[Fan List: What If: Dream Casting] Film: All Female Avengers (MCU)
[Avengers] _ (ENTRY: WORK IN PROGRESS)
News: Article: SyFyWire: "Brie Larson and her fellow MCU heroines have approached Kevin Feige about all-female Avengers movie" - 10/10/19)
For more on this topic, check out:
Google: "Avengers + All Female" (Articles / Links: ex. SyFyWire, Variety Magazine, Glamour (Magazine))
CHARACTERS
Protagonists:
Established Characters / Cast (MCU; Sony's Marvel Universe + Fox's X-Men Universe = Added to: MCU):
Lila Barton (Ava Russo - Film: "Avengers: Endgame" --Clint Barton / Hawkeye's daughter) (--Or: Katherine 'Kate' Bishop / Hawkeye - TV: Upcoming Disney+ series - Hailee Steinfeld is in talks for the role), Tandy Bowen / Dagger (Olivia Holt - TV: "Marvel's Cloak + Dagger"), Sharon Carter / Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp), Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Jane Foster / Thor, Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Agent (or Commander) Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter - TV: "Marvel's Jessica Jones"), Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Nico Minoru / Sister Grimm (Lyrica Okano - TV: "Marvel's Runaways"), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Okoye (Danai Gurira), Monica Rambeau / Photon / Pulsar / Spectrum (--Adult version of the character is going to be featured in the upcoming Disney+ series, "WandaVision" (2021) - Played by: Teyonah Parris), Shuri (Letitia Wright), Morgan Stark (Alexandra Rachael Rabe - Film: "Avengers: Endgame" --Note: According to Wikipedia + Vanity Fair, there was an older version of the character casted, but then was cut: Katherine Lanford. Depending on if/when they do an all female Avengers film, she could be featured then... Perhaps, as a next gen. / new "Iron Man" of sorts...), Ava Starr / Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen - Film: "Ant-Man and the Wasp"), Neena Thurman / Domino (Zazie Beetz - Film: "Deadpool 2"), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Janet (and/or) Hope Van Dyne / Wasp (Michelle Pfeiffer + Evangeline Lilly)
Suggested Characters (Not used before in the MCU and/or re-cast/way to work into the MCU):
Ava Ayala / White Tiger, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock / Psylocke, Special Agent Abigail Brand (Commendar of S.W.O.R.D.) (--Note: Comics / Character (+ also: Armor) created by Joss Whedon / John Cassaday), Clea, Lorna Dane / Polaris, Clarice Fong Ferguson / Blink, Emma Frost / White Queen, Hisako Ichiki / Armor, Angelica 'Angel' Jones / Firestar, Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, Laura Kinney / X-23 / Wolverine (--Note: Not the version from - Film: "Logan"), Anna Marie LeBeau / Rogue, Ororo Monroe / Storm, Elektra Natchios, Phyla-Vell / Quasar / Captain Marvel / Martyr, Katherine Anne 'Kitty' Pryde / Shadowcat, Silver Sablinova / Silver Sable (--Note: Character was going to be featured in a film with Black Cat called "Silver & Black", but that project got cancelled), Susan Storm-Richards / Invisible Woman, Cassandra Webb / Madame Web (--Note: or like Agent Web from TV: Animation: "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man")
Potential Team Leader(s):
Abigail Brand, Carol Danvers, Maria Hill, Ororo Monroe, Kitty Pryde, Sue Storm-Richards
Casting Ideas:
Abigail Brand: Cassidy Freeman (TV: "Smallville", "NCIS: New Orleans")
Betsy Braddock: Lexa Doig (TV: "Arrow"), Katrina Law (TV: "Arrow", "Hawaii Five-O")
Lorna Dane: Stephanie Beatriz (TV: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Allison Scagliotti (TV: "Warehouse 13")
Emma Frost: Claire Coffee (TV: "Grimm"), Ali Larter (TV: "Heroes")
Angel Jones: Sophia Lillis (Films: "It" / "It: Chapter Two") (--or: as Laura Kinney)
Anna Marie LeBeau: Lauren Cohan (TV: "Supernatural", "The Walking Dead")
Ororo Monroe: Lesley-Ann Brandt (TV: "The Librarians", "Lucifer"), Aurora Perrineau (TV: "Prodigal Son") (--Note: Daughter of Harold Perrineau)
Kitty Pryde: Alexis Bledel (TV: "Gilmore Girls"; Film: "Sin City"), Melissa Fumero (TV: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine") (--or: as Sue Storm-Richards)
Sue Storm-Richards: Freema Agyeman (TV: "Doctor Who", "New Amsterdam"), Joanne Kelly (TV: "Warehouse 13"), Rose McIver (TV: "iZombie", "Once Upon A Time"), Perdita Weeks (Film: "Ready Player One"; TV: "Magnum P.I." - Reboot)
Cassandra Webb: Kelly Bishop (TV: "Gilmore Girls"), Ellen Burstyn (Films: "The Age of Adaline", "Lucy in the Sky"; TV: "House of Cards")
Antagonists:
Suggest Characters:
Amora (or: Sylvie Lushton) / Enchantress, Frances Louise Barrison / Shriek (--Note: Character's going to be featured in the upcoming "Venom" sequel / film), Raven Darkholme / Mystique (--Note: As a villain or a hero like in the prequel films, played by Jennifer Lawrence), Morgan le Fay, Malice (Entity; Team: Marauders; Characters has posessed / victims: ex. Polaris), (Dr. Olivia 'Liv' Octavius --Female version of Doc Ock (Doctor Octopus) in Miles Morales' universe --from the Film: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"), (Female version of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin), Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike, Monica Rappaccini / Scientist Supreme (of A.I.M.), Ophelia Sarkissian / Viper / Madam Hydra, (Female version of Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom)
Casting Ideas:
Frances Louise Barrison: Pauley Perrette (TV: "NCIS")
Raven Darkholme: Charlize Theron (Films: "The Italian Job", "Snow White and the Huntsman", "Prometheus", "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Atomic Blonde") (--or as: Ophelia Sarkissian; female version of Victor Von Doom)
CREW / CREATIVE TEAM
Director(s):
Kathryn Bigelow (Films: "The Hurt Locker", "Zero Dark Thirty", "Detriot"), Anna Boden (+ Ryan Fleck - Film: "Captain Marvel"), Rachel Talalay (TV: "Supernatural", "Haven", "Doctor Who", Arrow-verse, "Sherlock")
Writer(s):
Julie + Shawna Benson (TV: "The 100"; Comics: "Batgirl and the Birds of Prey" - DC Rebirth), Kelly Sue DeConnick (Comics: "Avengers Assemble", "Captain Marvel", "Pretty Deadly"; TV: "Emerald City" - 1.6: 'Beautiful Wickedness', 2017, NBC), Jane Espenson (TV: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Warehouse 13", "Battlestar Galactica" / "Caprica", "Torchwood", "Once Upon A Time"), Sera Gamble (TV: "Supernatural", "The Magicians"), Angela Kang (TV: "The Walking Dead"), Marti Noxon (TV: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" / "Angel", "Sharp Objects"; Film: "Fright Night" - 2011), Gail Simone (Comics: "Birds of Prey", "Wonder Woman", "Batgirl", "Domino" (Marvel); TV: DCAU - Episodes (+ Animated Feature: "Wonder Woman", 2009))
STORYLINE(S)
From: Comics:
"Operation: Galactic Storm" (Avengers; Mark Gruenwald, Bob Harras, Fabian Nicieza, March - May 1992) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia), "House of M" (Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel, June - November 2005) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia) (--Note: Inspired by / take certain aspects / elements from this storyline like the issue of Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch becoming unstable and having and using the ability to warp reality (and being manipulated by others for bad). Teams of Avengers / X-Men debating on the fate of the character... Not sure how well this storyline from the comics could work considering the changes to certain characters like the Maximoff siblings for the MCU and depends on how the X-Men get worked into this universe...Could make the plot more Avengers driven than X-Men...), "Avengers: The Enemy Within'" (Avengers / Captain Marvel event; Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick; 2013) (Info: Marvel Database, Amazon), "Avengers: Standoff!" (Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, Jesus Saiz, March - April 2016) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia) (--Note: Maybe (add) feature the Thunderbolts (a superhero team made up of reformed supervilliains) or could be hinted at/discussed during or lead up to at the end in the adaptation/film...?)
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(Non-Avengers-Related)
Images:
IMDB: IMDB Picks (Gallery): "(The Most) Extreme Makeup Transformations" (Homepage Feature, 11/26) (--Ex. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Damron on "Star Trek: Enterprise" (3.11: 'Carpenter Street', 2003 - Links: IMDB, Memory Alpha (Star Trek Wiki): Episode, Character; YouTube)
Recommendations:
Films:
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" (Marielle Heller, 2019)
"Frozen II" (Animation; Buck / Jennifer Lee, 2019)
"Last Christmas" (Feig, 2019, UK / US)
"Motherless Brooklyn" (Norton, 2019)
Release Dates:
Films (in Theaters):
(3/6/20): "Onward" (Scanlon, 2020, Pixar Animation Studios)
(7/19/20): "Soul" (Docter, 2020, Pixar Animation Studios)
TV:
(TBA/2020): "Stargirl" (2020 - ; DC Universe (Streaming Service) / TheCW) (Series Premiere)
TV Schedule:
(12/3): "How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming" (Animation; Short; Johnson, 2019, DreamWorks Animation) (--Set shortly after: Film: "How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World", 2019) (--Will air on NBC)
(12/5): "Supernatural" (15.7: 'Last Call', 2019) (Guest Star: Christian Kane - TV: "Angel", "Leverage", "The Librarians")
(12/8): Arrow-verse: Crossover Event: "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (Part 1 Begins - 9/7c - TheCW)
(1/1/20): "Doctor Who" (Series (Season) 12 Premiere - BBC One / UK; US / BBC America: TBA / Early 2020) (Trailer(s): YouTube)
News: Article: SyFyWire: "Brie Larson and her fellow MCU heroines have approached Kevin Feige about all-female Avengers movie" - 10/10/19)
For more on this topic, check out:
Google: "Avengers + All Female" (Articles / Links: ex. SyFyWire, Variety Magazine, Glamour (Magazine))
CHARACTERS
Protagonists:
Established Characters / Cast (MCU; Sony's Marvel Universe + Fox's X-Men Universe = Added to: MCU):
Lila Barton (Ava Russo - Film: "Avengers: Endgame" --Clint Barton / Hawkeye's daughter) (--Or: Katherine 'Kate' Bishop / Hawkeye - TV: Upcoming Disney+ series - Hailee Steinfeld is in talks for the role), Tandy Bowen / Dagger (Olivia Holt - TV: "Marvel's Cloak + Dagger"), Sharon Carter / Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp), Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Jane Foster / Thor, Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Agent (or Commander) Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter - TV: "Marvel's Jessica Jones"), Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Nico Minoru / Sister Grimm (Lyrica Okano - TV: "Marvel's Runaways"), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Okoye (Danai Gurira), Monica Rambeau / Photon / Pulsar / Spectrum (--Adult version of the character is going to be featured in the upcoming Disney+ series, "WandaVision" (2021) - Played by: Teyonah Parris), Shuri (Letitia Wright), Morgan Stark (Alexandra Rachael Rabe - Film: "Avengers: Endgame" --Note: According to Wikipedia + Vanity Fair, there was an older version of the character casted, but then was cut: Katherine Lanford. Depending on if/when they do an all female Avengers film, she could be featured then... Perhaps, as a next gen. / new "Iron Man" of sorts...), Ava Starr / Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen - Film: "Ant-Man and the Wasp"), Neena Thurman / Domino (Zazie Beetz - Film: "Deadpool 2"), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Janet (and/or) Hope Van Dyne / Wasp (Michelle Pfeiffer + Evangeline Lilly)
Suggested Characters (Not used before in the MCU and/or re-cast/way to work into the MCU):
Ava Ayala / White Tiger, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock / Psylocke, Special Agent Abigail Brand (Commendar of S.W.O.R.D.) (--Note: Comics / Character (+ also: Armor) created by Joss Whedon / John Cassaday), Clea, Lorna Dane / Polaris, Clarice Fong Ferguson / Blink, Emma Frost / White Queen, Hisako Ichiki / Armor, Angelica 'Angel' Jones / Firestar, Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, Laura Kinney / X-23 / Wolverine (--Note: Not the version from - Film: "Logan"), Anna Marie LeBeau / Rogue, Ororo Monroe / Storm, Elektra Natchios, Phyla-Vell / Quasar / Captain Marvel / Martyr, Katherine Anne 'Kitty' Pryde / Shadowcat, Silver Sablinova / Silver Sable (--Note: Character was going to be featured in a film with Black Cat called "Silver & Black", but that project got cancelled), Susan Storm-Richards / Invisible Woman, Cassandra Webb / Madame Web (--Note: or like Agent Web from TV: Animation: "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man")
Potential Team Leader(s):
Abigail Brand, Carol Danvers, Maria Hill, Ororo Monroe, Kitty Pryde, Sue Storm-Richards
Casting Ideas:
Abigail Brand: Cassidy Freeman (TV: "Smallville", "NCIS: New Orleans")
Betsy Braddock: Lexa Doig (TV: "Arrow"), Katrina Law (TV: "Arrow", "Hawaii Five-O")
Lorna Dane: Stephanie Beatriz (TV: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Allison Scagliotti (TV: "Warehouse 13")
Emma Frost: Claire Coffee (TV: "Grimm"), Ali Larter (TV: "Heroes")
Angel Jones: Sophia Lillis (Films: "It" / "It: Chapter Two") (--or: as Laura Kinney)
Anna Marie LeBeau: Lauren Cohan (TV: "Supernatural", "The Walking Dead")
Ororo Monroe: Lesley-Ann Brandt (TV: "The Librarians", "Lucifer"), Aurora Perrineau (TV: "Prodigal Son") (--Note: Daughter of Harold Perrineau)
Kitty Pryde: Alexis Bledel (TV: "Gilmore Girls"; Film: "Sin City"), Melissa Fumero (TV: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine") (--or: as Sue Storm-Richards)
Sue Storm-Richards: Freema Agyeman (TV: "Doctor Who", "New Amsterdam"), Joanne Kelly (TV: "Warehouse 13"), Rose McIver (TV: "iZombie", "Once Upon A Time"), Perdita Weeks (Film: "Ready Player One"; TV: "Magnum P.I." - Reboot)
Cassandra Webb: Kelly Bishop (TV: "Gilmore Girls"), Ellen Burstyn (Films: "The Age of Adaline", "Lucy in the Sky"; TV: "House of Cards")
Antagonists:
Suggest Characters:
Amora (or: Sylvie Lushton) / Enchantress, Frances Louise Barrison / Shriek (--Note: Character's going to be featured in the upcoming "Venom" sequel / film), Raven Darkholme / Mystique (--Note: As a villain or a hero like in the prequel films, played by Jennifer Lawrence), Morgan le Fay, Malice (Entity; Team: Marauders; Characters has posessed / victims: ex. Polaris), (Dr. Olivia 'Liv' Octavius --Female version of Doc Ock (Doctor Octopus) in Miles Morales' universe --from the Film: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"), (Female version of Norman Osborn / Green Goblin), Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike, Monica Rappaccini / Scientist Supreme (of A.I.M.), Ophelia Sarkissian / Viper / Madam Hydra, (Female version of Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom)
Casting Ideas:
Frances Louise Barrison: Pauley Perrette (TV: "NCIS")
Raven Darkholme: Charlize Theron (Films: "The Italian Job", "Snow White and the Huntsman", "Prometheus", "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Atomic Blonde") (--or as: Ophelia Sarkissian; female version of Victor Von Doom)
CREW / CREATIVE TEAM
Director(s):
Kathryn Bigelow (Films: "The Hurt Locker", "Zero Dark Thirty", "Detriot"), Anna Boden (+ Ryan Fleck - Film: "Captain Marvel"), Rachel Talalay (TV: "Supernatural", "Haven", "Doctor Who", Arrow-verse, "Sherlock")
Writer(s):
Julie + Shawna Benson (TV: "The 100"; Comics: "Batgirl and the Birds of Prey" - DC Rebirth), Kelly Sue DeConnick (Comics: "Avengers Assemble", "Captain Marvel", "Pretty Deadly"; TV: "Emerald City" - 1.6: 'Beautiful Wickedness', 2017, NBC), Jane Espenson (TV: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Warehouse 13", "Battlestar Galactica" / "Caprica", "Torchwood", "Once Upon A Time"), Sera Gamble (TV: "Supernatural", "The Magicians"), Angela Kang (TV: "The Walking Dead"), Marti Noxon (TV: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" / "Angel", "Sharp Objects"; Film: "Fright Night" - 2011), Gail Simone (Comics: "Birds of Prey", "Wonder Woman", "Batgirl", "Domino" (Marvel); TV: DCAU - Episodes (+ Animated Feature: "Wonder Woman", 2009))
STORYLINE(S)
From: Comics:
"Operation: Galactic Storm" (Avengers; Mark Gruenwald, Bob Harras, Fabian Nicieza, March - May 1992) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia), "House of M" (Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel, June - November 2005) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia) (--Note: Inspired by / take certain aspects / elements from this storyline like the issue of Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch becoming unstable and having and using the ability to warp reality (and being manipulated by others for bad). Teams of Avengers / X-Men debating on the fate of the character... Not sure how well this storyline from the comics could work considering the changes to certain characters like the Maximoff siblings for the MCU and depends on how the X-Men get worked into this universe...Could make the plot more Avengers driven than X-Men...), "Avengers: The Enemy Within'" (Avengers / Captain Marvel event; Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick; 2013) (Info: Marvel Database, Amazon), "Avengers: Standoff!" (Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, Jesus Saiz, March - April 2016) (Info: Marvel Database, Wikipedia) (--Note: Maybe (add) feature the Thunderbolts (a superhero team made up of reformed supervilliains) or could be hinted at/discussed during or lead up to at the end in the adaptation/film...?)
__________
__________
(Non-Avengers-Related)
Images:
IMDB: IMDB Picks (Gallery): "(The Most) Extreme Makeup Transformations" (Homepage Feature, 11/26) (--Ex. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Damron on "Star Trek: Enterprise" (3.11: 'Carpenter Street', 2003 - Links: IMDB, Memory Alpha (Star Trek Wiki): Episode, Character; YouTube)
Recommendations:
Films:
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" (Marielle Heller, 2019)
"Frozen II" (Animation; Buck / Jennifer Lee, 2019)
"Last Christmas" (Feig, 2019, UK / US)
"Motherless Brooklyn" (Norton, 2019)
Release Dates:
Films (in Theaters):
(3/6/20): "Onward" (Scanlon, 2020, Pixar Animation Studios)
(7/19/20): "Soul" (Docter, 2020, Pixar Animation Studios)
TV:
(TBA/2020): "Stargirl" (2020 - ; DC Universe (Streaming Service) / TheCW) (Series Premiere)
TV Schedule:
(12/3): "How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming" (Animation; Short; Johnson, 2019, DreamWorks Animation) (--Set shortly after: Film: "How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World", 2019) (--Will air on NBC)
(12/5): "Supernatural" (15.7: 'Last Call', 2019) (Guest Star: Christian Kane - TV: "Angel", "Leverage", "The Librarians")
(12/8): Arrow-verse: Crossover Event: "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (Part 1 Begins - 9/7c - TheCW)
(1/1/20): "Doctor Who" (Series (Season) 12 Premiere - BBC One / UK; US / BBC America: TBA / Early 2020) (Trailer(s): YouTube)