Frank Grillo has already made a small piece of film historical past, as one of many few actors to play a significant function in each an MCU and a DCU film. Nevertheless, it turns on the market was a fair nearer connection between his two roles than we realized.
Frank Grillo performed Crossbones for Marvel Studios earlier than his latest appearances as Rick Flag Sr. (in each animation and live-action) for James Gunn’s DCU. Each roles ended up requiring his character to arrest a superhero. He took Captain America into custody in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and he arrested the Man of Metal in Superman as properly. Hilariously, as Grillo instructed Brandon Davis, the 2 scenes have been shot solely blocks aside in Cleveland. Grillo mentioned…
By the way in which, we shot Captain America proper there. Yeah, we shot on that road. I arrested Captain America down the block! Isn’t that loopy? Proper down the block was after I nabbed Captain America.
Of all of the coincidences that might crop up in filmmaking, this one is fairly unimaginable. Whereas Cleveland isn’t an unusual location for filming films, it’s not like Southern California or Georgia, the place there are main studios out there. The truth that each films have been filmed there in any respect is attention-grabbing sufficient, however each films having comparable scenes that concerned the identical actor, what are the percentages? No severely, any person who’s higher at math please inform me what the percentages are.
Grillo was by no means shy about admitting he was slightly pissed off with the way in which Crossbones was used within the MCU. There have been apparently plans, or a minimum of conversations, about making him an even bigger dangerous man for Captain America, however they by no means materialized. The character was considerably unceremoniously killed off in Captain America: Civil Warfare and by no means seen once more.
Frank Grillo has already had a extra important affect on the DCU, which solely simply started this yr, than he ever did on Marvel. He’s the one actor who has been a part of all three items of the DCU to this point, voicing Rick Flag Sr. within the animated Creature Commandos, after which showing in live-action in each Superman and Peacemaker Season 2. And but, it introduced him again to the place his superhero journey began, arresting a superhero in a blue costume on a road in Cleveland. The extra issues change…
With a Superman sequel on the way in which, and with Cleveland formally standing in for Metropolis, filming will possible return there. And contemplating how large an element Grillo has been of the DCU already, there’s a fairly good likelihood he’ll be again for it. Years and universes aside, however Frank Grillo will at all times get his man, and he’ll apparently at all times get him on Superior Road in Cleveland.