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The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX

I hope she has the chops to act opposite Mount...he had some pretty strong female costars on Hell on Wheels.
 
Also, to manage expectations...I don't see them getting Anson in a wet suit with a tuning fork on his forehead, but we'll see....
 
The rest of the Royal Family... and Lockjaw!

Eme Ikwuakor (Concussion) as Gorgon
Gorgon is the cousin of Black Bolt and a member of the royal family who is the leader of Attilan’s military. With super strong legs, complete with hooves, he can generate destructive seismic waves with a single stomp. The ying to his cousin Karnak’s yang, Gorgon would rather fight than talk to solve his problems.

Isabelle Cornish (Australia Day) as Crystal
Crystal is Medusa's sister and the youngest member of the royal family who has the ability to control the elements. Impetuous and independent she is also deeply devoted to her family.

Mike Moh (Empire) as Triton
Triton is Black Bolt's cousin who is calm under pressure and supremely athletic. His gift is his fish — like the ability to live underwater.

Sonya Balmores (Soul Surfer) as Auran
Auran is head of the Royal Guards on Attilan, a capable and no-nonsense woman. She is fiercely loyal to the King of Attilan.

Ellen Woglom (Californication) as an undisclosed character
The mystery character is smart, intense and focused — so focused that oftentimes social skills take a back seat. Her job at a private aerospace company is her life, second only to her passion for all things space and lunar. She’s primed to be swept up in an adventure.

Lockjaw as Crystal’s 2,000-pound canine companion
The sizable pooch has the ability to teleport.

"With Eme, Isabelle, Mike, Sonya and Ellen portraying the rest of our leading roles, we have a strong cast that is going to add tremendous depth to our Royal Family,” Buck said.
 
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Not familiar with any of the actors. I'm assuming since they included Lockjaw here that must mean he'll be pretty significant in the episodes. Wow, 2,000lbs, I didn't realize he was that big. Hopefully $10M an episode means they'll be able to do him justice.
Christopher said:
Medusa has been cast:

http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/01/inhumans-serinda-swan-medusa/

It's Serinda Swan, who was Zatanna on Smallville a few years back. That's cool, because I thought she was utterly gorgeous there. Too bad they couldn't get a natural redhead, but then, it's not as if Medusa's hair could be real anyway...
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This is another great piece of casting, she really did some great stuff in the second season of Graceland in particular, when her character was really put through hell.
 
It's a nicely diverse cast. I'm glad that Ken Leung isn't the only Asian actor in the cast, since casting him as the "ultimate martial artist" character would've been kind of a stereotype otherwise.
 
That's been known for some time. The whole reason the show exists is to debut on IMAX for Labor Day weekend.
 
I wonder if this may be the future of big budget TV series. Release select episodes in the theater to offset the budget cost.
 
TV shows have been releasing episodes theatrically for decades, though often just overseas. Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century released their premieres as feature films. A number of The Man from UNCLE 2-parters were released overseas as features, with new scenes adding more violence and skin; the pilot was also released as a feature with a whole new subplot filmed to expand it, and that subplot was later incorporated into an episode of the show. I think some Mission: Impossible 2-parters were released overseas as movies too, though I don't think they added material. And Gene Roddenberry considered expanding Star Trek's first pilot into a standalone feature film before he ended up incorporating it into "The Menagerie."

Then there's the rather sleazy case of 77 Sunset Strip. Roy Huggins created the show based on his own earlier prose fiction, but the president of Warner Bros. gave the pilot a limited theatrical release in the Caribbean shortly before the TV premiere, purely so that he could claim the show was based on a movie and thereby cheat Huggins out of his creator credit.
 
The only person cast who I've seen before is Medusa's actress. I don't really have an opinion on her, since her only role I've seen is Zatanna on Smallville, and the character was written badly enough that I can't form an opinion on the actress's abilities. Still, I'm excited for the show. I'm very curious to see what they'll do with Lockjaw, I hope it looks good.

Edit: Nevermind. I just found out the idiot from Iron Fist is running this show. I'll still watch, because I'm a big fan of the characters in the comics, but now I'm assuming they'll have no powers and Lockjaw is just the name of Black Bolt's car. My expectations are so low right now that even just Medusa having read hair or Lockjaw actually being an animal will probably blow my mind.
 
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kirk55555 said:
The only person cast who I've seen before is Medusa's actress.
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Don't know if it would suit your tastes, but I'd encourage anyone to check out Hell on Wheels. The complete series is on Netflix streaming in the US. Colm Meaney is the second-billed lead on the show, if that carries any weight...exercising his dramatic chops playing a love-to-hate-him crooked railroad baron.
 
Hell on Wheels is great, and definitely worth checking out.
If you want to see more of Serinda Swan I'd also recommend Graceland, it's a great show. Like I said, her best performances were during the second season, but just as a warning her arc there does deal with sexual slavery and rape, so if those things bother you might want to skip it. If it helps, I thought they handled it pretty well, and it is not at all exploitive.
 
Nerys Myk said:
So how is Iron Fist? How'd you get to see it before the rest of us?
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Don't have to see it to know the guy's stance on superheroes. As far as I can tell, he's like the Smallville people (no costumes, no powers or elements he considers too "unrealistic") but without the eventual lightening up that show had where it started including actual comic book stuff. I am completely done with anti-comic book "grounded" superhero stuff. Even just doing that with Iron Fist is asinine and takes away some of the really interesting things about him, but for Inhumans it will literally kill the entire thing. You can't hire someone who dislikes the comics and comic book stuff to make a show that includes a woman with tentacle hair and a 2000 pound teleporting dog. Well, apparently you can, but its basically the worst decision a Marvel production has ever made.

There are people in show business who are talented and don't hate the source material. Marvel sometimes hires them, but apparently the Netflix/tv shows (not counting AoS) are where they hire the people who hate the material to adapt that material into shows. Like I said, I enjoy the Inhumans too much to not watch, but I'm officially watching for the trainwreck, I don't consider it actually being a good adaptation as even a remote possibility at this point.
 
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