{"id":84106,"date":"2025-10-19T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/84106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:46:08","slug":"maverick-star-singled-out-as-pretty-good-choice-to-play-nova-in-the-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/84106\/","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Star Singled Out as ‘Pretty Good’ Choice to Play Nova in the MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no way to know how deeply into the playbook Marvel<\/a> plans to go as the MCU prepares itself for the cataclysmic events that undoubtedly await the multiverse in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. And if they choose to debut a character or two ahead of that combo pack, or at some point during, an idea for one of the more powerful beings just entered the chat \u2014 Nova, and with a Top Gun: Maverick star tied to it.<\/p>\n

The teases for Nova stem back to when James Gunn and Marvel were in concert with the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy when Nova Corps was introduced. And should Marvel decide to finally deliver on those teasers, as they’ve hinted at in recent interviews<\/a>, Glenn Powell just heard his name tossed into the ring as the one who should get the honor of becoming Richard Rider.<\/p>\n

In an interview detailing the inner workings of Hulu\u2019s Chad Powers, a project led by Powell and screenwriter Michael Waldron, it was the latter offering up the former as the actor he\u2019d cast as Nova if he was the power that be in MCU decision-making.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d be a pretty good Nova,\u201d Waldron told The Bingeworthy Podcast, via The Playlist.<\/p>\n

And, with that, it\u2019s impossible to unsee the mental imagery of Powell, one of the fastest up-and-coming Hollywood stars, on screen as Nova. Given his success in blockbusters like Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters, and several other films before, in-between and after, Waldron might be onto something here.<\/p>\n

Finally Debuting Nova Would Be Super<\/p>\n

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\n Richard Rider in space as NovaImage via Marvel Comics<\/p>\n

It goes without saying there\u2019s still a place in the MCU for Nova\u2019s appearance to resonate deeply, considering his character arc in Marvel’s comics and the fact Avengers: Doomsday is set to pull in superheroes (and supervillains) from all corners of the multiverse. Imbued with the powers of the alien Rhomann Dey with hopes of Rider becoming Nova Prime, Rider is familiar with places MCU fans have already come to know, such as Knowhere, and he\u2019s battled cosmic beings like Silver Surfer \u2014 the herald of Galactus in Fantastic Four and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.<\/p>\n

With the Fantastic Four entering this dimension after defeating Galactus, getting the attention of the Thunderbolts a.k.a. The New Avengers, it\u2019s fine to circle back to the first sentence in this article as a reminder that there is, in fact, no way to know how deeply into the playbook<\/a> Marvel plans to go, and maybe they\u2019d be willing to hear Waldron out about Powell as Nova.<\/p>\n

The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy is currently streaming on Disney+. <\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 1, 2014<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t121 minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Gunn<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNicole Perlman, James Gunn<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Nik Korda, Stan Lee<\/a>, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no way to know how deeply into the playbook Marvel plans to go as the MCU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-84106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}