Marvel's new X-Men cast is out — which casting choice are you most excited (or skeptical) about? - Hewsay

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Marvel's new X-Men cast is out — which casting choice are you most excited (or skeptical) about?

🏆 Leading: Whoever's playing Professor X — the moral center of the team, and the casting that has to nail both quiet authority and real vulnerability for the whole ensemble to click.

Whoever's playing Professor X — the moral center of the team, and the casting that has to nail both quiet authority and real vulnerability for the whole ensemble to click. is leading so far with 50%.

Rogue going to Inde Navarrette — the "Obsession" breakout ($488M box office) landing this role instead of the widely-predicted Mystique is the biggest swing of the whole announcement. is second. On this few votes the split is still anyone's guess.

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Marvel's new X-Men cast is out — which casting choice are you most excited (or skeptical) about?

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Leading answer

Whoever's playing Professor X — the moral center of the team, and the casting that has to nail both quiet authority and real vulnerability for the whole ensemble to click.

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Rogue going to Inde Navarrette — the "Obsession" breakout ($488M box office) landing this role instead of the widely-predicted Mystique is the biggest swing of the whole announcement.

Whoever's playing Professor X — the moral center of the team, and the casting that has to nail both quiet authority and real vulnerability for the whole ensemble to click.

Mr. Sinister — a proper geneticist-villain who's been teased for years but never gotten a real live-action showcase. If they nail the menace here, it sets up the whole franchise's antagonist arc.

Emma Frost — she has to sell both the ice-diamond mutant powers and the sharp telepath/socialite personality at once, which is a tough tonal needle to thread on screen.

Jean Grey — arguably the highest-stakes role of all, since any hint of a future Phoenix/Dark Phoenix arc means this actor needs range that goes from restrained to cosmic-level intense.