The guy who plays the new Doctor Doom might be the villain in Ben-Hur
After failing to get one Marvel movie villain to play the hero in its Ben-Hur remake, MGM and Paramount might be settling on a different Marvel movie villain to play its bad guy. According to Variety, the studios are in talks with Toby Kebbell to play treacherous jerkbag Messala, a role that should be easy from him to manage since he just wrapped up playing Doctor Doom in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. This is a step in the right direction for the definitely necessary Ben-Hur remake, since seeing Loki befriend Jesus would have confused everybody, but seeing Doctor Doom torment a guy who is friends with Jesus is totally something he would do. In fact, we think the new Ben-Hur would be improved immeasurably if they just let Kebbell wear his Doctor Doom costume the whole time.