Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass 2
Whereas the first Kick-Ass was wildly entertaining, 2013’s Kick-Ass
2 ultimately became a disappointment.
Many fans were anxious to see a franchise come out of the
sequel, yet the poor quality of the movie stopped the franchise’s potential in
its tracks.
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Understandably, actress Chloë Grace Moretz was disappointed by
how the movie turned out.
She even cut her ties with the franchise shortly after,
reportedly having no interest in returning for her Hit Girl spin-off.
“I love the franchise, I think the first movie was really,
really special,” Moretz said earlier this year.
“I wish the second one had been handled in a little bit of a
different way. Because I think we were all kind of looking forward to something
a little different than what happened with it all,” she stated.
Michael Shannon – Man
Of Steel
One of the worst parts about a disappointing superhero movie is
when it wastes the talent of an incredibly talented actor.
Man of Steel arguably did this with Michael Shannon, who played
the movie’s villain General Zod.
Though Shannon never truly came out to say he regretted the
movie, based on interviews, he seemed completely disinterested with the rest of
the franchise.
“I’m so utterly unconcerned with the outcome of that fight,”
Shannon said about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016. “So profoundly,
utterly unconcerned. I can’t even come up with a fake answer.”
Andrew Garfield – The
Amazing Spider-Man 2
One of Andrew Garfield’s biggest dreams came into fruition when
he was cast as Spider-Man, but evidently, it was not everything he thought it
would be.
Garfield was disappointed to learn that his depiction of
Spider-Man wouldn’t focus on the great superhero, and instead was focusing on
bringing in money for the franchise Sony wanted to create to compete with
Marvel.
“I found that really, really tricky,” said Garfield about the
struggle of playing Sony’s new version of Spider-Man. “I signed up to serve the
story, and to serve this incredible character that I’ve been dressing as since
I was three, and then it gets compromised and it breaks your heart… I got
heartbroken a little bit to a certain degree.”
Despite everything, Garfield still managed to give a great
performance as the web-slinging superhero.
It’s a real pity that Sony put his talents to waste.
Hugo Weaving – Captain
America: The First Avenger
Earlier this year, Marvel fans were overjoyed to see the return
of the villain Red Skull in Avengers: Infinity War, but were disappointed upon
learning that he was not portrayed by the original actor Hugo Weaving.
Unfortunately, Weaving simply had no interest in returning to
the role after his experience with Captain America: The First Avenger.
“It’s not something I would want to do again,” Weaving said a
year after the movie’s release. “I did sign up for a number of pictures and I
suppose, contractually, I would be obliged to, if they forced me to, but they
wouldn’t want to force someone to do it, if they didn’t want to. I think I’ve
done my dash with that sort of film.”
As this year has shown, Marvel did not force Weaving to return,
understanding Weaving’s distaste with the franchise.
Fortunately, Weaving’s absence didn’t hurt Infinity War too
much, as Red Skull’s make-up was able to properly disguise the new actor.
Terrence Howard – Iron
Man
Empire’s Terrence Howard was the original actor for Rhodey / War
Machine in 2008’s Iron Man, before he was replaced in 2010’s Iron Man 2 by Don
Cheadle.
However, the reason why Howard regrets the movie so much isn’t
because of the movie itself, but specifically his interaction with the movie’s
star, Robert Downey Jr.
After Howard helped Downey get the job for Iron Man, Downey
apparently successfully tried to take most of Howard’s paycheck for the sequel,
which seriously offended Howard.
“It turns out that the person I helped become Iron Man,” said
Howard. “When it was time to re-up for the second one, [he] took the money that
was supposed to go to me and pushed me out.”
Kate Mara – Fantastic 4
Kate Mara was one of the stars of 2015’s box office bomb
Fantastic 4, and overall, Kate Mara was quite disappointed with how it turned
out.
After reading the reviews for the movie, Mara became “a little
bit gun-shy” and decided to just not see the movie.
When the movie’s director Josh Trank took to Twitter to rant
about how 20th Century Fox, Mara admitted that she was “disappointed” by the
situation, likely being embarrassed with how things turned out.
“You don’t always have to learn some incredible life lesson when
making a such a movie. Sometimes it’s just what happens,” Mara said shortly
after the movie’s release.
Mickey Rourke – Iron
Man 2
The year 2010’s Iron Man 2 featured Mickey Rourke stepping in as
Iron Man’s new challenging foe, Whiplash.
Behind the scenes, Rourke took a number of leaps to give off the
best performance possible, but when Marvel cut a majority of his emotional
performance, he became rather upset.
“[It’s] too bad, but it’s their loss,” Rourke said about Marvel
cutting most of his material. “If they want to make mindless comic book movies,
then I don’t want to be a part of that.”
He continued: “I don’t want to have to care so much and work so
hard, and then fight them for intelligent reasoning, and just because they’re
calling the shots they… You know, I didn’t work for three months on the accent
and all the adjustments and go to Russia just so I could end up on the floor.”
“Because that can make somebody say at the end of the day, oh,
I’m just going to mail it in. But I’m not that kind of guy. I’m never going to
mail it in,” he stated.
George Clooney – Batman
& Robin
The 1997 trainwreck Batman & Robin is still not a movie that
audiences are willing to forgive, and it has become one of the biggest mistakes
in its star’s George Clooney’s career.
Clooney has admitted that he rushed into the movie a little to
quickly, and actually stopped doing blockbuster movies for a few years after
because of it.
“With hindsight it’s easy to look back at this and go, ‘Woah,
that was really s*** and I was really bad in it,’” Clooney said. “It was a
difficult film to be good in.”
“At that point I realized I’d better start picking better. My
next three movies were Out Of Sight, Three Kings, and O Brother, Where Art
Thou?,” he said.
Jared Leto – Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad disappointed audiences and critics alike, but it
also apparently disappointed one of the movie’s stars.
Jared Leto was rather upset with how Suicide Squad turned out,
mostly because the majority of his content was cut.
“Were there any [scenes] that didn’t get cut? I’m asking you,
were there any that didn’t get cut?” Leto ranted in an interview with IGN.
“There were so many scenes that got cut from the movie, I
couldn’t even start. I think that the Joker… we did a lot of experimentation on
the set, we explored a lot. There’s so much that we shot that’s not in the
film,” he stated.
During the movie’s production, Leto would regularly make
headlines based on how deep into the role he had gone, almost falling into
insanity itself.
Despite all of his work, DC still cut most of his content, so
it’s understandable that he would be rather irritated.
Ben Affleck – Daredevil
A number of DC fans were shocked when it was first announced
that Academy Award winner Ben Affleck had been cast as Batman for Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice.
However, the actor later revealed that a big reason why he took
the part was to help him move on from Daredevil, which he starred in and has
regretted ever since.
“Part of it was I wanted for once to get one of these movies and
do it right – to do a good version. I hate Daredevil so much,” Affleck said,
explaining why he took the role of Batman.
For better or for worse, Affleck has done a great job at making
people forget about his previous superhero role.
Now he just has to get even more people to forgive him for
playing Batman.
Ryan Reynolds – Green
Lantern & X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Before Deadpool released in 2016, Ryan Reynolds had quite a bit
of bad luck with superhero movies.
Both Green Lantern and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were total
disappointments, and Reynolds regularly points this out today in his Deadpool
movies.
Evidently, Reynolds didn’t even want to be in X-Men Origins:
Wolverine after reading the script, but appeared in it because Fox told him
they would find someone else to play Deadpool if he argued.
Dedicated to playing a proper Deadpool at some point down the
road, Reynolds stayed on, and it’s safe to say things may have paid off as he
has finally receive the Deadpool franchise he dreamed of.
Edward Norton – The
Incredible Hulk
The year 2008’s The Incredible Hulk is perhaps one of the lowest
rated movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it is largely due to its
star Edward Norton, who allegedly tried to force Marvel to use his script for
the movie that he delivered only a couple of weeks before production.
According to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, when they
decided to let Norton go from The Avengers, Norton was unable to appropriately
collaborate with others.
This is certainly not the first time this complaint has been
about the actor, as he has been described as hard to work with for nearly two
decades now.
Apparently, Norton is still not ready to get over his bad blood
with Marvel.
Just last month, Norton bad-mouthed Marvel at a Comedy Central
roast, still apparently furious about the experience.
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Agencies
