I honestly think the number of new, viable movie-franchise level properties Marvel still has available isn’t that great. Between what Fox and Sony own, the stuff that they’ve put on TV/Netflix, I kind of think they’re going to have to recast the existing properties at some point.

I appreciate this, but let’s be honest, an Omega-level mutant is whatever Marvel wants it to be at the time. Storm has created planet-threatening storms. Magneto has shifted the Earth’s poles. Exodus is at least as powerful as the other psionics, Michael Pointer, Wanda if she was still a mutant, etc.

a sense of mayhem prevails as Trump’s staff find themselves unable to plan and are constantly playing defense

Which would seem anti-climactic after season 2.

She’s actually Andie McDowell’s daughter.

It’s total typecasting at this point (she’s been playing a witch since The Golden Compass ...), but Circe is the obvious choice. Or Selene as a New Mutants/X-Men villain.

To be optimistic, could that time frame be more about accommodating people’s schedules than a reflection on the amount of reshoots? So maybe Cavill is available now, but Momoa or Gadot isn’t until August, that kind of thing.

+1 Mallory Archer

If they go younger, I want to put in a vote for Margaret Qualley from The Leftovers and The Nice Guys and this crazy Spike Jonze commercial:

She sort of would have to play a preternatural character, wouldn’t she?

My only problem with Chopra is that she’s one of those actors who might be too good looking to play a mortal human being. Like, distractingly good looking.

Have Selina and Talia ever gone to war with each other? And if not, how is that possible?

And then those actions will be overturned decades later, even though no one really wants them to be.

Right? I think the Mummy might be fine, but I don’t get what advantage Universal thinks there is by announcing plans for a dozen movies instead of just letting them connect organically and build interest.

Also, he’s his own father, it’s kind of a trip.

Rock and Kevin Hart? Rogen and Franco?

I was about to say that Joe Johnston directed it, but then I realized you meant Benecio. And yeah, it’s not terrible by any means.

Building up characters like Sweeney and Laura, and not pairing Shadow with some of his better foils yet (like Sam) has really put him at a disadvantage.

Jesus definitely comes back

Given what we know about the rules of the world, it definitely seemed like he had way too much belief going for him to be truly dead.