With the steady rise in popularity of the superhero genre, fans keep wanting their favorite actors to join one or the other franchise. The recent past has seen various big wigs indulging in the genre like Christian Bale playing Gorr, in Thor: Love and Thunder, Charlize Theron appearing at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Robert Pattinson, who stuck to doing indie roles after Twilight, donning cape and cowl for Matt Reeves’ The Batman.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Mescal made his feature film debut with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, starring alongside the likes of Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ed Harris among others. He recently starred in Aftersun, and the psychological drama God's Creatures, both of which got good reviews during their festival run.
This year’s biggest summer blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick has gained a lot of love and applause from fans. The movie brought Cruise back to his fan-favorite character Pete "Maverick" Mitchell after three decades to train a new generation of Top Gun graduates. It tickled the nostalgic bone of fans across generations and has become the highest-grossing domestic film of all time.