The movie industry is sprawling in nature, but smaller than one might think. No need to work through the entire Six Degrees of Separation to connecting a pair of actors or filmmakers, especially true with the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the franchise continues to expand.
Pierce Brosnan will obviously be eternally grateful for what the role of James Bond did for his career, especially when he was forced to turn it down once before when he couldn't get out of his contract for Remington Steele back in the 1980s, which opened the door for the criminally underrated Timothy Dalton era.
It might sound a little reductive, and she's only made two appearances to date so we don't know really what she's up to in any great detail, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus' contributions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far have set her Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine up as Phase Four's anti-Nick Fury.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe already has The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special coming to Disney Plus next year, but it looks as though Jeremy Renner's Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld's Kate Bishop are going to beat James Gunn's band of intergalactic misfits to the punch when Hawkeye begins rolling out from November 24th.
AppleTV+ is intent to scoop up as many high profile original movies as possible, and for the most part they've been big budget efforts with A-list stars in the lead roles, but the streaming service evidently isn't opposed to the idea of acquiring smaller, character-driven pieces as well.
Donnie Yen is one of the most popular and acclaimed action stars of the modern era; he's managed to ascend to the top of the ass-kicking hierarchy without appearing in an overabundance of Hollywood projects. He might be one of the biggest names in Hong Kong cinema, with a laundry list of smash hits dating back decades, but he's kept his stateside excursions to a minimum.
Michael Rooker and Nathan Fillion are James Gunn's good luck charms, having appeared in all of the filmmaker's features to date. However, since Yondu was killed off in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Gunn has repeatedly insisted that he's not coming back, Rooker's run might be coming to an end when Vol. 3 kicks off production.
Fans will lap up anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe puts out, such is the connection that audiences all over the world have forged with the franchise across the last thirteen years, and the recent move into episodic television has been more than welcome. WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki all received widespread acclaim, with the first two becoming awards season favorites, but that doesn't mean people won't want even more.
Nobody's going to disagree with the sentiment that Disney are our all-conquering pop culture overlords, but the Mouse House's track record is a lot less stellar than they'd want you to believe.
For whatever reason, a cursory glance at the internet makes it clear that Brie Larson isn't the most universally popular actress in the business. YouTube even changed its algorithm to combat the trolls who were downvoting Captain Marvel into oblivion as part of a sustained campaign against the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster, which didn't accomplish a thing in the long run when Carol Danvers' origin story rocketed to over $1.1 billion at the box office.