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

Hiroyuki Sanada – The Mandarin

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Yes, Marvel will probably cast a white actor in the role of the (real) Mandarin, and no, they really shouldn’t. There are a massive amount of Asian actors who could play the part to perfection, none more than Hiroyuki Sanada.

After the veteran Japanese actor held his own against Logan in The Wolverine, there’s little question that he could be an appropriately menacing Mandarin. It’s still unclear whether Marvel will stick with Iron Man 3‘s lame story about Aldrich Killian being the “real Mandarin” (unlike One-Shot All Hail the King, which confirmed there is a real Mandarin out there somewhere, although he remained off-camera), but Sanada is definitely worth keeping in contention for any future version of the role.

It’s safe to say that most hardcore fans were not satisfied with Ben Kingsley’s pansy “Trevor” imitation of the character, and the Iron Man films’ biggest issue is that they still haven’t birthed a nemesis for Tony Stark. With The Ten Rings still kicking, it would terrific to meet its leader sooner rather than later.

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