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Casting for a 1990s Avengers movie?


Iron Man - Brad Pitt

Captain America - Val Kilmer

Thor - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hulk - Bill Paxton

Black Widow - Famke Janssen

Hawkeye - Christian Slater

Nick Fury - Joe Morton

Loki - Gary Oldman

Maria Hill - Michelle Forbes

Phil Coulson - Scott Bakula

Pepper Potts - Cameron Diaz

...I think this casting would be very expensive

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I love Slater for Hawkeye - perfect casing there. Gary Oldman is great too.

Tom Cruise as Iron Man (circa 1995) would have been great.

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Almost thought of Costner for Hawkeye cuz Robin Hood reference. But I think he'd been too old.

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Paul Walker for Hawkeye - tall,athletic and funny .

Bridgette Wilson for Carol Danvers

Pepper Potts should be Angelica Bridges or Angie Everhart

Milla Jovovich for Black Widow

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"Paul Walker for Hawkeye - tall,athletic and funny"

Today, he's easily crispy and charred enough to portray The Human Torch in the next Fantastic Four flick

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Early 90s:

CA - Patrick Swayze
IM - Tom Selleck
Thor - Dolph Lundgren
BW - Rebecca De Mornay
Hawkeye - Emilio Estevez
Hulk - Bruce Campbell
Loki - Jeffrey Combs

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Almost there. I don’t think Pitt has enough energy to pull off Stark though. George Clooney would be better.

Then Pitt could possibly be an alternative to Kilmer as Captain America, then he can play off well to Clooney’s provocations.

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How about Tom Cruise? He was their first choice before RDJ.

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It would be expensive, and thats why most of the MCU was actors with very short movie resumes, or simply trying to get some back like RDJ. I think that had a lot to do with the huge success of the MCU, because we could allow ourselves to see these actors as these characters alone, for the most part. Its hard not to see Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise at this point or even back then. Getting big names did start changing a little with the later MCU movies, after they really took off. This list is all A listers, so not really comparable to the cast of the MCU at the beginning.

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Paxton as Hulk would've been great.

I think Spider-Man could've eventually been played by Michael J Fox.

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Iron Man - Probably RDJ still or Jeff Bridges or George Clooney
Captain America - Brad Pitt or Patrick Swayze
Thor - Arnold
Hulk - Bruce Campbell
Black Widow - Julia Roberts or Linda Hamilton
Hawkeye - Kurt Russell or Slater
Nick Fury - He was white until 2001. So Sam Neill or Ray Liotta. I agree Morton would be good though. Sidney Poitier. Maybe Charlton Heston.
Loki - Oldman, I agree
Coulson - Bakula works
Pepper - Cameron Diaz or Drew Barrymore
Spider-Man - Jim Carrey or Michael J. Fox
Black Panther/T'Challa - Denzel

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Oh, man. Heston would had been great as Nick Fury. Love the Bruce Campbell casting.

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