Can you imagine if Midnighter and Apollo were played by Ben Afflec and Henry Cavil

Maybe one thing you could do with Jenny is have it be that once their century ends, they resume aging like normal, so that could justify a slightly older actress as she's now aged to be biologically 35-40 despite being 120 years old

No Karen gillian for Jenny? Shes a Gunn friend, shes from the U.K. And she can definitely pull off cynicism and toughness. And shes got that look that seems both youthful and aged at the same time somehow.

I was thinking Matt Bomer as Apollo and Zachary Quinto as Midnighter, but I like your casting.

Lee Pace and Luke Evans as Apollo and Midnighter is CHEF’s KISS. Kaluuya as Hawksmore would rock it.

I can kind of see how James Gunn may be building towards Kingdom Come, with The Authority and The Elite leading the escalation of violent heroes to Magog and the rest of those characters. I’m excited to see if that actually happens, ‘cause it’d be so cool to see in live action.

I had no idea about this team beforehand, but the way you describe Jack Hawksmoor feels like Jon Bernthal to me. his physicality and intensity in Punisher feels like Jack, and I feel like he could nail the gritty dad aspect

Jack's superpower sounds really cool and I'm sure James Gunn can find a way to use his powers in mind-blowing ways. This is really exciting stuff.

My theory for the Authority is that they’ll be introduced in Superman Legacy, get their own movie to flesh them out a bit and then we’ll get a Superman vs The Elite type story with them taking the Elite’s place

A Daniel Kaluuya Hawksmoore would be really interesting. If so, I'd love it if they started him off as the Spirit of Liverpool. I want a whole SpiderPunk movie someday.

i think tom hardy should play midnighter-- he deserves to be able to kiss a man on screen!!!

Jenny Sparks could be called something like "The Spirit of the Modern Era". Covers the 20th century, but can just bleed into now without feeling too odd.

Luke Evans and Lee Pace nails it…superb choices. Luke MacFarlane is also a great choice for Midnighter. You should see him in Killjoys, great action and at times menacing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😎

For Jenny Sparks, there's also the version from the recent reboot, The Wild Storm. She's over 100 years old and has powers tied to whatever the current technological trends are. She can jump into or out of phones or television screens and travel through the internet. She's kind of a combination of Sparks and Quantum and has a pretty unique powerset that's never really been done before, which is a huge plus in this industry. I think it would be pretty neat to see this version in live action.

Grifter is actually Redhood mixed with Gambit, with a little Mavrick thrown in. (Because Jim Lee really likes trench coats and guns, and doesn’t like drawing noses)

It's kinda funny he wanted Matt Bomer to play a Superman type because he actually has played Superman in Superman: Unbound

I knew Lee Pace would be your pick for Apollo. He is the perfect choice in my book. He’s got the look and the vibe nailed.

Luke Evans and Lee Pace... perfection.

Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I have a feeling the Authority could change superhero movies in the same way the Authority changed the landscape of superhero comics in the 2000s. An Authority movie has been needed for years, and maybe now is the right time.

I am a huge Authority fan. I’m so freaking pumped for an Authority Superman movie. It’s pretty much my dream film.

Just like the GOTG I never heard of these guys until the movie was announced, hope they can have as strong a debut!

I hope you eventually get to casting a Batman, I feel it is quite hard considering Gunn is looking for someone around the age of Superman but not as young

I gotta say. This is the one part of Gunn’s universe that makes me nervous. Like The Authority in phase 1?!? With a young Superman??

Jenny Quantum became Jenny Quark for a while in the comic books so you may still have your rhythm. As for fancasting Midnighter and Apollo, I’ve been doing it for 20 years (in my head) and none of the choices hit me as hard as Pace and Evans. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than seeing countless posts on twitter casting willowy 20-something as men that are meant to be Middle Aged and built like brick houses? By far. I’d be very happy if these were the choices.

What if they approach Jenny Sparks differently. Make her be played by an old actress, she doesn’t die after the year 2000 but she loses more power as the years pass by. She could become an adversary turned mentor figure to a young Superman (like Yondu in Guardians). She still gets the responsible yet spunky characteristic but with the weight of aging, imagine what could happen if we continue Steve Rogers post-end game (which would have been an interesting watch).

I feel like Jonathan Groff should have been part of the Midnighter/Apollo discussion - but super solid choices as always though! Jodie Comer as Jenny is spot on!

It’s a shame The Boys came out first and stole soo many aspects of The Authority. Warren Ellis is a criminally underrated writer.

An essential read for Jenny Sparks is the Stormwatch three-part arc "Change or Die," (Stormwatch Vol. 1 Issues 48-50) where Stormwatch runs up against a very Justice League/Society style group of superpowered individuals attempting to rapidly and massively change human society (and are in-universe Jenny's inspiration for forming The Authority). A key anchor of that story is Jenny's past relationship with the leader/figurehead of the other team, an explicit Superman clone called "The High." I don't think this will happen, but it would be incredibly fun if Gunn leaned into this story and gave Jenny and Superman a similar relationship as Jenny did with The High, maybe even reversing the roles so Superman has Jenny's role in "Change or Die" and Jenny has The High's role of leading a powerful group of supers attempting to change the world. And "Change or Die" is a great story period.

Tbh all the authority members have such awesome character design. I especially like Apollo

Ever since Gunn announced they were doing this movie ive always been intrigued by it. Now after this video im staring to get pretty hyped for it.

I really hope they get Jack's unique physicality right! Punching and kicking faces right off the bad guys and his acrobatic agility should play well if done right!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that someone shouted out Pushing Daisies. Loved that show

I’m not familiar with the comics so I don’t know how much this would mess with the canon, but I think the “adapting Jenny” problem could be fixed by making her technology-based rather than electricity-based. Jenny being the spirit of the 21st century as a younger millennial/Gen Zer who influences people and the world through social media in a Black Mirror-y way would be cool. As for casting, Georgia Hirst seems perfect IMO.

Love your videos, man. I needed a new channel to binge and ended up watching three of your full length essays last night.

This is phenomenal fan casting- might be my favorite fan casting you've done so far! Lee Pace and Luke Evans as Apollo and Midnighter feels like PERFECTION??

I really liked the brief segue into superhero phonetics. And your explanation of the Authority comics really made me want to check them out.

This is your best casting video yet! Each time you announced your winner, it was a surprise, but also the perfect choice.

You really sold me on The Authority, characters actors and all!! Bravo!

This was a great video, the art of these comics is amazing. I missed the authority series but may start reading it now.

This is such a top tier casting, great job!!!

I can’t believe we had the same picks for two of these (Midnighter and Jenny Sparks) and my picks for Jack Hawksmoor (Joel Egerton) and Apollo (Matt Bomer) were in your runner up lists. I love the pick of Lee Pace as Apollo by the way. Great video. Can’t wait to see who you cast as the rest of the team!

They should cast me for all the roles actually.

Great picks, really nailed this one.

What you said about Superhero names is very useful.

I'm loving these fancasting videos :)

Been waiting for this since you posted about it on Twitter.

I think Matt Boomer would also be a great Midnighter, although he already is in Doom Patrol, I doubt that is in the DCEU, and you barley see him. He plays crazy well as seen in his role in The Nice Guys, he’s great in Doom Patrol, he’s very charming too.

Can you please do some kind of video on the phonetics of superhero names? Because that section of this video blew my mind, and I need answers on that incredible correlation.

Love your casting choices 😊

I hope they pull some of the fresh ideas introduced in The Wild Storm by Warren Ellis. It was such a fun fresh take on all of the Wildstorm characters. I liked the idea of Jenny Sparks as the earth’s defense system, with The Doctor as the earth’s repair system.

Your two favorite Apollos went to high school together.

That city kaiju would be awesome to see on screen (as long as they take their time with cgi)

I never considered that logic on the names! Brilliant!

Very glad you put me on to Jack, seems like such a complex character that could be played out in so many different ways

Great vid!

Maybe for Spiderman video you could make who could be his new friends during college. While it likely that Zendeya will return as Michelle, I feel like it would be interesting to see other charaters that Peter would interact and befriend. Wither they be friends, other heroes or love interest. here would be my top ten charaters I would like to see in a new trilogy. 10) Jean DeWolff 9) Randy Robertson 8) John Jonah Jameson III (Man-Wolf) 7) Martha Franklin 6) Johney Storm (Human Torch) 5) Cindy Moon (Silk) 4) Sophia Sanduval (Chat) 3) Angelica Jones (Firestar) 2) Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake (Iceman) 1) Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat)

I could see the authority movie being “superman: what’s so funny about truth, justice, and the American way” but just merging the elite and the authority

17:56 bro look at that shot, it's gotta be Billy Butcher himself, Karl Urban.

I would love a fancasting video about Wonder Woman and the other Amazons and side characters, maybe a couple villains.

I think it's pretty funny that in this video you bring up 2 actors who have voiced transformers in the rebooted Bumblebee movie universe, truly tf touches everything

19:55 idk about Midnighter and Apollo being around before Superman, I’d like to imagine that Apollo was a Superman fanboy which is why his suit is so similar to Clark’s and his willingness to go through the experiments that gave him his powers

Lee Pace in Holt and Catch Fire is fantastic. Huge fan of him and he has played a huge range

Haven’t got to see part 2 yet, but do you think they’ll make Swift Thanagarian? I could see them using her to subtly start setting up Hawkman/ Hawkgirl/ Hawkworld stuff.

So... Midnighter is a mentat? I mean... His brain works like a a super computer that can calculate the outcome of future events, right? Just like a mentat!

Love these videos ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Jenny could be the The spirit of technology like they did in 2018 wild storm reboot

Thanks for breaking down the Authority. I now understand why Gunn wants to put them on the big screen.

this is the first time I've heard about this team and they are so interesting

As soon as The Authority was announced I thought of Emma Mackey as Jenny Sparks.

I have a feeling we'll see some of the Elite characters in the Authority.

I was shouting Lee Pace at my screen during the Apollo section and I was very pleasantly surprised

The authority look like such a fun team I’m super excited

11:56 Elle Fanning's English accent is flawless! And The Great is amazing, thanks for the shout out! Huzzah!

You saying all the heroes' names for your point about syllables sounds like you're doing a superhero version of the Pokerap, I find that hilarious

Here we go again. I watch one of these videos and immediately dive into the filmography of the fan casting winners, fall in love with them and now I can't think of a better actors that will play these roles than them

You left off one option... she could be Jenny Sparks, spirit of the 20th century who has give up her title and began aging again at 2000 (instead of dying). This would let you cast a mid 40s actress (a criminally underrepresented demographic). I do think that the Authority will be a mix of characters rather than a direct port of the crew from the Authority v Superman comic... I hope you talk more about the characters that might replace Wildstorm characters for better recognition (like Midnight might get dropped in favor of a different character just to avoid the Batman comparisons for example... though I think that's unlikely).

Thanks Mandoe

ur my new favourite youtube channel.

This casting is fantastic.

The Millar discussion really was just perfect timing

Wasn’t Apollo in a Netflix superhero show recently I was thinking of Jupiter’s legacy nvm

I think Matt Bomer would be a sick Midnighter. Just saying…

We love Joel! Also both you and (the other recaster guy) picked Joel as roles

An entire video about superhero names would be very nice

Idris Elba could play Jack. He’s older, more grizzled and noir-like. He’s also worked with James before, which is always a plus.

CRAZY that you listed nearly all of Daniel Kaluuya's film roles lol but even his breakout role in black mirror was about the same rebelliousness

Wait a minute Nando…. I watched the Superman video on my break at work, went to nebula to catch the authority vid. Came back from work and my brain broke looking at the thumbnail

Haven't you consider Babs Olusanmokun for the role of Jack. I love him in Strange New Worlds

I'm a urban planner and the concept of Jack's powers is really interesting. Might have to check this comic oit

Bomer actually for midnighter would be solid with lee pace as apollo

Crazy that Nando just broke out the PokeRap mid video.

I had Bruce Campbell in mind for Midnighter, the glee, insanity and charm et flawlessly projects would be very fitting

Somehow I wanna hear a full length Poké-Rap style song consisting only of super hero names now

Such great heroes

Jenny Sparks can be both the Spirit of the 20th Century and alive in the 21st Century and have Electronic powers and be the leader of the Authority. Simply make her immortal. Make Her struggles and Arc relate to the fact that she is the spirit of a century long past. She is an outcast, who has to lead a team to save a world in which she doesn't belong in

You should do more stuff on the Great Lakes avengers (on nebula or not)

Nando: Let's see if i can do this in a minute KZfaq: here's an unskipable ad

Yup. I was thinking Luke Evans since the start of your runthrough. He is a bit on the old side though. Hard to do more than one movie with him without him aging out of the physicality of it.

Ok, so I was going to propose to just reinterpret Jenny as a spirit of 21 Century but just make her powers tie to something electronic but still tie to the era, and I thought the best way to do this is to make it about cyberspace aka, internet/social media. But to my surprise DC actually already did what I was thinking. They made the Wild Storm reboot series in 2017 when they introduce a rebooted version of Jenny, now called Jenny Mei Sparks who seems to be sort of amalgam of both Sparks and Quanton, and yes and she's now a spirit of the internet called "techne". So, she could be used for the Authority movie.

When will part 2 of The Authority fancast be out on KZfaq?