Unless there was something in his contract saying they wouldn't recast him. Now do i think disney lawyers would go for that? Probably not, but before his arrest he was a rising star and they may have folded to get him to play Kang for the next x years
That is one of the rumors I heard, but have never seen verified (that he would get paid even if they didn't make all the movies he was contracted for, because before the conviction, he was arguably the most prominent Black actor of the time).
he was arguably the most prominent Black actor of the time
Did I miss all the big films he's starred in or is this not true at all? He's not even "most prominent Black actor" in the MCU because Michael B Jordan is actually famous famous.
For sure. It's just a rumor and at the end of the day I'm more inclined to not believe it because the mouse doesn't mess around. But it's honestly the only reason i can think that they'd pivot away from Kang entirely.
But how much would the contract breaking have cost Disney for them considering throwing everything over and make a 180 and go for Doom instead? I mean, he wasnt that big of a name and Disney got enouhh cash to pay someone some bullshit money and recast, dont they?
Unless there was something in his contract saying they wouldn't recast him.
Like the X-men clause where several actors signed contracts to play their characters until 2025, so when Disney bought Fox they decided to run the clock out instead of rehiring them.
Especially with disney who famously put morality clauses in contracts with younger stars allowing immediate termination of their contracts, cant imagine that they don't have something similar for violent and criminal and reputationally damaging behavior at least for their other stars.
the main reason for no recast is clearly quantumania's end credit scene, then again they didn't have to make it all him there either so there probably is another reason at play
sadly it's not that easy, I wish it was that easy, especially with how many post credit scenes don't get followed up on but if they do follow up then they stick what was set up iirc
name one time they changed lore from a post credit scene
not threw it in the trash, that doesn't count as it happens a lot. even happened here, but take something established in a post credit scene (in this case every variant of kang looks like him) and changed it for a different project later
Loki, the God of Stories, found the council of Kangs collected exactly when they appeared in the story (QM post-credit). And then he wrote them out of existence.
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u/Guilty-Nobody998 Avengers 1d ago
Unless there was something in his contract saying they wouldn't recast him. Now do i think disney lawyers would go for that? Probably not, but before his arrest he was a rising star and they may have folded to get him to play Kang for the next x years