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Here is a poster that I have made with a mixture of AI and Photoshop for my Fancast of the Marvel Studios reboot of the X-Men in the MCU. It features

Laurence Fox as Scott Summers / Cyclops

Simon Callow as Charles Xavier/ Professor X

Aidan Turner as James Logan Howlett/ Wolverine

Freema Agyeman as Ororo Munroe / Storm

Matt Berry as Hank McCoy/ Beast

Rachel Stevens as Alison Blaire/ Dazzler

Noel Fielding as Kurt Wagner/ Nightcrawler

David Djemal as Bobby Drake/ Iceman

Maiya Silvestone as Kitty Pryde/ Shadowcat

Gal Gadot as Emma Frost / The White Queen

Joanna Zwierzynska as Raven Darkholme/ Mystique

Jarek Ciepichal as Victor Creed / Sabretooth

Mike Fielding as Mortimer Toynbee/ Toad

Rich Fulcher as Blob/ Fred Dukes

James Buckley as St John Allerdyce/ Pyro

It’s seems more and more likely that Sadie Sink is playing Jean Grey (I’m still holding out hope she’s Firestar, Rachel Cole, or a genderbent Mindworm.)

So, I thought: Let’s fan-cast the X-Men (again) around her… My preferred initial X-Men lineup for the MCU would be the Ultimate X-Men roster around the Bendis and Vaughn era of the comic run. (Minus Wolverine and Kitty Pryde…)

The Ultimate X-Men roster I’d follow is: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Dazzler. I’d add Siryn too.
(The 2nd film can introduce Kitty, Gambit, and Braddock/Psylocke. The 3rd can introduce Wolverine.)

In the past I’ve said I wanted Siryn instead of the common choices like Kitty and Jubilee, but only if Banshee can be a teacher in the school (played by David Tennant). I think the legacy aspect of their relationship could be mined for the movie. I would round out the school’s faculty with the Deadly Genesis characters.. (That can be a different post.)

In my version, Dazzler is only meant to be introduced as a cameo. Maybe a battle scene takes place during one of her concerts allowing for some light spectacle that outs the pop star as a mutant. She doesn’t have to join the team, but she can have a co ol moment where she helps during the battle. So, Siryn and Dazzler’s roles should be minor in order to explore them further later.

My choices:
Siryn: Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place; Pretty Lethal) who was originally my top choice for Jean, but do you understand why a Deaf actress would make sense for Siryn?!
Dazzler: Sabrina Carpenter (The Hate U Give; Work It) People forget she’s also a great actress, and honestly was my initial choice for Jean too, but I think now she’s too big a pop star. Perfect stunt casting!)

Rogue should also be a minor role because I believe she should start out as a villain… and with my idea of having Mystique in the picture, this could contrast Banshee and Siryn perfectly. My choice for her is Inde Navarrete who is making headlines with Obsession. I know her best from Superman and Lois, and she’s an amazing talent.

If you’ve noticed, I believe the cast should be in their early 20s or teens. Which is why my choice for one of the youngest X-Men, Iceman, is Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place; Hamnet) who is honestly one of the best young actors working today.

Beast & Angel are both the easiest and hardest to cast as they are not as specific (personality/ethnicity-wise) as others.

Then there’s Colossus and Nightcrawler who are totally specific: A Russian strong guy with a huge heart and a German funny and religious guy.

Here are my choices:
Beast: Amir Wilson (His Dark Materials; Letters for the King)
Angel: Asher Angel (Shazam!)
Colossus: George Hawkins (Starfleet Academy)
Nightcrawler: Wyatt Oleg (It; I’m Not Okay With This)

Last, but not least… The two most prominent leaders of the X-Men. Cyclops needs to be a stoic leader and Storm should irradiate weather godess.

So I have a few options for each:

Cyclops
Griffin Gluck (Locke & Key; Tall Girl)
Ajay Parikh-Friese (Lost in Space)

Storm
Priah Ferguson (Stranger Things)
Thuso Mbedu (The Woman King)

What do you guys think of my X-Men fan-cast?

UPDATE: I meant to list 2028 as the year film will release.

‘X-MEN: SINISTER’

Act I

In 2016, Nathaniel Essex works on Project: Black Womb where he and Dr. Kurt Marko, the future father of Juggernaut, research and monitor mutant bloodlines. Four years later, Essex discovers the nine-year-old Jean Grey and becomes obsessed with her abilities. He arranges for her parents to be killed, so that she’d be placed into his orphanage, The State Home for Foundlings, but before he can carry out the plan, Charles Xavier recruits Jean as his first student.

Shortly after, Essex discovers young mutants Scott and Alex Summers, who were brutally injured in a plane crash that also killed their parents. Essex disguises himself as a doctor at the hospital Scott and Alex are being treated at, experiments on them both, allows Alex to live at The State Home for Foundlings, and causes Scott to slip into a coma to further research his powers and genetic makeup. Eventually, Scott wakes up and joins his brother at the orphanage.

Years later in the present year of 2028, Professor Charles Xavier has fully established The School for Gifted Youngsters, which is attended by Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake, Henry McCoy, and Warren Worthington III, who now fight crime as Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Beast, and Angel. They recently prevented Xavier’s longtime rival and former partner Erik Lensherr aka Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants, which includes Alex Summers aka Havok, from taking over the world and enslaving the human race.

With Magneto and his team now being held at The Raft, where he’s held in a plastic cell built specifically for him, Professor X uses Cerebro to search for other mutants across the globe. Scott and Jean track Storm, Rogue, and Colossus down and recruit them to attend Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. Professor X also discovers the existence of two other mutants, twins Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, the children of Magneto.

Act II

Now operating as the villainous Mister Sinister, Nathaniel Essex forms a team of mutants known as the Marauders, which includes Sabretooth, Arclight, Blockbuster, Harpoon, and Malice, and orders them to attack the X-Men and capture Jean Grey. In their first confrontation with the X-Men, the Marauders successfully best them and capture Jean, delivering her to Mister Sinister.

Sinister forces Jean to remain in a comatose state, so he can extract her DNA to create a clone and ultimately harness her immense power.
New students Ororo Munroe, Piotr Rasputin, and Anna Marie are forced to join the X-Men as Storm, Colossus, and Rogue to attempt a rescue mission of Jean Grey. Mister Sinister dispatches the Marauders to stop the X-Men from retrieving Jean, and a battle ensues where Iceman is severely injured.
Having no other choice, Professor X decides to ask Magneto for help.

Professor X and the X-Men break Magneto, Mystique, Toad, Havok, and Mastermind out of The Raft.

Act III

With the help of Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants, Professor X and the X-Men locate Jean Grey and rescue her from Mister Sinister. When they arrive to free her, they discover that Sinister has already created a clone of Jean, and they are unable to tell which is the original. Both versions of Jean leave with the others.

Still unable to decipher who is the original or the clone, both Jeans stay behind at the X-Mansion for Professor X to evaluate, while the rest of the mutants leave to confront Mister Sinister.
During the final confrontation with Sinister and the Marauders, the X-Men and Brotherhood struggle to defeat them. Eventually, the Jean Grey that Xavier believes to be the original joins the fight, using her telekinesis to defeat Mister Sinister while the others best the Marauders. He is then arrested and imprisoned at The Raft.

In the aftermath of the final battle, Professor X once again attempts to recruit Magneto and his Brotherhood to join the X-Men and teach and attend his School for Gifted Youngsters. He declines, but Havok stays behind as Magneto and the rest of the Brotherhood depart to search for his long lost children.

The Jean that Xavier believes to be the clone created by Mister Sinister departs to find her place in the world.

In the final sequence, Scott Summers and Hank McCoy are shown recruiting Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler, Sean Cassidy aka Banshee, and Jubilation Lee aka Jubilee to enroll at the School for Gifted Youngsters.

In the post-credits scene, Remy LeBeau aka Gambit meets Logan aka Wolverine in a bar, where they begin to argue. The final shot shows them gearing up to fight.

I thought this would clear up any confusion on when the films and shows take place in

Edit: To give more context, the reason the architecture and fashion in legion looks vintage/ nostalgic is because most of the buildings and architecture was destroyed by magneto in X men apocalypses. So many buildings and entire cities were destroyed in that film, millions died.

The reason the fashion is more nostalgic is because people started looking at the past for inspiration. since the future looks so bleak.

Legion also fits in, when you put charles fighting in the korean war. In the show, we see charles in a war which puts him in a mental hostpital. It would make more sense if Charles was in the Korean war. Plus it makes what he tells Erik "Killing will not bring you peace" More impactful because charles has actually killed people in war.

Legion being in the timeline also improves X men 3, since at the end of the movie Charles puts his mind into a new body. Something he learned from the shadow king, since he did the same thing in Legion.

Edit 2: The reason why there's almost no mutants in deadpool 1 and 2 and why the X mansion is empty is because mutants are slowly dying off, which we find out in Logan.

In deadpool and wolverine, deadpool goes to a reality that's exactly the same as timeline C, but mutants never die off, plus we know this is a different reality since his friends that died in the 2nd movie are suddenly alive.

 I have an idea for a song in a: Rogue (Anna Marie) and Gambit (Remy LeBeau) centric movie, whether it's an X-men movie focused mainly on Rogue and Gambit and their relationship or if it's a just their own movie. The song idea I have that I think perfectly represents Rogue and Gambit and their upbringings is "Orange Blossoms" by JJ Grey and Mofro. I just think it perfectly captures that southern feeling and it talks about love and the tragedy of it. While making this I imagined this song playing and then transitioning to a live band playing as we cut to the first scene of the movie. What I had in specific was a flashback of Anna Marie's childhood, where she’s at a concert with her childhood love, whether it be her and Gambit ( they didn’t meet this early in the comics, so probably no) or Cody (the boy she kissed when her powers first awakened). I really think this is a great song choice. Like this as the intro song.