It’s been a great couple of years for Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, who after an excellent stint with police procedural, action flicks, and more, is now set to sign up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
According to The Illuminerdi, Marvel Studios has actually hired Odenkirk to play what they call a ‘unique function’ in the upcoming Wonder Man Television series– which has actually currently set Watchmen’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to play the titular character.
While Odenkirk’s MCU offer hasn’t been formally revealed, wild theories have actually been raised online, with lots of speculation on the hit star’s next huge task after the much-awaited Better Call ending.
Marvel’s Most Unusual New Project
At this point, the MCU has actually fractured into a deformed mess of spacetime, with numerous timelines, universes, crisis possibilities, and more– all ripe for the intro of an uncommon hero from Marvel’s huge 1980 s lineup.
Before ending up being Wonder Man, Simon Williams was the boy of an industrialist who ran an effective arms factory– a direct rival to Stark Industries. Simon ultimately went to jail for embezzlement after acquiring the business, prior to being broken out by a character called Amora the Enchantress.
He then partner with Baron Zemo, who we last saw in The Falcon, and the Winter Soldier, who performs a series of experiments on Simon. The outcome is a bunch of superpowers with one catch– if Simon does not take a weekly serum dosage from Zemo … he passes away.
Immensely effective and with some intriguing tradition behind him, Simon’s story will form a great deal of future occasions. What we’re interested in, nevertheless, is the reality that he’s in fact a Hollywood character, as a well-known stuntman and star– which’s where Odenkirk can be found in.
Neal Saroyan made his launching in the very first problem of Wonder Man’ s 1991 continuous series. The entire point of the series was to sort of satirize 1990 s Hollywood and Neal was among the crucial characters to be utilized for teasing the excesses of Hollywood– as a sleazy, covertly superpowered representative who represented Simon, and typically turned to atrocious acts to advance his own gains.
Seriously, take a look at the contrast above– the similarity is incredible. It’s likewise an extremely fascinating possibility to enjoy Odenkirk play a psychic, as Saroyan in fact has odd psychic powers in the comics.
While Wonder Man is a quite underappreciated character in the comics, it’ll be fascinating to see what a star as competent as Odenkirk might give the function– and maybe the Studio has a couple of interesting things up their sleeves for us.
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