10 Actors Who Should Totally Play Omni-Man in a Live-Action Invincible

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The production of a live-action film adaptation of the comic book series Invincible has been in the works for a number of years and seems to be ongoing, despite the absence of any new statements on the project. The second season of the animated adaptation will be released in late 2023, which was just confirmed. The first season of the show debuted in 2021 to acclaim, and the reviews were explosive.

The original Amazon series Invincible has been such a smashing success that fans are asking for a live-action adaptation of the show. In the event that a live-action adaptation of Invincible is produced, these are the actors we would want to see in it.

10. JK Simmons

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The Academy Award Winning actor J.K. Simmons performs an excellent job in the cartoon show, providing the voice of Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man in the animated series Invincible available on Prime Video. Because of his performance as J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man trilogy directed by Sam Raimi, as well as his reprise of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home, he has amassed a significant amount of notoriety in the comic book realm. He’s also shown that he is more than capable of transforming his physique into that of a superhero in real life, bulking up to play Commissioner James Gordon in 2017’s Justice League. So why not have Simmons play the real version of the father of Invincible.

9. Chris Pine

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Even though Chris Pine portrays Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Universe’s Wonder Woman, this does not imply that he enjoys the recent trend of superhero movies that have been finding their way to theaters. In light of the fact that he does not gravitate toward superhero movies due to the fact that many of them tend to follow the same formula, it is possible that portraying Omni-Man would be the ideal role for the actor. The amount of violence in Invincible is almost unfathomable, and the narrative itself is a departure from the standard formula for superhero movies like those produced by Marvel and DC. The Image comic book is unconventional, and gloomy but has a lot of heart, and it may be the kind of off-kilter superhero-type of character that the Star Trek celebrity is searching for.

8. Kyle Chandler

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Kyle Chandler has appeared in a wide variety of well-known parts, many of which have become iconic in the minds of his devoted followers. Some examples of these performances include Coach Taylor on Friday Night Lights and Agent Patrick Denham in The Wolf of Wall Street, among many more (Godzilla: King of Monsters). Now starring in Slumberland, which was released on November 9, 2022, by Netflix and is based on a comic Chandler is familiar with from the early 1900s. The fact that Chandler has a disposition that is fast to the trigger, in addition to his middle-aged chiseled appearance, makes him an outstanding candidate for the role of the heroic father.

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Chris Clemente

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