RoboCop star Peter Weller has had quite an awesome career as an actor and director and has been involved with franchises like DC with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Star Trek with Star Trek Into Darkness, and now it looks like he’s got the opportunity to play in the Marvel universe as he’s joined Marvel’s new animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!
He shared the news himself in an interview with CB, saying:
"I just finished a thing called Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Laurence Fishburne, a long-time pal, called me up and said, 'Hey, would you play this? It's a voice-acting gig. Would you do this role of Dr. Stern? It was written for you.'"
There’s no word on who exactly Dr. Stern is, if he’s an original character created for the series, or if he’s a character from Marvel Comics. If the character is from the comics, it could possibly be an iteration of Dr. Samuel Sterns, a cellular biologist who eventually transforms into Hulk antagonist Leader. Samuel Sterns was actually played Tim Blake Nelson in the MCU, who will return in the upcoming film Captain America: New World Order. Weller continued, saying:
"I said, 'Laurence, I've heard this rap before, that somebody is calling you up and saying it was written for you. I did that with Dexter, and it turned out he didn't write it for me. Then Howard Gordon did it with 24. I read this voice acting thing for Moon Girl, and you know it's a Marvel/Disney thing."
Weller went on to talk about Fishburne's description of the character and explains that he’s been having a lot of fun playing the role:
"'It's a pretentious, art-historian doctor, like you are. I read it and it is this guy in Dr. Stern who brags about his PhDs and his art knowledge and everything and tries to wrangle these kids.
“I've done a couple episodes of it, and it's fun. It is absolutely like my version, Peter Weller's version of Squidward, but Squidward is like me, and so subsequently when Fishburne hands me this thing called Dr. Stern, it's absolutely a combo of Peter Weller and Squidward. I love doing it. I love being the pompous, arrogant, essentially idiot in front of these kids."
That’s awesome! Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is fun animated show and Weller’s involvement will only make it better!
The series is based on Marvel’s hit comic book series, and the story follows the adventures of a 13-year-old super-genius named Lunella Lafayette and her 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur. “After Lunella accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.”
Laurence Fishburne also plays a character named The Beyonder. The show also stars actress and singer Diamond White (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Lion Guard) as Lunella Lafayette (aka Moon Girl); Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage) as Lunella's grandmother, Mimi; Libe Barer (Sneaky Pete) as Lunella's best friend and manager, Casey; Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live) as Lunella's mom, Adria; Jermaine Fowler (Superior Donuts) as Lunella's dad, James Jr.; Fred Tatasciore (Marvel's Avengers Assemble) as the one-and-only Devil Dinosaur; and Gary Anthony Williams (Doc McStuffins) as Lunella's grandfather, Pops.
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is produced by Black-ish and Grown-ish executive producer Helen Sugland.
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