At the August 5-6, 2022 Thomas J. Henry’s Superhero Car Show & Comic Con, indicated his desire for a next Disney tentpole leap from Star Wars to Marvel, telling fans at a comics convention down in Texas today that he’s putting a potential Marvel movie role “out in the universe.”
He again shared his interest and updates on the MCU, “I have not worked for Marvel yet, I have been in the room and talked with them. . .I think what they do is on the lines of that mythological journey that Joe Campbell talked about, who happened to be a friend of George Lucas that George Lucas put into his stories, they do the same thing. It is our dream. . .to save the world, our environment, to save the world from greedy corporations, to uplift the world and have leadership that thinks about us, for the people, by the people, which means those future leaders are in this room right now. . .so we want to inspire one another, we want to lift each other up, because what happens when THAT happens. . .then we actually DO have a visionary dream for a new world and then we can actually start to reverse all the things that we have destroyed that world shows us if we don’t change how we move in this universe."
He went on to say, "So, there is talk of Magneto. . . there is a talk of Dr. Freeze. . .there has been talk of, who else are they talking about over there, oh… of Doom, Victor Von Doom. . .Dr. Von Doom, and there is. . .Professor X”. When asked to pick one, he responded with The Law of Attrraction, “I am going to go for something that is a little bit different. I am going to go and put it out in the universe that it is Professor X.”
WHY HE FEEL MARVEL/DISNEY IS HIS NEXT STEP
In an ET interview, when asked by a journalist a few years ago about Marvel rumors and his dream roles, Giancarlo Esposito said that he had worked with Marvel executive producer, Louis D’Esposito before, noting “what they do is fantastic, I want to do something enduring with them. . .I think the Marvel world would be likely the next step for me and then i would step back into playing some characters I think that really did change the world through their actions and that it really didn't matter what color they were that they were. . . you know to understand that we're all human again. . .I'd like to be able to to really play characters who start to extend that in our world and honor that.”
He then went on to say, that when Disney / Marvel ask actors to collaborate, “you're really not looking at, you know, your ego anymore you're looking at what forwards and propels the story in a direction that we can all relate to and Disney Plus is a platform that allows a family to come together again and watch this heroic movement in entertainment together. . .changes the game because it focuses your attention on your ideals, your morals making the right decision. . .where do we belong , where should we be, what's the next step for all of us as a humanity.”