With the betting odds for the next restart of Fantastic Four, which strongly favors Giancarlo Esposito as Doctor Doom, a new work of art by popular digital artist BossLogic shows how he could appear in the role. Earlier this month, progress continued in the restart of Marvel’s first family when Kevin Feige announced it Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far from home Director Jon Watts was hired to lead the project. However, no casting announcements have been made yet.
Online are the betting odds for the Fantastic Four Casting on restart are named A quiet place Co-stars and real husband and wife John Krasinski and Emily Blunt as the most likely candidates for Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Regarding the casting of the antagonist, who will most likely be Doctor Doom, Vegas betting odds list Esposito as the actor most likely to get the role. Enter BossLogic who really helps sell fantasy casting with their awesome fan art.
Other actors who made the list for the likely casting decisions for Doctor Doom include Cillian Murphy, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Wes Bentley. There may be a tremendous amount of talent in this list of names, but as far as the bookmakers go, it’s more likely no one will get the role than Esposito.
Giancarlo Esposito is very popular for his appearances as the villain on various shows. His breakout role was as criminal kingpin Gustavo Fring in the AMC drama series breaking Bad, a role he continues to play in the spinoff series Better call Saul. On the superhero satire from Amazon The youngEsposito shines like the businessman Stan Edgar. Continue as Moff Gideon The MandalorianEven more recognition has found the way to Esposito, who has clearly proven that he is always fantastic at playing the bad guy.
Fantastic Four was first developed as a film for the big screen in 2005 by director Tim Story. Julian McMahon starred as Doctor Doom in that film, and McMahon would repeat the role in the 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In 2015, director Josh Trank would restart the franchise with one Fantastic Four own film, this time with Toby Kebbell as Victor Von Doom. Since then, it has been announced that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be restarting the superhero team again, meaning that a new actor will also be needed to play their greatest enemy.
There is still no word about when the new is Fantastic Four will start filming or when it could be released, but with a director on board it seems casting announcements should be released sooner rather than later. While bookies aren’t always right, the Vegas betting odds favoring Esposito also seem to strongly suggest that he’s the most likely actor to be cast. In any case, it will be interesting to see who lands behind the helmet. Esposito’s fan art as Doctor Doom was posted by BossLogic on Twitter.
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