10 Actors Who Deserve Superhero Movie Redemption - Part 10
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10 Actors Who Deserve Superhero Movie Redemption

The superhero film genre, while sometimes lucrative, fun, and immensely popular, can be an unforgiving thing for those who fail to achieve greatness. While successful films like The Avengers or The Dark Knight trilogy are lauded for their achievements behind and in front of the camera, the genre's various flops and disappointments have left an undeniable mark.
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1) Mark Strong

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Mark Strong Sinestro

Of all the actors on this list, Mark Strong is perhaps the one most worthy of another shot at a superhero property. He played Sinestro in 2011’s Green Lantern, and was, quite frankly, the only redeeming thing about that film. Unfortunately, the movie was a critical and commercial bomb, and is something that Warner Brothers would rather not think about as it moves forward with the DC Cinematic Universe.

As such, the role of Green Lantern will be recast, and so will Sinestro. Strong delivered one of the most enjoyable and faithful supervillain performances in the superhero genre, but did so in the wrong movie.

Like Norton, Strong did get a bit of redemption with another role; he was a key player in this year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. However, all that did was convince us once again of Strong’s brilliance and sink us back into mourning for the red-skinned, yellow-ringed Sinestro. Perhaps he can take on another DC movie role instead, like that of Brainiac? Please?


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Lego photographer, cinephile, geek. James is 24 and lives in Portland, OR. He writes for several websites about pop culture, film, and TV and runs a video production company with his wife called Gilded Moose Media.