Invincible's Walton Goggins Weighs in on Playing a Live-Action Cecil
The Justified and Fallout star says not to get your hopes up.
Plans for a live-action adaptation of Invincible have been in the works since the animated series became a massive hit -- but for a variety of reasons, some of the voice cast for the Prime Video show aren't planning on reprising their roles in a feature film. One of those is Walton Goggins, who says he doesn't think he could do a live-action take on Cecil Stedman, his character from Invincible. While Goggins wouldn't face the same problems as some other characters -- he doesn't have to be a teenager like Steven Yeun or wear a super-suit like Yeun and J.K. Simmons would -- he seems opposed to the idea of undergoing a bunch of old man makeup to pull off the gig.
In Invincible, Steadman is a government agent in charge of the Global Defense Agency. After the murder of the Guardians of the Globe, he was one of the first to realize it was Omni-Man. But he also comes from that long history of comic book characters who served in (or at least lived during) World War II or the Korean War, and are now knocking on the door to 100 years old while secretly controlling the world.
"I don't know -- I think I've already played an old man," Goggins told ComicBook.com, while speaking to us on behalf of Prime Video's upcoming adaptation of Fallout. "I don't think I could do that again."
Fallout premieres on Amazon's Prime Video on April 11th.
Here's the series' official synopsis:
Set in the future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and world of Fallout, the series is an original story based on Fallout that will be part of the canon of the games. The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creators of Westworld. It will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The series cast includes Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O'Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).