David Kaufman‘s not going ghost on the dialog about who ought to play Danny Phantom within the live-action film … telling TMZ he is bought some clear casting concepts.
The actor — who voiced the titular character in all 53 episodes of the tv present and reprised his position in subsequent films and video video games … instructed us he is all for Tom Holland taking part in DP although he thinks Spider-Man is likely to be all finished with superheroes for some time.
Here’s the deal … Butch Hartman, creator of an entire bunch of well-known animated reveals for Nickelodeon within the 2000s, not too long ago spoke at MegaCon in Orlando and mentioned if there ever was a “Danny Phantom” live-action film, he’d solely need Tom Holland within the position.
For those that do not know, “Danny Phantom” adopted a youngster named Danny Fenton who gained ghost-like skills after a portal to a different world exploded and turned him into half-human, half-ghost.
A giant if after all … nothing like this has gone into manufacturing and even been introduced so far as we are able to inform — nevertheless it’s nonetheless one thing Kaufman actually put his thoughts to, and he determined TH is ok by him if he desires to do it.
DK identified Tom’s headed to the West End for a manufacturing of “Romeo & Juliet” … a truth David thinks is nice for him since it is a departure from the superhero roles Holland has nailed thus far in his profession.
Quite frankly, it isn’t troublesome to think about Tom desirous to pursue totally different sorts of roles transferring ahead both for the reason that dude’s a expertise tour de pressure.
Kaufman wasn’t simply countering Butch’s concept although … he additionally got here up with a pair casting calls of his personal — “Stranger Things” actor Noah Schnapp as Danny and Billie freakin’ Eilish as his friend-turned-love-interest Sam.
David complimented Noah on his comedic timing, saying he thinks that is an enormous a part of Danny’s character — so any actor taking part in him must know their method round a joke. And, simply lookup some pics of the characters … fairly good casting, not less than appearance-wise.
Billie would not have a lot appearing expertise, however that is by no means stopped Hollywood earlier than … and he or she’s up for her second Best Original Song Oscar, so perhaps she’ll be impressed to present appearing a attempt.
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Someone from Nickelodeon higher begin making calls … they would not need a possibility like this to come back again and hang-out them!