10 Actors Who Need To Join The Marvel Cinematic Universe, And Who They Should Play

With Avengers: Age of Ultron capping off Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this May, and the studio moving boldly forward into Phase Three, which will bring new characters like Captain Marvel (yes, the Carol Danvers version!) and the Inhumans into the fold, the future is beyond bright for comic-book fans. So far, Marvel has put nary a foot wrong (we're just going to go ahead and overlook the weaker aspects of Iron Man 2 on account of it giving us Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow), both in terms of its films' plots and the actors that the studio has cast as its super-powered protagonists, and there's no reason to think that trend is going to end anytime soon.

WGTC Staff Feb 2, 2015 4:44 pm2015-02-10T15:05:18-05:00

Burn Gorman – MODOK

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Though MODOK likely won’t appear in Captain America: Civil War, as many had previously theorized before the film’s subtitle was officially announced, there’s a strong possibility that the brilliant supervillain, a technician forcibly mutated into a living computer with psionic powers, will grace the silver screen sooner or later, especially given that the Tesseract and AIM (the nefarious corporation responsible for his creation) are already part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And when considering which actor could equally embody MODOK’s mad ambition and extraordinary intellect, the buck really stops with Torchwood star Burn Gorman. Known for playing brainy scientist types (most recently in Pacific Rim), Gorman has the dramatic grit necessary to play a truly memorable MODOK, and the diversity of the roles on his filmography (he’s played a brother of the Night’s Watch on Game of Thrones, a Revolutionary War general on TURN and a dastardly businessman in The Dark Knight Rises) indicates that he’d be more than up for the challenge.

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