If you happen to’re making a TV present a couple of Hollywood stuntman, you’re going to wish some actors within the forged. And within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s actually solely a handful of these. Essentially the most distinguished might be Trevor Slattery, performed by Sir Ben Kingsley.
Launched in Iron Man 3 because the MCU model of Iron Man’s arch-nemesis the Mandarin, he was ultimately revealed as as decoy; an actor named Trevor Slattery who was being paid by the true Mandarin to function a physique double to disguise his evil plans. Since then, Slattery additionally appeared within the “One-Shot” brief movie “All Hail the King,” after which Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which featured Wenwu, a villain loosely based mostly on the comedian ebook model of the Mandarin, who served because the inspiration for the pretend Mandarin performed by Kingsley. (All people obtained that?)
The Slattery character is a bumbling, boozing actor, which makes him a nice selection for the forged of a Surprise Man TV present just like the one Marvel is supposedly creating for Disney+. The Surprise Man character, Simon Williams, has generally labored as a Hollywood stuntman in his downtime from serving on the Avengers — and Selection reviews that it appears to be like seemingly that would be the premise of the present as properly:
Kingsley returning as Slattery lends credence to reviews that the present is meant to be a Hollywood satire, because it has been established that Slattery is a failed actor and Surprise Man has been an actor and a stuntman within the comics. Precisely how Kingsley would issue into the plot of the collection and what number of episodes he would seem in is being saved below wraps, however sources say he’ll play a significant position.
Surprise Man might work as a pleasant counterpart to She-Hulk, one other Marvel present that’s much less about superhero adventures than it’s a office comedy set in a world the place superheroes exist. It’s early but, however that strategy looks like a enjoyable option to distinguish it from each different MCU TV present, which are typically extra serialized and filmic. Let TV reveals be like TV reveals I say.
Marvel has but to announce a premiere date for Surprise Man on Disney+.
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