A few months ago, I excitedly posted a Hero Worship column about Robert Redford being cast in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, calling it "one of the greatest things
to superheroes." While I maintain that sentiment, my mind was once again blown apart by the latest Guardians of the Galaxy casting news, in which Glenn Close reportedly joined the cast as, get this, the leader of the Nova Corps.
Forget the fact that we're going to get a Nova Corps in the same movie as a badass gun-toting raccoon, but the idea that an actor like Close is in the same movie as former WWE Superstar Batista is enough to melt brains. Not that the crop of actors in Marvel Phase One were unremarkable, but it's interesting to watch the paradigm shift from the "type" of actors that make appearances in these movies. I suppose the precedent was set, to a degree, with Marlon Brando in Superman: The Movie, but even then that was nothing more than a glorified cameo with no repeat performance.
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