCU, she is certainly one of the most iconic heroes, but did you know that Anthony Mackie was originally intended to play a bad guy?

His first audition happened before he was cast as Falcon when he screamed, tested for the role of the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, the role would ultimately go to Ben Kingsley, which really makes me wonder what the casting will be like, speaking of Falcon, that role almost it went to someone completely different too while Anthony Mackie was auditioning. to play the Mandarin, it was Michael B Jordan who was auditioning to play the Falcon, luckily he didn't get the role and would join the MCU as the iconic role of Erik, the assassin assassin and the Black Panther, while Michael B Jordan would have probably been Great in the role of Falcon too, it was probably the best, in fact it wasn't even Jordan's first time appearing in the Marvel Universe in 2015, he played the Human Torch in Fantastic Four, a movie that was a historic flop while was.

A Marvel movie didn't exist within the Marvel Cinematic Universe we know today and it's a good thing people barely remember that Fantastic Four movie. Sam Rockwell as Iron Man. Sam Rockwell is a fantastic actor, he's funny, talented and always delivers. Whatever role he plays, he said there is simply no conceivable way he would have been as perfect for the role of Tony Stark as Robert Downey Jr. If it simply wasn't possible, RDJ was perfect for the role. Pat Rockwell was the lead role and was the one who started the MCU in 2008. There's just no telling where the franchise would be today.

However, Jon Favreau likes what he saw with Rockwell and ended up using him as Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2. Justin Hammer's role was intended to be a Tony Stark wannabe with a very similar attitude, only you misunderstand who he wanted. be Star-Lord. This one is interesting because there were several big ones. -name the actors in the running to play Star-lord before the role where two Pratts, in fact, three of the actors they were considering ended up in the MCU playing different roles first. Lee Pace auditioned to play Peter Quill, but he ended up being cast instead. the film only to play the film's antagonist, Ronan, the accuser, imagines going to audition for a role and ending up being cast as the character's opposition.

It's funny how things work, isn't it? He wasn't the only Marvel actor to audition for the role. The role of Michael Rosenbaum also auditioned. Rosenbaum is a close personal friend of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, so he had a leg up in the competition - of course, the role would eventually go to Chris Pratt, but Gunn still found a way to use his friend. at the casting. Him to play Martin X in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2. Zachary Levi was another actor who tried out for the role of Star-Lord. He didn't get the role, but was eventually chosen to replace Josh Dallas in the role of Fandral in 2013's Thor: The Dark World, Levi would get his lead role in a superhero movie starring Shazam in 2019, other actors who were seriously considered for the role of Peter Quill they included Joel Edgerton, Jim Sturgess, Jack Hudson and Eddie Redmayne, all that to say.

Chris Pratt Jake Gyllenhaal as Doctor Strange Jake Gyllenhaal has wanted to be part of the MCU for quite some time and it makes sense for him to be a bona fide actor with some serious acting chops, so why shouldn't he get a featured role in the movie more important? franchise of all time seemingly every big-name celebrity Under the Sun plays a corresponding superhero, it almost made no sense that the likeable and popular Jake Gyllenhaal didn't have one, he was reportedly very close to playing the role of dr. It's strange, of course, that the role would eventually go to Benedict Cumberbatch, who did an absolutely wonderful job.

Gyllenhaal is a great actor, but there's no telling if and how we could top Cumberbatch's masterful performance, and we don't feel too bad for Jakey Boy either, he's done. get his MCU part playing the role of Mysterio in Spider-Man Far From Home, whether or not we'll see him in that role on the big screen is still up in the air, it's crazy to think how drastically different the MCU could have been. With only a couple of different casting options, we're glad things worked out the way they did, but which of these entries would you like to actually happen?

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