Seriously, it's very rare to see "miscasts" in the films of both these directors. Now their styles and sensibilities are worlds apart, but I find it interesting how well these guys and their casting directors cast pretty much all their films. Marvel films are similar, but in that case it's less auteur-driven since I'm sure that Feige and the casting directors have much more pull than any one director in the Marvel stable. Not only that, I've never read any actor seem frustrated, perfunctory, or say anything other than glowing about both directors. Both deliver on spectacle on time and under budget, and they work easily with execs, which is why execs mostly seem to love them. I don't think either director has ever had an out and out bomb (if we're excising the unique circumstances around Justice League). These guys more than anything are two sides of the same coins. They have their fervent fan bases, have stylistic tics throughout all their films (while Nolan's work seems laden with subtexts and lots of heady ideas, for Snyder the superficial is the subtext, obsessing with specific types of imagery).
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of other directors and casting directors that cast amazingly well, but these two in particular stand out since they're so steeped in comic book/big budget tentpole films that don't veer into just stunt-casting or casting big names, but casting amazing actors and then getting the best work out of them possible without it just being for a punchclock cheque.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of other directors and casting directors that cast amazingly well, but these two in particular stand out since they're so steeped in comic book/big budget tentpole films that don't veer into just stunt-casting or casting big names, but casting amazing actors and then getting the best work out of them possible without it just being for a punchclock cheque.
