The 30 Characters Who Are Already Cast For the DCU
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2023
- It’s been nearly a year since James Gunn’s announcement video regarding Gods and Monsters, the first chapter of the new DCU and in that time a surprisingly large amount of characters have already been cast even if the majority of those castings come from either Creature Commandos and Superman: Legacy, some of the chapters earliest projects. In this video I’ll be going over the 30+ characters and the 23 actors who are playing them who have been cast in the DCU.
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I think we really should appreciate how well James Gunn is handling things. Before him, we would hear all the time about DC projects being announced, then cancelled soon afterwards. Now that he is in charge, we already have a Creature Commandos show that is almost finished, a Superman movie that is due to start shooting very soon, a Swamp Thing movie that has already found its director, and, Gunn has announced recently that most of the DCU shows already have showrunners and writers. That much preparedness was pretty much unheard of before in the DC movies.
If he can keep John Cena, he could've kept Henry Cavill. Especially when Henry really wanted to portray a more positive version of the character but was stuck with edgy Superman instead.
@@EntertainMeTV Cavill didn't fit Gunn's vision for Superman, he has spoken time and again about it. Look, I'm not happy about it either, but DC fans need to stop dwelling on the past and focus on the future.
It can still be crap humor for most if these movies, with bear zero storyline like Suicide squad and Peacemaker
@EntertainMeTV cavill is 50 years old dude, I love him but do you really expect a 50 year old to look and stay young enough to be a superman early in his career? Especially since their definitely won't just be one superman movie and cavill will continue getting older.
@@drpepper2519 He's actually 40, but the point still stands.
Jan 2023: we got the slate
Dec 2023: 30+ castings, Creatures releasing in 2024, Superman films three months from now.
James’s definitely moving
James Gunn has a knack for making unknown characters well know. I am sure he will show these characters the justice they deserve!
like he did vigilante? lol he turns them into characters they arent
@@CalebByRamenVigilante is perfectly fine, sorry you wanted him to be an edge lord 😂
Considering James on multiple occasions has referred to Michael Rosenbaum as the best lex luthor, the movie is in good hands. Aaron Ashmore was fantastic as Jimmy too
Yup. I have 100% faith in James gunns vision for SURE.
Other than the Sean Gunn casting as Maxwell Lord I really like to love the castings. I do agree with your sentiment of the version they’re going for of Lord could help it. Really looking forward to Creature Commandos, Superman Legacy and Peacemaker S2 since it sounds like in Peacemaker they’ll establish what is carried over to the new DC Universe. DCs got so many great characters and stories to be adapted so I really hope this works.
I see Nicholas Hoult as a great Lex Luthor as a new version of Michael Rosenbaum's Lex from Smallville. Can't wait until Jason Mamoa's Lobo gets announced (c'mon, you all know it's coming). I am not surprised about Nathan Fillion as a green lantern, being that he's done it several times in animated movies. Years ago, he would have been the best Hal Jordan.
So far my favorite castings are David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Skyler Gisondo. Perfect casting for that trio
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@@treek10k bro Stfu. Not everyone grew up in a Christian household my guy. Go spread your gospel on other channels and not a video about Castings for DC characters.
@@wesstewart2677it's a bot
@@wesstewart2677He can spread it anywhere he wants
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I would love to see your interpretation of what a "mutant saga" for the mcu would look like
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@@treek10kyou're weird
Love the dramatic music change when we get to Lex
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I just need GREEN LANTERN to be done right.. That Universe has a lot of interesting stories to be told.
So true. Great way to explore the DC universe too
8:25 I hope Circe really is in all of these.
Her debut on Live Action as one of the main villains of a chapter/phase named “Gods and Monsters” would definitely fit.
I don’t know why Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner is such a stretch. His personality fits that role perfectly, and he’s kinda the de-facto voice actor for Hal Jordan in so many animated adaptations, so it’s a great way to let him play Green Lantern in live action without having an older Hal Jordan. Great video though, I love hearing your comprehensive input.
It's because of his age
The girl from the Witcher as Circe is perfect casting. James casting for this movie has been on point
Thanks bro for uploading today. I really needed this
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1:14 so basically the Superman actor would voice superman in a animated film that makes sense
I am so excited for all this
Jimmy Olsen was the spy on BvS movie. In the beginning of the movie. Gets killed.
Hope this goes well. I am a major DC fan, and have been wanting a sucessful DC Cinematic Universe like Marvel had. Green Lantern is my absolute favorite so I hope for a sucessful Movie/TV series about the Lantern mythos. Would be awesome!
10:26 Hawkgirl is a tier character
I can't wait to see her and James' developing relationship
The casting is so shockingly accurate, James Gunn is truly a mastermind at his craft
I wonder why Warner didn’t hire him for the rest of DC universe in the first place. Far better than how Snyder laid it out.
Yeah...Sean Gunn looks exactly like Maxwell Lord... What a fanboy...
@@Smido83ah yes maxwell lord. A character that everyone absolutely knows and loves and definitely a vital character in the dc unvierse💀🤓🤓🤓
You didnt even mention the lois, clark or lex casting
@@johnleeka3282 Why should I mention them? They (at least to my knowledge) didnt get the role because of nepotism. And if they are the right casting... We have to wait and see.
I find the entire Gunn Di** riding just stupid. The same way the Snyder worshiping from his lackies was dumb. This was just the most obvious example to show that the original comment was wrong.
@@Smido83 you should mention them because the comment you replied to was saying that the casting is very accurate and to counter said comment you bitched out and brought up maxwell lord(a very obscure and irrelevant character that nobody would give a shit about anyway while not bringing up any of the main character casting(which look great.)
This is making me so excited
I would love to see a Space Cabbie series made! That would be such an awesome show for sure. I’m glad James Gunn is aiming at presenting lesser known characters from the DC mythos
I met Skyler Gisondo at a party last week. Congratulated him in landing Jimmy and got a picture with him. Super nice guy, hopefully he gets a good amount of screen time.
How did you get to meet him?
@@prathapkutty7407 it was a celebrity party I did security for. More DCEU actors (and Ben’s brother, whom I had to let know Ben is my favorite Batman, showed him my Batfleck action figures and posters in my room) were there as well. He was super appreciative of the love. He asked me if I wanted to take a picture, which was great because I wasn’t allowed to ask. Showed him the Superman painting I had commissioned for Christmas too. All in all it was a night to remember. Everyone there was super sweet.
@@YungHotSpitta you mean Casey Affleck? Did you show photos of your stuff to him?
@@prathapkutty7407 yes. He seems like a pretty reserved person but he was nice about me geeking out over his brother.
My favourite is David Counsweat as superman
my idea for the first phase of the DCU in addition to Gunn's announcements:
gods and monsters - (* for tv shows, ** for movies)
*creature commando
*waller
**superman: legacy
*lanterns
*peacmaker season 2 (introducing grodd or toyman)
**the authority "superman vs the authority" (like superman vs the elite)
*paradise lost
**the brave and the bold
*hawks of egypt (introducing carter and savage)
**the flash (introducing flash and reverse flash)
**green lantern corps (introducing sinestro)
*booster gold
**supergirl: woman of tomorrow
**swamp thing
**"jl vs lod" (end of gods and monsters)
What do you think?
5:09 man they haven’t even began filming yet and they all already look so great together
My favorites are David as Superman and Isabela as Hawkgirl. David because he was the only one up for the role I could actually see as Superman and Isabela because it was an absolute surprise but also absolutely perfect, been a huge fan of hers ever since Instant Family, an underrated actress playing an underrated hero.
My least favorite however is Brosnahan as Lois, I will forever stand by the fact that Emma Mackey should've been cast in the role
Finally i met someone whos familiar with isabela merced😂. Shes a real talented actress and has excelled in every role shes been in especially instant family. Im curious to know how she handles the physical part of the character as shes very tiny. Though im curious to know why rachel isnt your favorite pick for lois. Even i was rooting for emma since im a big fan of her work in sex education.
Rachel is a bit Ugly Lois Lane
@@prathapkutty7407 Isabela proved that she's very good at stunt work in Sweet Girl and can convincingly handle herself in a fight despite her size and she loves action movies and is very enthusiastic about doing as much of her own stunts as possible, couple that with the fact that Hawkgirl has super strength, you don't have to worry about Isabela's size.
As for why I don't like Rachel for Lois, it's the only casting for this movie where I look at it and simply just can't see it whereas with everyone else who has been cast, most especially David, I look at their casting and think it's picture perfect. And when I look at Emma Mackey, especially with the shorter hair she had in Death on the Nile coupled with her fantastic acting abilities, I see a perfect Lois so I was very disappointed she wasn't cast
That being said I didn't see it with Elizabeth Tulloch either and she's my favorite live action Lois now but on the other hand I didn't see it with Amy Adams as Lois and she proved me right. So only time will tell with Rachel
They did not black wash Jimmy!! What kind of magic is this!
I'm glad they are keeping John Cena as Peacemaker. I haven't historically been a John Cena fan, but he was perfect as Peacemaker. That show has been one of the best things the DC has done so far
11:05 That was technically officially announced in 2020 but was first mentioned in 2019. Also to clarify the reason why it’s taking so long is because that there were so many projects at five he had to get for a lot of them then focus on Fantastic Four and then cast them
Although yeah, it’s so weird knowing that Superman’s coming out after we already know a lot of the cast for that but we don’t even know any of the cast for Fantastic Four even though it comes out before
Nicholas Hoult has a role in DC and marvel now, he was Beast in the Fox X-Men universe now he is Lex Luthor in the DCU.
He's not Beast anymore watch The Marvels ending
What's your point??? Go learn to spell 'role' in the meantime.
@@user-pb2be5by1n Thanks, I didn't realize I spelled role wrong.
@@user-pb2be5by1n damn why are you so pressed about a typo💀
Fuckin goober behavior
@@johnleeka3282language
Also Jason Momoa as Lobo.
Can't wait for the DCU it will be great I hope !
The whole thing with Lex Luthor happen with Cillian Murphy for Scarecrow
I can't help but think Ilana Rostovik might be drawing inspiration from Perdita Vladek on _Young Justice_
Can you do chapter 3 and 4 predictions for the dcu like you did chapter 1 and 2 please, it can just be your personal choices and plots
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Please stop saying that seriously we know
@@susanterry7422 who?
Treeko
Hi
I want Creature Commandos to be live action.😢
It will
@@nytrix5346 now
Definitely
I’d like a decent horror scarecrow/ swamp thing/ scary poison ivy
With the way he did king shark I have high hopes for a halfway decent bane
Though I’ve never heard of or open him before, David is probably my favorite casting. He looks like a younger Henry Cavill, which is a good look for Superman
The only casting I have a problem with is Sean Gunn as Max
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Maxwell lord is a good casting
@@treek10kplease stop saying that
11:05 Watching this after the casting of Fantastic 4 released ❤❤
Rachel Brosnahan looks like Zooey Deschanel.
Blue beetle was perfect
I'm glad James Gunn said it's still in the dcu it's a really fun and good film
@@thepubknight6144 yes bro
Can't wait
Thank god. Prior to all this, we had a Jimmy Olsen who was killed in the opening scene of BVS, a DIck Grayson killed offscreen, and Snyder even went so far as to cast Jena Malone as Carrie Kelly. Initially Jesse Eisenberg was cast as Jimmy Olsen, but we got the worst Luthor and a dead Jimmy. Everything after Man of Steel was absolute trash.
The man should be banned from adapting comic book properties. Long Live James Gunn's DCU!
A lot of people forget Lex Luthor is a ginger
he is bald
I don’t. We gingers need to hold on to the few characters we’ve got.
Maybe in flashbacks or something they’ll have a ginger kid actor? If they even do anything like that in the new movies
@@kingsqueensgot9333 no they wont
@@yarc9before he was bald
Sweet, the're not going with that crap "Super Villian" version of Maxwell Lord.
Also, back in the day. Before the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern, a whole lot of us Green Lantern fans wanted Nathan Fillion to play Hal Jordan. But now we hear he's gonna play Guy Gardner? Hell yeah. This is even better than him playing Hal.
Wow! The casting my boy Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr? Excellent! I hope he gets a live action role because Frank Grillo is an outstanding action star. He's got the looks, charisma, and physicality.
One guy I think could have played an excellent Lex Luthor back in the day? Alfred Molina. He did so on Robot Chicken and I actually thought he was perfect.
I'm glad they are hiring a lot of lesser known actors. I feel that the MCU is a bit of a victim of its popularity by casting so many a list actors and wanting them to stay in these roles for such a long time. It's going to be a lot harder to keep this universe functioning if the actors aren't willing to commit to long term roles.
looks promising
NOHO HANK lets goooo!!
I’m optimistic about this universe but I’m just so confused on what’s canon in this DCU.
So Peacemaker season 1 isn’t canon but season 2 is? So when going through a binge watch of everything DCU, would you watch Peacemaker season 1 or skip straight to season 2? Then is The Suicide Squad canon too?
So Blue Beetle was supposed to be canon but because it performed poorly it’s not now?
If someone could clear this up for me, that would be great. I’m just struggling to follow what’s canon and what’s not.
Peacemaker is sort of just loose canon so the events of season 1 roughly happened. Peacemaker season 2 will be fully canon and set in the DCU. The blue beetle character is canon but the movie is not.
@@Thelorecookie Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
@Thelorec So will James Gunn make Jaime Reyes live lonely in his universe without having a family and will make for him a new suit that will use to fight dangerous threats outside Earth?
@@mohamedfawzy5843 No basically Blue Beetle is pretty much set in the DCEU. The actor will return in the DCU but it will not be the same blue beetle as before
@@Thelorecookie I mean that he might change his story if he's going to include him in the DCU.
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Skylar Gisondo, and Nicholas Hoult, are the perfect Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Lex Luthor
Do you know the cast for Creature Commandos?
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I know Frank Grillow plays Rick Flag senior and Sean Gunn plays GI Robot and Weasel. The others I can’t remember
Here: 13:40
6:44 Frankie’s and Mia
It all has a real ECW tv feel to everything. Might as well cast the whole cast of Gilmore girls too.
I'd like to see Nicholas Hoult bulk up a bit, gaining more muscle mass as lex luthor eas always quite big in the comics and I wabt them to differentiate as much as possible from Jessie eisenberg's portrayal in batman v superman
Where's LOBO
Superman = WHO?
Has no one ever read the VIGILANTE comics? He is one of my favorites. The dweeb character they have in this universe is an anathema to the spirit of the original character!
11:37 he did a Michael Jackson swap 😂
I like Adrian chase as a villain like in a arrow
I cannot wait for this universe to grow and its already so large. The DCEU only used about 10% of the massive roster of Heroes and Villain DC has to offer, mainly villains, i want more villains. Here is a list of who see at the beginning AND who haven't been used yet or for a long time :
Amazo
Atrocitus
Bane
Brainaic
Bizarro
Black Hand
Cerci
Count Vertigo
Cyborg Superman
Captain Cold
Darkseid
Doctor Psycho
Doctor Light (Arthur Light)
Eclipso
Felix Faust
Gorilla Grodd
Giganta
Golden Glider
Hugo Strange
Hush (He may be the main villain for The Batman Part 2)
Heatwave
Johnny Quick
Killer Frost
Livewire
Mr. Freeze
Man-Bat
Mirror Master
Meryln/Dark Archer
Metallo
Mongul
Mad Hatter
Nekkron
Owlman
Parasite
Power Ring
Reverse-Flash
Ras Al Ghul
Sinestro
Solomon Grundy
Superwoman
The Scarecrow
The Top
The Toyman
Ultraman
Ventriloquist and Scarface
Vandal Savage
Weather Wizard
I may have missed some but can you see how many villains haven't been or were not used in the DCEU
If they cast Alan Richardson to play Bruce Wayne, that would mark his third current DC. appearance as well as Gunn's 3
If they are going the route of justice league international this will fail
Tom Cruise should’ve been cast as Maxwell Lord
Oscar Isaac played 2 different characters in live action, Mark and Steven in Moon Knight
I’m not anticipating this at all.
Actually it is still mobius, but sega does not acknowledge sat am
Im really hoping they keep Brendan on as Robin and cast Alan Ritchson as Batman.
I mean sean gunn plays two animated characters that don't look like humans so it would be possible in live action
The entire James Gunn family will be in Superman Legacy
I know we're a looong way from it lol, but what I'm really looking forward to is the casting announcements for the Batman mythos characters.
A few of my wishes for the cast would be Jensen Ackles as Batman, Bryan Cranston as Comm. Gordon, and if they have a Harvey Bullock; then I'd have Dean Norris lol.
Im sorry but that maxwell lord casting is not it. Im getting tired of james gunn family castings. Im not against bringing in your family and friends this is getting ridiculous.
Blue beetle has a “horrible box office”?
That’s bs.
McLovin?
WB won't say it but if this fails bankruptcy is a REAL possibility..... They keep up this great casting and avoid the message they could turn it around
You can’t have one actor portray two characters in live action? I don’t think Eddie Murphy would agree.
I would probably more excited if Poison Ivy is cast 😀
Why would they cast her this early
Remember when Superman movies were about Superman 😔
Superman has always had many characters in his arcs as he's the blueprint and inspiration for every dc hero
@@thepubknight6144 Superman, Superman returns, Superman 3, man of steel, all had less than 3 heros max. That’s just a fact. If this was a Batman movie it’d be a solo film with like 5 characters max
I can see James Gunn is a must better fit than Snyder
To be honest , The black lion needs to post a video to talk about upcoming DC animated and live action tv show part 2
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Pretty sure he covered all of them in the first video
Liza Soberano should play Wonder Woman
Hopefully they will try to find ginger actors and actress to play these characters they keep replacing them with black actors and actress for some reason. Even in animation they replace gingers that proves that they hate gingers. I feel bad for gingers who are trying to make it in Hollywood these are the characters they could have played on the big screen and small screen. With Skyler Gisondo playing Jimmy Olsen is in the right direction given gingers a chance to play these characters. Nothing against the actors and actress who are supposed to gingers that play them. They were meant for ginger actors and actress the creators made them gingers.
David Corenswet looks better as Superman in the pictures instead of those random clips of it.
If you know what the execs did to the dceu and why things ended up the way they did, I will give no such respect to James Gunn and expect him to fk up just as bad as all those previous mess ups. Not a good look to constantly cast your brother from Gilmore girls to be main characters in the obscure movies he’s making to reboot the whole thing.
What about green Arrow dceu and black canary hbo movie 😊
That movie won't be happening
The dceu IS DEAD! Long live dcu
I WANT JACOB ELORDI AS NIGHTWING
PLEASE!
Give me Alan Ritchson as Deathstroke while you’re at it!!
Maxwell Lord isn’t in this movie. Belly can we let James Gunn cook please and hear him out and wait to see if Superman Legacy is true to Superman
He better have a bowl cut
James Gunn confirmed he will it’s actually one big reason why he casted him
Honestly I thought Nathan as guy was perfect
Especially based on how he played the character in suicide squad
I really hope I'm wrong in my adamant apposition to Sean Gunn playing Max Lord. I don't believe he's got what it takes to make Maxwell a mildly interesting, double-dealing, character. He´s goofy at his best, Guy Gardner would be a better call.
I have to say Skylar Gisondo - as Jimmy Olsen, is my favorite cast choice.
Unfortunately I don't share the overall optimism regarding the cast . Too many Idiotic characters! That would work in a Suicide Squad, International JL, maybe a Booster Gold movie. A movie called "Superman Legacy", which is meant to start a whole new Universe Franchise deserves better. Making Superman look good in comparison to a bunch of moronic third level heroes does not bode well...
I disagree with your statement about not having seen a "Good" Lex Luthor. True this is opinion and subjective, but from everything I've seen and heard, Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor in Smallville is still well regarded as one of the best portrayals of the character if not THE best portrayal in live action.
Again, subjective opinion and all that, but I feel like saying we've never seen a "good" Lex is a bit of a stretch.
I did say "live action movies" we've certainly had good Luthors in live action shows
i feel like anya would be better as zatanna idk it’s my opinion don’t attack me
Dead On Arrival Comics
Maybe what the dceu needed was the current downfall of the mcu, about blue beetle i just watched it and it was really good i hope to see these characters again maybe in a blue and gold moovie / show who knows.
After seeing Black Adam, Shazam: Fury Of The God's, The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom...I can see why James Gunn announced his plans to reset the DCEU. He knew that these upcoming dceu films were super mid and weren't going to be received well critically and commercially. No big tie ins, no future plans. Now we can get a proper DCU like we should of had years ago. James Gunn doesn't miss when it comes to filmmaking. Guardians 1-3, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker...looking forward to Superman Legacy and The Brave and the Bold.
DC keeps on making the same mistake… announcing all these character, all these actors and all these potential stories. And if 1 or 2 fail somebody steps in and changes everything again. Cancelling things we are looking forward to. I’m afraid of a repeat of last time. Even under new leadership.
2 black characters in the whole universe we need a Cyborg John Stewart or Black Lightning
The new DCEU is dead on before it begins. I wanted to see the Apokolypse war from Snyderverse i like the more dark gritty take. James Gunn verse wont be for me i hope everyone that supports it enjoys though.
So... We finally get Nathan Fillion to play Green Lantern..... and they made him Guy Gardner and NOT Hal Jordan!? BOO!
honestly i’m fine with it because he’s too old for hal at this point
I wonder if Peacemaker's appearance in Mortal Kombat will be canon to the DCU
I just feel DC has become a big incoherent mess. It all just confuses me. Hopefully, James Gunn and get projects completed and back on track.