I got a request by CBM.COM user OPTIMUSPRIME114@ to do a
SECRET AVENGERS casting. I never got a request before so bear with
me. I haven't thought of doing one of this group before, the AVENGER'S
Black-ops group, so I got to work on it right away!
Luckily I had already been working on another fancast with some of these
characters in it and the pictures were already to go!
The first issue of their new comic was published, JULY, 2010, and has been
ongoing ever since. It's part of Marvel's new “HEROIC AGE”. It's written
by ED BRUBAKER and penciled and inked by the extremely brilliant,
MIKE DEODATO JR.
When STEVE ROGERS took over Norman Osborn's role as top cop, he chose not to
continue H.A.M.M.E.R. or to reestablish S.H.I.E.L.D. Instead, he decided to
put the world's security into the hands of a few Avenger teams. One of these
teams became the Secret Avengers, and he took direct leadership of it with
Sharon Carter assisting him with tactical operations.
The purpose of this team was to covertly clean up the messes left by the
Osborn administration. To this end, Steve personally recruited a team that
would allow him to carry out surgical strikes in any given circumstance.
This included experienced covert operators like BLACK WIDOW, MOON
KNIGHT and ANT-MAN; a scientist in BEAST; a one man army in WAR
MACHINE; a powerful magical warrior called the VALKYRIE in
BRUNNHILDE, and the cosmos' top cop NOVA.
“A personal note here, my pure-Norwegian grandmother's first name was
HILDA, meaning “warrior-woman”, it's a very common name for girls in
Norwegian families. BRUNNHILDE is spelled in old Norse, BRYNHILDR,
meaning ARMORED-WARRIOR WOMAN, she was the QUEEN OF THE
VALKYRIE.”
Now I'm not going to bore everyone to tears here with extensive bios on all
the characters cuz they are just so well-known I don't think it's necessary.
SECRET AVENGERS MOVIE FANCAST:
This is the older STEVE ROGERS and I think MARK is perfect for this
role. He got really beefed up for “HUMAN TARGET” on FOX TV.
CAPTAIN STEVE ROGERS: MARK VALLEY
This is my first and favorite choice to play VALKYRIE.
VALKYRIE: YVONNE STRAHOVSKI
BEAST (HANK McCOY): JON HAMM
KATE is ideal for NATALIA ROMANOVA! I wish she had played her in
the IRON-MAN movies and eventually in THE AVENGERS. I don't like
RYAN REYNOLD'S wife for the part at all!
BLACK WIDOW: KATE BECKINSALE
ROGER CROSS is an extremely good character actor and plays
military types very well. He was agent CURTIS MANNING on 24.
WAR MACHINE (JIM RHODES): ROGER CROSS
ANT-MAN (ERIC O'GRADY): JAMES RODAY
Now I thought long and hard about who can play MOON KNIGHT and
his three personas he maintains. So I chose JEFFREY DONOVAN of
USA Channel's “BURN NOTICE”. He must have a thousand
personalities rolling around in his head! And he does diverse
characters very well in movies (see Clint Eastwood's “THE
CHANGELING”). He's also very good at playing a covert operative.
Now I'm not stereotyping Jeffrey here but if he can play this covert
operative on TV with a multitude of undercover characters he surely
can play the three MOON KNIGHT has, millionaire STEVEN GRANT,
cab driver JAKE LOCKLEY, and of course his real identity MARC
SPECTOR, mercenary soldier. Plus Jeffrey is in damn good shape so he
would certainly look good in the costume and he's a very good actor!
MOON KNIGHT (MARC SPECTOR): JEFFREY DONOVAN
Here's Jeffrey as...JAKE LOCKLEY, MARC SPECTOR, STEVEN GRANT
Jeffrey does tons of different characters on Burn Notice when he's undercover.
He's amazing!
NOVA (RICHARD RIDER): JARED PADALECKI
SUPPORTING CAST:
SHARON CARTER: SIENNA MILLER
XANDARIAN WORLDMIND: SIR IAN McKELLEN
ARCHON is an enormous powerful being, the last of a group of beings
who were built by THE WATCHERS. ARCHON and his brethren were tasked
with destroying an ancient dark force that seeks to obliterate the
universe.
ARCHON: CGI + CHRISTOPHER JUDGE (VOICE)
'NUFF SAID!
NICK FURY: BRUCE WILLIS
MAIN BAD GUYS:
THE SHADOW COUNCIL --
Aloysius was born in the 1800's. The son of a wealthy man in the south, his
father helped fund the Confederate Army of the United States while Aloysius
served as a Major against the Union. After the Confederate defeat and his
family nearly bankrupt, he and his colleagues were on a search for a Union
spy. While following him, he touched a being known as the Abyss, described
as a dormant power of the universe and 'the darkness inside the darkness'.
Over 150 years later, Aloysius is the director of an organization known as the
Shadow Council.
They obviously drew ALOYSIUS (AL-O-WEE-SHUS) to look a lot like good
ol' CLINT EASTWOOD but Clint's now too old to play him.
I chose the next best older cowboy-actor, KEITH CARRADINE, star of a
total classic, along with his brothers, and an absolute favorite of mine,
“THE LONG RIDERS”.
ALOYSIUS THORNDRAKE: KEITH CARRADINE
MAX FURY:
SECRET AVENGERS “SECRET HISTORIES” (EPILOGUE)
Five years ago in Paris, a man resembling Nick Fury is arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D.
agents.
In the present, Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter talk with Nick Fury about the
Shadow Council agent that resembles Fury. Recognizing him, Fury tells when his
brother Jacob worked with Zodiac as Scorpio. According to Fury, Jacob stole a
new “LIFE MODEL DECOY” prototype and reprogrammed it using the Zodiac Key,
giving it Fury's memory. This made the LMD think that it actually was Fury. Its
AI broke, and when Zodiac fell, it was captured.
The LMD was captured and escaped several times. The LMD, believing itself to be
the real Fury, began doing things the real Fury would do, stopping terrorist
threats. S.H.I.E.L.D. managed to capture the LMD again. A few days later, the
LMD was incinerated, or so it seemed.
After finishing the story, Fury is asked by Rogers to identify the uniform the
LMD was wearing. Fury says that he hasn't seen it before, to Steve's dismay.
Sharon then tells Fury to have his sources look into that uniform and to
contact them when they have something.
Five years ago, in the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, a mysterious man reactivates
the LMD and helps it escape. The man tells the LMD that he can help it get a
new life and its own name. The man names the LMD Max.
In the present, Max does some research about the Secret Avengers in the Shadow
Council headquarters. The mysterious man that helped Max escape, revealed to be
John Steele, tells Max that the Secret Avengers will need to be watched or
taken down if necessary.
MAX FURY: BRUCE WILLIS
JOHN STEELE was a soldier-hero of the Golden Age of comics. He first
appeared in “DARING MYSTERIES COMICS #1, JANUARY, 1940.
He was written, penciled and inked by the legendary Joe Simon.
He's a bad guy in the present!
JOHN STEELE: DAVID MORSE