Oh, I don't know... I have a great deal of respect for Sigourney Weaver as an actress, and she's certainly had her share of bitchy roles. But I can't right now see her as Emma Frost.

But it's early days for the rumours yet. I was hoping for either the Hellfire Club or Mr Sinister (difficult to do visually, but great character) as established villians who would put a different spin on the pattern of the films so far. I've never liked the sentinels, and I don't see how it differs sufficiently from the mutant registration threat of the first movie and the mutant genocide of the second. Where as the Hellfire Club gives us mutants without a political agenda, in it only for the personal wealth and power they can scrape together. Likewise, Sinister has no grand plan, unlike Magneto or Stryker, but his experiments on mutants and humans alike for scientific gain add horror. Besides, I want the Victorian flahbacks


(And dammit, I was hoping Halle Berry was going to get fed up and leave, but the Empire article says everyone is still on board.)

Well, I agree with the Sigourney bit; she's a good actor and all, but Emma Frost?!? For a start, just imagine a) the English accent, and b) if it's the current incarnation of Emma, the love scenes with James Marsden...

I thought the sentinels could work, with a bit of a revamp for believeability's (sp?) sake (heh, talking about realism alongside a guy who fires lasers out of his eyes and people who can control the weather... *snigger*) I dunno much about the Hellfire club and I'm not too keen on the dress sense either, tho' like the sentinels ("Halt, mutant gene trash!'') a reimagining could work... And I kinda like Sinister, especially if they're still throwing the Ragin' Cajun into the mix... oh, the possibilities!

<-- closest here to a geek smiley...

(Edited by Alan 02/10/2004 14:56)