I agree with your overall point -- looking at his entire body of work, I'd argue Jack Kirby wasn't actually a superhero fan -- but plenty of professions make having a certain knowledge set or skill a -prerequisite- for hiring and wouldn't consider anyone who didn't already have it.
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I agree with your overall point -- looking at his entire body of work, I'd argue Jack Kirby wasn't actually a superhero fan -- but plenty of professions make having a certain knowledge set or skill a -prerequisite- for hiring and wouldn't consider anyone who didn't already have it.
Where did that come from? Nobody said anything about disdain. Yes, it's important to love your work, but what I'm trying to get across is that you can learn to love something. You can discover something new and become a fan of it through working on it. It makes no sense to assume you had to be a fan from the beginning, because that ignores the simple fact that people can learn new things and build new bonds.
And fandom doesn't have to be limited to a specific series or work, but can be more about its overall genre or style or inspirations. Last year, I was offered the chance to pitch to a new novel project, something I had no prior familiarity with, but whose genre and approach were a perfect fit for my sensibilities, and which drew its inspiration from earlier works that I am an admirer of. I didn't get the gig the first time around, but I'm really hoping for another chance, since it's something I'd be excited to work on. And I didn't need prior knowledge of it to develop that excitement.
My comment about "disdain" came from X-Men 97 showrunner Beau Demayo's claim that The Witcher's writing staff would openly mock the source material. That's not someone I would want to adapt a property I care for. You don't necessarily have to previously have been a fan of it, but have some basic respect for it.
And it seems, to back up your point, they MAY have lost their acting lead as part of it. Reading between the lines...
Depends. There are a lot of productions where the writer-producers visit the set regularly and work closely with the actors, and others where they don't -- such as those where the writing staff is based in Hollywood while the filming takes place in Vancouver, Toronto, Atlanta, etc. I don't know enough about The Witcher to know where its writing and production are based, though.
From Cavill, after season 1:
“As far as the preparation goes, coming into this, I wanted the character to have a closer relationship to the character in the books, I wanted him to be more book accurate. And so it was more to do with making sure and campaigning for him to sound more intellectual, more philosophical, and to have an emotional side as well, rather than just be a grumpy snowman. Every day I was pushing this stuff as far as prep goes…At the present he can be a little uncommunicative. And I'm obviously working on that.”
I am aware that Luke Hemsworth will be the new star of "The Witcher". However, is the MCU planning for Chris Hemsworth to appear in more movies as Thor after "Thor: Love and Thunder"?
Liam is in the Witcher.
No idea of Chris (or Luke for that matter) will be Thor again.
On IMDB, Chris is slated to be in Secret Wars.
I don't think we've gotten official word either way, beyond the text at the end of Love & Thunder.
Wait, what? I never heard that. Do you have a source for that claim?
Huh, their source is Deadline (even though they don't link to the specific report...) so I'm surprised we didn't see this news reported earlier.
Might Marvel’s Wonder Man look remarkably like DC’s Black Manta? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...marvel-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii-cast-1235244373/
I've been having so much fun on a Marvel fans page on Facebook triggering the fragile white daffodil crowd who are up in arms over this news. Sometimes I have too much fun doing that.
I'm getting more of a Dr. Manhattan vibe, personally.
I like the actor though a lot, though, bring him into the fold!