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Everyone who has seen is says that Flashpoint is good, but given the number of delays and reshoots, and reshoots of reshoots and apparently now more reshoots it's going to be a miracle if it isn't a mess by the time it is finally released.

Marvel changes actors in supporting roles on a whim it seems. That seemed to be the rule, at least. When they changed actors for Hulk he also transformed into a supporting character.

I guess now they are going the other way though and deliberately pulling actors from decades ago into their old roles by way of a wig and a digital facelift.

They had that random featured extra from one scene in Iron Man come back as a secondary villain in Far From Home for example, and also, everyone in No Way Home.

But they did replace Hugo Weaving for poopooing the MCU before it took off. I bet he felt like a right idiot later, he probably pissed away a massive paycheck with his comments.

His… likeness?

Isn't Hulk a supporting character cause they still can't make a stand alone without having to work with Universal?

Yup. They don’t change much unless they need to, normally money, death or actors not wanting to reprise roles (which is more rare, obv.).

He wanted the same as Downey got for 2 and was shown the door.
They recast the sword welding guy in Thor for the sequel and I never knew until Honest Trailers mentioned it.

I could see a situation where Weaving could claim whoever played Skull in Avengers was doing an impersonation of his performance, which would potentially be another Crispin Glover situation. Personally I think if you're playing an established character from years of other media and interpretations, like Skull is, then it would be hard to delineate between "I'm doing my Hugo Weaving" and "I'm playing the Red Skull", but I've seen weirder Hollywood lawsuits.

Anyway, it's moot, because Weaving didn't seem to care.

(Just in case everyone isn't aware, Crispin Glover sued over Back to the Future II because, after he decided not to return, he felt the actor playing George McFly was doing an impression of him, which might lead people to think it WAS him, which might have a negative effect on his career; IIRC the case was settled but generally speaking you don't get actors literally wearing prosthetics to look like other actors anymore)

Your point is that you claimed, without evidence, that Hugo Weaving got paid for someone else to play Red Skull because he was once dressed up like Red Skull.

If you now wish to pretend you were saying some other thing that what you said, out with it, man. I have a man explaining that the Earth is flat on the other line.

Middle aged men arguing about nerd shit that doesn't matter.

Classic FG

I guess the challenge is then to find a single instance in movie history where someone has been paid because the studio that owns the character they played hires someone new with similar makeup and voice.

or even any example remotely like what you said. Maybe Chuckston Hearst who was famously recast in “It Came From Out Your Arse”

Isn't that why they went with Ross Marquand, the man of many voices, because he nailed the impression?

...I didn't even notice they switched out George McFly's, though it has been a long time since I saw BTTF II.

To be honest I hadn't even noticed they switched out Red Skull either so I might not be the best judge...