Iwan Rheon Wants To Return as Inhumans' Maximus In The MCU
Iwan Rheon, star of ABC's Inhumans, wants another crack at playing Maximus in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A few years after Marvel Studios announced plans to make an Inhumans movie and fans saw no movement on that front, Marvel Television announced that ABC and IMAX partnered together to bring the powerful Marvel characters to the small screen. The series focusing on the Inhuman royal family had a special IMAX premiere ahead of its premiere on ABC in 2017. However, Inhumans became one of Marvel's biggest flops instead of becoming a giant hit. ABC canceled the show after only one season and left the Inhumans with a questionable MCU future.
Following Inhumans' cancelation, Agents of SHIELD continued to use some Inhumans characters, namely Daisy Johnson/Quake (Chloe Bennett). However, the main cast of Inhumans did not cross over with the adjacent Marvel series or any other Marvel property. This is likely the result of the series' poor reception and criticisms for how it brought great comic characters like Black Bolt (Anson Mount), Medusa (Serinda Swan), and Maximus the Mad (Iwan Rheon) to the screen. Even though it has been more than four years since Inhumans season 1 ended, there is not much clamor for these characters to return, unlike the constant calls for Agents of SHIELD and Defenders characters to come back.
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Now, one of the Inhumans stars is vying for his return to the MCU. Iwan Rheon starred in the series as Maximus Boltagon, the charming and manipulative younger brother of Black Bolt. Based on his performance as Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones, there was great excitement for him to become a Marvel villain. Even though his time
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