As somebody who’s part of his past and his history with the Pym Particles and the technology. Well, I think it was great that they use Bill as a foil for Hank. What did you find appealing and interesting about Bill Foster? But I have been a reader, I’m going to say, since ’68. When DC was making those big jumbo ones that cost 75 cents, and Marvel was putting out special edition stuff. That’s when they had those big jumbo issues. Then the price went up to 25 cents, but by that time, I was working as a young actor in New York and I could afford them again. Once they went to 15 cents, I couldn’t afford them, I would steal them, literally. Couple years later, they went up to 12, I was still buying ’em then. When I started reading Marvel comics, they cost 10 cents. Have you delved back into Bill’s story since getting the part?ĭo you remember the first comics you did read as a kid? It’s a beautiful way for me to enter into the universe. But I thought it was a such a great gift. I did know who they were peripherally just because I read all the other books. I knew about the Pym Particles, and I knew about Janet van Dyne and Wasp. I knew, for example, I knew who Hank Pym was. Ant-Man, I never really got to, but Bill Foster’s a cool character. I was into Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Avengers, Hulk, Iron Fist I was in that world. I was not familiar with Bill Foster, ’cause I wasn’t an Ant-Man reader. They came back and said, “Hey, man, what do you think about Bill Foster in Ant-Man,” and I was overjoyed. And when I realized that he was at Disney and I was at Disney, I thought, “Oh, let me go talk to Lou and see if we can figure something out, a way for me to be in the MCU.” So I went to see him, we had a great meeting. Norrin will be his herald as the Silver Surfer and all that.” And he’s like, “Whoa!” So that was my first ask.Īnd after seeing so many of the films, I knew Louis (D’Esposito, Marvel executive) from New York, we did a picture called The Cotton Club together back 30-some-odd years ago. And in exchange for sparing his planet, he has to work for Galactus. When Galactus shows up at his planet, he’s this guy named Norrin Radd. Laurence Fishburne: The first time was, however many years ago when they made Rise of the Silver Surfer, I bumped into the director, Tim Story, and I said to him, “I’m Norrin Radd.” And he said, “What?” And I said, “I’m Norrin Radd.” And he said, “Who’s that?” And I said, “That’s the name of the character who becomes the Silver Surfer.
In the new movie, Pym, his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) turn to Foster for help as they try to determine whether Hank’s wife, Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), is still alive and able to be rescued 30 years after vanishing into the subatomic Quantum Realm.ĭen of Geek: You’ve been looking to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bill Foster, a rival scientist of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) in Ant-Man and the Wasp.įoster made his first comic book appearance back in 1966, and suited up as both Giant-Man and Goliath/Black Goliath over the years. Now Fishburne - who has also shown up in the DC film universe as Daily Planet editor Perry White in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - finally gets his chance in the MCU as Dr.
the Silver Surfer, in Fox’s woebegotten Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), although of course that film was produced by Fox and not part of the official MCU (Radd and the Four could join the MCU if the proposed Disney-Fox merger goes through, but Fishburne wants to play Galactus now). He did brush up against Marvel once before: he provided the voice for Norrin Radd, a.k.a. Laurence Fishburne has been reading comics since he was a kid, and has made no secret of his desire to join the vast array of actors who have made their marks in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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