AVENGERS: ENDGAME Fan-Made Poster Features The Actors Who Missed Out On Key MCU Roles

AVENGERS: ENDGAME Fan-Made Poster Features The Actors Who Missed Out On Key MCU Roles

This past weekend marked the one-year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame's release in theaters, and a newly shared fan-made poster assembles a cast made up of actors who missed out on joining the MCU...

By JoshWilding - Apr 27, 2020 03:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Endgame

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has assembled an incredible cast of actors over the years, but it's also missed out on some other amazing alternatives for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, they just weren't suitable for the role in question, while there was the odd occasion when the actor or actress in question simply turned Marvel Studios down because they didn't want to join a superhero franchise.

In this very cool fan-made poster for Avengers: Endgame, we see some of those big-name stars re-imagined as part of the record-breaking blockbuster, including Tom Cruise as Iron Man and John Krasinski as Captain America. Emily Blunt, meanwhile, is Black Widow, and Daniel Craig is Thor! 

We also see Joaquin Phoenix as Doctor Strange, Timothée Chalamet as Spider-Man, Zachary Levi as Star-Lord, and a number of other "What if?" style casting decisions that never came to pass. It makse for an unusual sight, but one that leaves it hard not to wonder what could have been. 

We'll never know now, of course, but for the actors here who didn't ultimately join the MCU, we're definitely hoping they get the chance somewhere down the line (Krasinski, for example, is a firm fan-favourite to play Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four reboot in the works at Marvel Studios).

See which other names you can spot in the poster below:
 

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tmp3
tmp3 - 4/27/2020, 3:09 PM
I'm happy that Chalamet lost out on Cyclops and Spider-Man. Probably would have stopped him from a lot of other projects, and he's a talented guy.
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 4/27/2020, 4:12 PM
@tmp3 - Chalamet is a different kind of force.

He is a gift sent from God to to save us from our sins.

He single-handedly made Saiorse and Florence crush on him (see Little Women).

He roasted Murph in Interstellar when the tire broke.

He is the one Chuck Norris keeps a pictute of under his pillow.

He is the Chalamet Stone that goes on to hunt all 6 Thanos-es on his hand.

It's a Chalamet world and we are just living in it.
tmp3
tmp3 - 4/27/2020, 4:19 PM
@kylo0607 - Chalamet is the mind killer
Darth258
Darth258 - 4/27/2020, 3:10 PM
Thanos in the background should be the guy that played him in the post credit of Avengers. That guy sure got shafted..
QuietStorm
QuietStorm - 4/27/2020, 3:34 PM
@Darth258 - I think about this often.
DalekCraigWasson
DalekCraigWasson - 4/27/2020, 3:46 PM
@Darth258 - He was a stuntman and has been brought back for henchman roles in other MCU films like Civil War. Maybe not what Josh Brolin got, but certainly not shafted...
Darth258
Darth258 - 4/27/2020, 3:54 PM
@DalekCraigWasson - I guess i totally missed him in Civil War (he's listed in just that movie as far as i can tell from wikipedia). Partially shafted then, going from potential main villain to background henchman.
I think he fitted the role and had the right build and voice if they went with a mix of prosthetics and cgi.

The only time i've seen Damion Poitier after Avengers was in a few Flash episodes.
Darth258
Darth258 - 4/27/2020, 3:56 PM
Edit. The other was just stuntman in Dark World
capcyclopsftw
capcyclopsftw - 4/27/2020, 4:25 PM
@Darth258 - I never understood how this guy got "shafted". Did they promise him the role for years? They needed a quick stand in for the scene. Dude turned his head and smiled and people act like he was the reason Thanos was so popular?
Darth258
Darth258 - 4/27/2020, 4:56 PM
@capcyclopsftw - Not sure if he was the reason Thanos was so popular because anyone in the theather and out that never picked up a comic book knew who Thanos was in the first place, probably still don't since they most likely just saw the movie version of him.
But as the first incarnation, and one that resembled visually the comic book counterpart more than, let's say it, IW/Endgame Thanos, i think the guy deserved a shot at the character. But instead they wanted to go with a big name instead. That is my opinion on the why. No idea if he had a contract or promises or anything.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 4/27/2020, 3:11 PM
No Hulk looks terrible. :)
dracula
dracula - 4/27/2020, 3:24 PM
@DoubleD - would be cool to see a hulk that actually looks like Edward Norton
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