Just over a year ago, I expressed my extreme distaste for the rumor that Vin Diesel might play the role of Black Bolt in a film of Marvel's Inhumans. Thankfully, in April of this year the film had been pushed back from its original July 12, 2019 release, and then completely cut from Marvel's film schedule. Which is the good news.
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I've made it well known that I think Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is crap, it's quite terrible. Even with all the headway the Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider has been making, the show is still not nearly as great as it should be. It gets 2 steps ahead and makes 5 steps back. They need better writers and better directors. Seriously, the showrunners have lost the magic of what made Agent Coulson so appealing in the movies. The same can be said about Agent Carter. They need to go back and study what made these characters special in the movies and focus on replicating it on television.
Skye/Daisy/Quake gained some powers and went from hacking-as-a-semi-superpower to master combatant. It's absolutely preposterous. Fitz and Simmons are in the same boat- everybody is now an action star, leaving no differentiation between characters. That's very poor story telling.
And that's exactly why I'm very worried about the Inhumans being handled by a team that relegates their characters to daytime soap opera status. We want things at least to have the quality the Netflix shows have. The interpersonal relationship drama and angst is far too abused in S.H.I.E.L.D., maybe they need to focus on small tasks and awesome Mission Impossible type subterfuge as opposed to all the damn overused world threatening crap. For Inhumans, they should simply adapt the 12 issue Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee run. Keep it simple and meaningful. A tightly knit story with a huge payoff.
As for Diesel in the main role- thank goodness at least Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn doesn't believe he'll do it. Which is great. He has all the emotive facial acting talent of a slab of beef. They would be much better off hiring someone like Jason Isaacs, or Christopher Meloni. Or both and have one of them play Blackagar Boltagon's brother Maximus. Get talent that can give extremely expressive performances without needing words.
GAMES
I've been playing Marvel Heroes for a couple years and we'll finally be getting Black Bolt in game soon. It's super exciting and I hope they've got him done correctly. I mean, he's super fun in Marvel Future Fight, so I can only imagine the larger game will have him slightly better. Obviously a mobile game poses a lot more limitations than PC games, so they'll have more opportunity.
I'm also hoping we'll eventually get his Earth X costume pictured below for both games.
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