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Mutatis Mutandis

Your Daily X-Men: Days Of Future Past Roundup – Body Paint, Bishop, & Halle Berry?

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:03 am, March 4th, 2013


Lots of X-Men: Days of Future Past news has been floating around the last few days. Here it is in one easy to read post! 

Once again, director Bryan Singer took to Twitter to unveil the latest addition to the cast. French actor Omar Sy, best known for The Intouchables, will join the film in an unspecified role. I’m starting to think that’s the deal Singer made with the studio – he gets to announce casting but not who the actors are playing. We’re still guessing at who Peter Dinklage will play but according to Collider, fans are guessing Sy will be Bishop, the time traveling mutant cop.

In the 90s animated X-Men series, Bishop takes on Kitty Pryde’s role in the “Days of Future Past” storyline but we already know Ellen Page is set to reprise Kitty in the film so it’s really anyone’s guess.

Meanwhile, Halle Berry was previously rumored to return as Storm (who Bishop also has connections to) but has since talked about it more concretely. ”Yeah. I’m excited too. The fans really love Storm, and so I’m really happy that it’s worked out that way. No matter what my part will be or won’t be, to be a part of that is always a good thing. I love it,” she told to Black Tree TV.

And finally, the absolutely, positively returning Jennifer Lawrence told E! News Singer has come up with a simpler way for her to resume playing Mystique – a body suit. For First Class the actress had to sit in a makeup chair for hours to have the blue paint and prosthetics applied. ”I’m so excited because I’m going to wear a body suit,” she said, ”It will be from neck down so it will cut out time and the blisters.”

(via io9, MTV)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/laura.truxillo Laura Truxillo

    Halle Berry? Noooooooooooooooo.

    Get Gina Torres. Because…because Gina Torres!

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps they’ll continue the sterling tradition of First Class and have Sy play the token black X-Man who dies or betrays the team and is never mentioned again.
    *No I’m not still bitter about Darwin and Angel, why do you ask?*

  • Anonymous

    I was hoping that the First Class sequel would bring Darwin back. The way he got killed off in First Class seemed so heavy-handed that there was something more going on (and so illogical given that his powers actually allow him to adapt to anything, but that energy suddenly killed him?), and especially due to the character’s actual history…

    I dunno, I guess that’s becoming less and less likely…

  • Anonymous

    I’m really on the fence about the Halle Berry hate. She’s clearly a capable actress, and I really think that the problems with her portrayal of Storm in X-Men have more to do with her lack of defined activity and role in the script and lack of good direction. Someone told her to do the Kenyan accent in X1, then told her to drop it in X2. Someone decided to give her the dumb white wig in X1 and the awful line about lighting striking toads. And X3, well…

  • http://www.facebook.com/laura.truxillo Laura Truxillo

    She’s a fine actress. But she is a bad Storm. And at the end of the day, whether or not most of that was direction or acting, it leaves enough of a stain on her time as the character that they shouldn’t reveal it.

    And I don’t like being down on an actress’s body type, but she always seemed too waif-like to play Storm. Not that she is “too skinny” in general, just for that character there was a feeling of someone awkwardly playing dress-up. But mostly, bad direction or not, she as an actress never gave us a portrayal of Storm that felt like a real character (and really, the Toad line wasn’t awful, just cheesy. It would have been forgivable with a better established character).

    She struck our as Storm. She utterly failed as Catwoman. Whether or not those are “her fault,” maybe she just isn’t the right kind of actress to play in superhero-type movies.

  • Brian

    Apparently the lightning striking toads thing was supposed to be payoff to a running gag of some sort, but all the lines leading up to it were deleted. So that’s even less her fault than it seems.

  • Dennis Carden

    LOL jock..i hear you!! Was sort of silly, especially with a mutant like Darwin that had the potential to be so powerful

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