{"id":267256,"date":"2025-11-17T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267256\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:32:10","slug":"the-three-movie-franchises-glen-powell-wants-nothing-to-do-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267256\/","title":{"rendered":"The three movie franchises Glen Powell wants nothing to do with"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glen<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Sun 16 November 2025 17:45, UK <\/p>\n

Glen Powell<\/a> has become one of the leading A-listers in his age bracket, but he\u2019s chosen not to rely on franchises to build his star persona.<\/p>\n

An unusual shift that\u2019s occurred within the last decade of Hollywood filmmaking is that characters and franchises have become more important than actors. While there used to be a way for stars like George Clooney or Denzel Washington to sell a film purely based on their involvement, the market has become rougher for original projects.<\/p>\n

Case in point: the alumni of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Captain America franchises cruised to being global smash hits, but Chris Evans wasn\u2019t greeted as warmly when Red One and Honey Don\u2019t bombed. Similarly, the goodwill that Chris Hemsworth earned from being Thor didn\u2019t prevent Blackhat and In the Heart of the Sea from flopping.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this dichotomy that has made Glen Powell think twice about signing up to play an MCU character, as he\u2019s already found a way to choose more interesting projects that he believes in. In a short window, Powell helped revitalise the romantic comedy genre with the smash hit\u00a0Anyone But You\u00a0and scored a co-writing credit with Richard Linklater on\u00a0Hit Man, which earned him a nomination from the WGA awards.<\/p>\n

It might\u2019ve been easier for Powell to say no to Marvel, especially given the franchise\u2019s recent run of flops<\/a> \u2013 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, and Captain America: Brave New World haven\u2019t exactly done them any favours. Still, fair play to him, he also had the sense to turn down a reboot of the Jason Bourne series, which, to be fair, has rarely put a foot wrong at the box office.<\/p>\n

Powell revealed to The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>that he has a process of \u201cchoosing where you\u2019re going to make an audience happy and where you\u2019re going to make yourself happy,\u201d which may explain why he didn\u2019t want to play a role when he would inevitably be compared to Matt Damon. However, this hardest philosophy has also meant that Powell has turned down franchises with which he has a personal connection, including\u00a0Jurassic Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cJurassic is one of my favorite movies,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the things I\u2019ve wanted to do my whole life. I\u2019m not doing that movie because I read the script and I immediately was like, \u2018my presence in this movie doesn\u2019t help it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell correctly predicted that \u201cthe movie\u2019s going to fucking kill,\u201d as Jurassic World Rebirth coasted to over $850million at the global box office, easily beating other summer titles like The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, and F1. <\/p>\n

However, the film was also stung with the criticism of being another derivative sequel with interchangeable human characters. Even if Jurassic World Rebirth featured the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, it\u2019s pretty clear that audiences were showing up to see the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

The speed at which Hollywood churns out sequels and reboots means that it\u2019s inevitable that Powell would find himself in a couple of franchise films, but he\u2019s managed to carefully select projects that could use \u201chis presence\u201d. <\/p>\n

Despite a supporting role in Top Gun: Maverick, Powell was hailed as the film\u2019s standout and a potential air-apparent to Tom Cruise. Twisters similarly allowed him to play a suave hero with the same blue-collar charisma of Bill Paxton in the 1996 original.<\/p>\n

Powell is set to appear in a couple of exciting original films, including a new JJ Abrams science fiction adventure and a black comedy co-starring Margaret Qualley. Should they be successful, these films will be credited to Powell\u2019s star power with no asterisks required.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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