As fans of Marvel Comics You may know, at the beginning of the 2000s the publisher decided to renew its main superhero group with ‘ultimate avengers‘, a sort of reboot in a more modern key of its classic characters, thus opening the doors to the different Ultimates series of other great characters from the House of Ideas. However, Mark Miller and Bryan Hitch They wanted to play with the idea of a possible film adaptation of this new group of Avengers, putting on the table names of real big Hollywood stars such as those of Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt as Hombre de Hierro and Captain Americarespectively, although they finally only got it right with Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.
Very different Avengers
And it is that his own Samuel L. Jackson served as inspiration to create the Nick Fury of the universe ultimatean actor who would finally sign to play that same role with Marvel Studios A few years later. But since Marvel Comics They thought at the time of other names, specifically number 4 of the series ‘The Ultimates‘, proposing authentic Hollywood stars at that time and who continue to be so today despite the years that have passed.
Of course, the cast proposed by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch is not wasted, with Brad Pitt as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Johnny Depp like Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Buscemi like Bruce Banner/Hulk, Lucy Liu as Janet Van Dyne/Wasp, Matthew McConaughey as Hank Pym/Ant-Man and himself Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, the latter being the only one to make the leap to the big screen with his character proposed in the comics.
And even though this comic was published in 2002, it was not until 2008 when Samuel L. Jackson debuted as Nick Fury on the big screen with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man as part of the UCM, a role he has maintained to this day, recently appearing in his own series ‘Secret Invasion’ or in the film ‘The Marvels‘.
