The star of Sandman Kirby Howell-Baptiste responds to the rumor of “intriguing” casting X-Men
Kirby Howell-Baptiste, who plays death in Netflix The Sandmanis the last actress to be linked to the role of Storm in Marvel Studios’ X-Men restart.
Although we are not aware of the original rumor (it comes from an anonymous twitter scoop without many balance sheets, it was therefore widely ignored at the time), Thedissider.com It seems to think that there could be something and asked Howell-Baptists the report during a recent interview.
Here is an extract from their article.
“When they were asked if she was aware of the rumor, if she was even interested in playing the role – or if she had a reaction to the news, Howell -Baptiste stopped and played shy.” Send this article, “she said.” I would love to read it. How to intriguing? “She didn’t say yes.
Director Jake Schreier recently confirmed that work on the new X-Men The film began, and we have heard that the casting is underway, so there is always a chance that Kirby was approached to potentially fulfill as a mutant manipulating bad weather.
The other actress who was mentioned as part of the role is Jodie Turner-Smith and Ayo Edebiri-although we heard that the nasty star was in fact courted for the mysterious Deadpool / X-Men project of Ryan Reynolds.
The tastes of Harris Dickinson, Margaret Qualley and Julia Butters would have already been on the studio radar (they would have been in the running to play Cyclops, Rogue and Kitty Pryde, but we do not know if it is always the case), with Alien: Romulus Star David Jonsson and Trinity Bliss, who can be online to play jubilee.
The other names that arose in the rumor mill include Hunter Schafer (mystical) and Javier Bardem (M. Sinister).
Here is what Kevin Feige had to say about his “10 -year plan” for the mutant saga in a recent interview.
“I think you will see that it continues in our next films with X-Men players that you could recognize. Just after that, the whole story of the secret wars really brings us to a new era of mutants and X-Men. Again, once again, [it’s] One of these dreams comes true. We finally have the X-Men. “”
Macbeth (2015), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and Assassin’s Creed (2016) The scribe Michael Lesslie wrote the script, but we would not be surprised if another writer (or two) was brought to give him another pass before the film comes into production.
No release date has been set.
