Principal filming has completed on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and I have one major question about the production: Just who is Bill Murray playing in the movie, anyway? I'm trying t think of a Marvel character he might be portraying, but I can't come up with anything that convinces me. My only real guess is that maybe he is playing an older version of Scott Lang that shows up due to some Kang related time travel shenanigans.
BUT he has also played New characters strictly for laughs. Or maybe an older version of a DC character just for the ordasity of it.
ReplyDeleteAudacity is his speciality.
ReplyDeleteI remember this great Kirby cover! But wish it was the original Curt Swan version of Brainiac rather than the later super robot.
ReplyDeleteI think it's one of two other possibilities.
ReplyDeleteGive him a top hat, tuxedo, and cape (with matching black-and-white wand), plus a fake handlebar moustache, and he could be The Magician. A minor-league super-villain whose biggest claim to fame is having been a two-shot foe of Hank and Janet!
On the other hand; give him a white lab smock and a buzz cut (a la Harry Connick Jr. as "Daddy Warbucks") and he could pass for Egghead!
Bill Murray doesn't have to play anybody. He's Bill Freakin' Murray.
ReplyDeleteInteresting choice, using (what appears to be) a 60s version of Hank and Janet with the post-Crisis Brainiac. Like Dave, I would've preferred to see the original look, but I think this still works, especially with the characters' respective poses.
ReplyDeleteAs for the character Bill Murray is playing, I'm mostly with Tobor; I think Bill will be an original character -- or even himself -- played just for comic relief. Second choice is Cary's general thought that he'll be playing an old foe (or possibly ally) of Hank and Janet.
I used that version of Brainiac because Kirby drew it and I wanted to pit him against a Kirby-drawn Marvel hero.
ReplyDeleteHe could be doing a cameo as himself.
ReplyDeleteHe also be be doing a voice-over for...The Scarlet Beetle.
The latter is not the mechanical genius who now calls himself MACH-1 of the Thunderbolts. But, one of many mutated arthropods, of the Marvel Silver Age, who tried conquering the world upon gaining sentience through nuclear contamination of some kind. For a movie portrayal, though, I would suggest hyper-evolution via a defective "aging ray" developed by Elias Weems. A scientist recently forced to "retire" through age discrimination!
Murray could play Weems, some of whose DNA partially contributes to the Scarlet Beetle's mutation (hence, the voice-over).
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ReplyDeleteBraniac isn't post-crisis. It's the re-vamp Marv Wolfman and Gil Kane did in Action Comics #544 (1981, if I'm not mistaken).
ReplyDeleteI do agree, however, that while I like the cover, the time differnce between the Giant Man and Wasp art and the Braniac art is a bit disconcerting.
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@Ross & Anon@11:37: Thanks for the clarifications and correction (respectively) about Brainiac.
ReplyDelete@Anon@10:26: Maybe Ross could do a Blue Beetle vs. Scarlet Beetle cover.
Count me as seconding Mr. Greenwade's motion. :-)
ReplyDeleteHarry, that's what makes it so good - like the Alien movie when it came out. You're not use to it at that time. Brainiac revamped would not be something scientist or super hero Hank would have been prepared for.
ReplyDelete@Harry & Tobor: H.R. Giger would probably have been prepared. ;-)
ReplyDelete@Anon@8:19: I guess he'd be someone you could count on, eh? #BadPunNoCookie
ReplyDelete"As the eponymous inventor of the xenomorphic detection device, the Giger counter, I hereby humbly accept the first-ever Nobel Prize for Mad Science."
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