I don’t think his acting style would work well as a lead for a tongue in cheek Starship Troopers style movie. As part of a four person ensemble where he isn’t the focus it could work, but to be honest any tall and beefy action movie actor is going to undermine the tongue in cheek themes of Helldivers and is a strong sign that the studio is going to take a star studded cast approach like they did with Borderlands and the result will most likely be the same.
If this was an announcement that included three other actors/actresses who would clearly balance things out, like the cast of Dune did, it wouldn’t be as concerning for me. Announcing a single person implies a leading role and he isn’t the right person for doing that in a Helldivers movie.
I don’t think his acting style would work well as a lead for a tongue in cheek Starship Troopers style movie. As part of a four person ensemble where he isn’t the focus it could work, but to be honest any tall and beefy action movie actor is going to undermine the tongue in cheek themes of Helldivers and is a strong sign that the studio is going to take a star studded cast approach like they did with Borderlands and the result will most likely be the same.
If this was an announcement that included three other actors/actresses who would clearly balance things out, like the cast of Dune did, it wouldn’t be as concerning for me. Announcing a single person implies a leading role and he isn’t the right person for doing that in a Helldivers movie.
I really love Momoa, I think he’s great in a lot of things, but this is definitely not it.
He was in Stargate. It might work.
Yeah I’m hopeful that this will be his second-best role (behind when he played Ronon).
I watched his Conan the barbarian movie ooof that was terrible