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Eric Martin Andrew Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana, is an Australian actor, comedian, producer, and director. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy-drama The Castle (1997). He achieved critical recognition for starring in the biographical crime film Chopper(2000) and as the titular character in Hulk (2003). After a decade of roles in Australian television shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001) and as Bruce Banner in the superhero horror film Hulk(2003). He played Hector in the war epic Troy (2004) and took a leading role in Steven Spielberg's historical thriller Munich (2005). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek, which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen in Lone Survivor(2013) and playing police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil(2014). In 2018, Bana played the title role in a true crime miniseries, Dirty John. In 2020, he returned to Australia to star in outback thriller The Dry. Bana has received several Australian Film Institute awards and has performed distinctive lead and character roles across various genres—from epics to science fiction and action thrillers. In addition to acting, Bana is a motor-racing enthusiast and has participated in multiple racing competitions in Australia. Bana was appointed Member of the Order of Australia(AM) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for his services to drama.
Here is a general 1:1 recreation of the real life marvel phase structure I created to best of my ability. I decided Wolverine, Spider-Man and Hulk would replace the MCU big three of Iron-Man, Captain America and Thor. The development of this structure would be based either on Marvel never selling film rights or the combined interests of these seperate studios to share a universe (similar to the Disney/Sony deal) Phase 1: X:Men (2000) Iron-Man (2000) Spider-Man (2002) X2 (2003) Hulk (2003) Avengers Assemble (2004) Phase 2: X-Men: Dark Pheonix (2005) Spider-Man 2 (2005) Hulk 2 (2006) Fantastic Four (2006) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2007) Spider-Man 3 (2007) Phase 3: Marvel's House Of M (2008) Captain America (2008) Fantastic Four Vol. 2 (2009) Wolverine (2009) Hulk 3 (2009) Spider-Man 4 (2010) Marvel's Secret Wars: Part I (2010) Marvel's Secret Wars: Part II (2011) With this we lose out on a lot of great films. The entire MCU Phase 1 built up this first Avengers film, however I felt it would be too high of a stake to attempt to crossover Wolverine, Spider-Man and Hulk in the first phase. Rather I look at the development of Iron-Man and Hulk in the first phase and will see Captain America as the main character of that first Avengers film. Something this Cinematic universe will have to specialise in is films about Superhero groups. I argue the best way to do this is to prioritise one main character within the group and develop the other characters from that. As more characters are developed, we can build up to Secret Wars Part one and two based off the 80s comic, as the Jonathan Hickman run wouldn't exist yet.
