Glen Powell is likely to be Hollywood’s subsequent large motion star with The Working Man, however don’t count on him to play a superhero any time quickly. Whereas followers have been busy casting him of their dream Marvel or DC roles, Powell makes it clear that being a superhero simply isn’t on his radar.
The High Gun: Maverick actor is at the moment flexing his comedic muscular tissues in Chad Powers, a soccer comedy collection he co-created with Avengers: Doomsday author Michael Waldron. The present follows a washed-up soccer participant who reinvents himself utilizing prosthetics and a pretend id to get again within the recreation. Powell says the premise isn’t removed from a traditional comedian ebook transformation story.
“Michael Waldron and I created Chad Powers, and we at all times conceptualized that as a superhero story,” Powell instructed Collider. “There’s very a lot a Batman/Bruce Wayne factor occurring there. There’s the tremendous model of you after which there’s form of the model that you could sort of cover from the world.”
Regardless of drawing inspiration from Gotham’s caped crusader, Powell says he’s not itching to step into any spandex fits himself.
“I like the duality of superhero tales. I like the thought of secret identities. I like all that, however I can not say that there is one superhero particularly I am chasing,” he shared. “Look, the factor about superhero tales that I’ve at all times liked is it is just like the early days of one thing, constructing one thing.”
Whereas Powell appreciates the style’s storytelling energy, he admits the superhero vibe simply doesn’t match him. “I do not really feel, as an individual, like a superhero. As soon as somebody turns into tremendous, I form of sort of are inclined to not really feel, I do not know, the identical emotional connection.”
Nonetheless, there’s at all times a “what if” in terms of Hollywood casting. Waldron has even steered that Powell would make a killer Richard Rider, aka Nova, certainly one of Marvel’s cosmic heroes from the Nova Corps.
Sadly, these plans are at the moment stalled, so for now, Powell’s sticking to tasks that allow him present his vary with out taking up any sort of superhero roles.
Followers will subsequent see him sprinting for his life when The Working Man hits theaters on November 14.