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It’s not shocking to see Nathan Fillion, the Castle star who’s an object of affection for geek girls everywhere, clad in a Green Lantern shirt. At Comic-Con, he is among his people, Fillion says. And those are the same people who campaigned to have Fillion star in the new Green Lantern movie, a role that went to his co-star from the late-1990s sitcom Two Guys and a Girl, Ryan Reynolds. “I’m wearing the shirt to embrace that idea,” Fillion says of fans’ ongoing passion for him to play a big-screen superhero (he does star in the upcoming superhero flick Super, playing the Holy Avenger). “But Ryan Reynolds is an excellent choice. I’ve got to say it. Anything extraordinary, you have to approach it with honesty. And that’s something Ryan Reynolds has always been able to do. From the moment I met him on Two Guys and a Girl, with the out-of-bounds kind of reality that his character had — Berg was always a little bit out of his mind – he always approached it with an honest reality.” I also told Fillion that it’s a good thing he didn’t wear an Ant-Man shirt, since there were already rumors swirling that he’d be joining old friend Joss Whedon’s The Avengers movie as the shrinking hero. “It’s too small!” he quips.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG i no there has bin a lot of Rumours about if Nathan would be Ant Man in the new Avengers or not well Joss Whendon just made it official, Nathan will be playing Ant Man. So congrats Nathan on this.
So Joss Whedon has just named Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Buffy, Dr Horrible) as Ant Man in the Avengers movie.
Ok so it was a joke by Joss, Nathan will not be playing Ant Man
Joss’ comment: Funny and very clearly a joke. People hear: Whatever they wanna hear
According to a tweet from executive producer Laurie Zaks, Castle will be making an appearance at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. There will be a panel on Sunday, July 25th, from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM. Unfortunately, Comic Con is already all sold out. If only, we could have known this earlier. Maybe if some of you were already going before this announcement, you could give us a full scoop. Hopefully there will be photos to share after the event! You will updated with any other information if/when it becomes available.
Now, THIS is an interesting couple of casting puzzles. Over the weekend, Marvelous News ran a report that actor Kevin Pennington had got some mysterious role in the AVENGERS movies. While that’s certainly a scoop, the same report nonchalantly adds that Nathan Fillion will be Hank Pym and that an official announcement regarding that will come out of SDCC.
Wait… what?
No slight to Pennington, but his only major role so far has been in the latest BEVERLY HILLS 90210 series, while Fillion is, of course, a fan favorite thanks to FIREFLY and DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG. So any news of him acting in a Marvel movie is, of course, going to be a big scoop as far as fans are concerned. The question Bleeding Cool brings up regards how his casting might jibe with Edgar Wright’s long-in-development ANT-MAN movie, which you’d assume would star Simon Pegg. Well, keeping in mind that this is still just a rumor, I’d say that there are a lot of easy ways to reconcile the two. For one, there have been, what, three Ant-Men in the comics? Fillion could just be Pym as Giant-Man in THE AVENGERS, while Pegg could be Scott Lang or Eric O’Grady as Ant-Man in his own movies. There’s also that persisting rumor that ANT-MAN would be a co-production with Pixar, meaning it could be either outside Marvel’s main movie-verse or audiences would necessarily be as discriminating about the difference in actors.
Or Fillion could just be acting in Wright’s movie, too, and that’s that.
Anyway, Pennington’s had to retract a couple of tweets regarding the details of his role. The facts, according to Marvelous News’s insider, are that he’s playing a mask-less, fan-favorite who’s been retooled as a SHIELD agent. And he isn’t playing Hawkeye. This identity puzzle seemed a little challenging but, after looking at the Wikipedia page on this actor, it seems kind of obvious.
The page’s filmography section credits him as the Avenger’s sidekick, Rick Jones.
Chew on that one!
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