EMPIRE Features : The NEXT X- MEN

[The Caped Knight]

X-MEN 4 (http://www.empireonline.com/features/nextmen/start.asp) possible cast

[TrailerMusic]

aaaahhhhhhhhhh a thread to be moved

[Dope Nose]

bah! some/most of their choices suck.

[Mic]

Arnie as apocolypse?

YEA BATMAN AND ROBIN 2: MR.FREZZES REVENGE!
Hahha ashley simpson as dazzler

John goodman as blob? Haha more like Roseanne

[DarknessOfDeath]

Nooooooo!

[BMM]

I got to Ashlee Simpson, and I had to stop.

[The Kid]

wow.

[Jan Irisi]

I got to Ashlee Simpson, and I had to stop.


Sadly, I kept going...I'm sorry I did. :mad:

[Cyke82]

John Goodman as the Blob, hahaha

[The Caped Knight]

Yeah their choice really suck .

[PWN3R]

W.T.F.

They are so stupid its amazing.

Paul Walker? Ashlee Simpson? Dear God the horror....:(

Triple H as Omega Red?! :mad:

John Goodman as the Blob?!

This can't be serious! rofl

[Crimson Warrior]

Did they just suggest Ashlee Simpson for Dazzler? WTF AND HHH for Omega red?

[Mic]

Karl Urban as Cable?
I can see it actually.

[PWN3R]

The Rock as Strong Guy?!?!

Empire.Fails.At.Life.

I dont want an X4 if those were the choices.

[PWN3R]

Nicole Kidman as Emma?!

No!

[Star]

hahahaha

but i do love the character pictures they've picked, they're all really nice.

[Mike059jig]

unsual cast...some are good some are too big of stars to be in x-men...

[bes628]

The Governator as Apocalypse made me automatically exit the website and they forever lose all credibility with me

[High Voltage]

Nicole friggin Kidman as Emma Frost?!?! :D Excuse me while I p**s myself lol

[GhostPoet]

Don't take it seriously guys...it's just their ideas...which seldom, if at all are used. :) They just pick the most popular people at the time.

[CapBeerCino]

Mr. Freeze as Apocolypse? Don't they learn?

[CapBeerCino]

And Ryan Reynolds in a x-movie? :D

[Crimson Warrior]

Don't take it seriously guys...it's just their ideas...which seldom, if at all are used. :)

Gee I woder why............lol :)

[ILuvCyclops]

God what an awful cast except James McAvoy, personal friend of the family :D

[The Caped Knight]

I think the only one from EMPIRE choices , that could possible work out is Josh Holloway as Gambit . nah ...... He made look the part to a certain degree but I can't see him as The Cajun

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2024%20-%20Gambit.jpg

[spider_man_2]

Emma Frost = Melissa George. There's no other way around it.

[_BB_]

you cant help but laugh at john goodman as blob :D

[The Caped Knight]

True it is funny lol.

[The Caped Knight]

Emma Frost = Melissa George. There's no other way around it.

You think Melissa could look like this ?

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2071%20-%20White%20queen.jpg

[logan_weapon_x]

Empire and Total Film tend to put slightly funny spins on things when they do these casting things.

[GhostPoet]

Professor X - Rosanne (ok, he had to jump to another body and it was the only one available without a mind)

Apocalypse - Mr. T.

[Darthphere]

Havok:Jensen Ackles

Gambit:Ian SOmerhalder

[PWN3R]

Emma Frost = Melissa George. There's no other way around it.

I could totally see that. :up:

[Destiny Is Near]

its BS its like a Wizard magazine casting call, all BS

[The Caped Knight]

Havok:Jensen Ackles

Gambit:Ian SOmerhalder

Those are good choices, Only thing is I'd switch it

Jensen as Gambit {he look's the part ,he can act the part} & Somerhalder as Havock .

[PWN3R]

You think Melissa could look like this ?

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2071%20-%20White%20queen.jpg

She would do good IMO.

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/2164/melissa009jc.jpg

[The Caped Knight]

Whoa !!! she look's the part , but can she act the part ?

[Darthphere]

Those are good choices, Only thing is I'd switch it

Jensen as Gambit {he look's the part ,he can act the part} & Somerhalder as Havock .


I picked Jensen as Havok because he looks like he would be Cyclops brother and Ian as Gambit since more or less the only reason is he looks like he can run around with the young kids especially Rogue, and hes from Louisiana.:up:

[The Caped Knight]

I picked Jensen as Havok because he looks like he would be Cyclops brother and Ian as Gambit since more or less the only reason is he looks like he can run around with the young kids especially Rogue, and hes from Louisiana.:up:

Good point, Exspect that Jensen has more of the badboy/charm etc... plus he's funny . like Gambit . Ian look's the part, but he doesn't seem like he could pull of the part .

[spider_man_2]

You think Melissa could look like this ?

http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Julie%20Bell/Julie%20Bell%20-%20Hard%20Curves%202001%20-%2071%20-%20White%20queen.jpg

Not really, no... But it's because that picture is awful IMHO. I see her, however, looking like this:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/mamilo/Emma-Frost-5-new-background.jpg

http://www.alias-tv.com/imgs/s3cast6.jpg

And as for her acting... She'd be perfect for the character. She was wicked and sexy in Alias season 3, and she has the British accent (I know she's from Boston but I can't picture Emma without it the way Joss Whedon writes her).

[Crimson Warrior]

I dont like Halloway for Gambit, sure he is a handsome guy and has "dreamy eyes" as some would say but I've always seen Gumbo as the tall and slender type about 5'10-6'2 . Halloway seems a little to muscular imo. Being orginally from New Orleans and the surrounding territories/parishes I can tell you that the accent varies from part to part, just being from there doesnt guarantee that you have the accent for Gambit.

[Destiny Is Near]

you guys may laugh but i say

Dan Cortez As Gambit, look him up (Look wise he is perfect)

[Superbeasto]

HHH as thor!!!

[spider_man_2]

No way!! Vladimir Kulich = Thor!

Anyway, Holloway works better as Gambit than that Dan Cortez guy... And Sinister should be played by Adam Baldwin. He is a big imposing guy and could totally pull of the creepiness.

[cookiva]

I kinda actually liked the Cannonball casting. Sure, you could get any generic southern drall guy, but Lucas Black showed me something in Jarhead that I cant put my finger to....

[PWN3R]

Whoa !!! she look's the part , but can she act the part ?

Oh yeah, she was a real ***** in Alias, she can act. Plus her accent is PERFECT for Emma.

[GoHF]

I like the irony of casting Sinister's role on an actor who is famous for playing Bishop.

Not really great choices, but then again the guy cast as the multiple man for X3 wasn't any look-alike either and it didn't make much of a difference.

The guy for Forge has some facial similarities, but I don't think he has the right build build. HHH has the body for Omega and maybe the hair if he were to let it grow, but he'd better take some acting lessons since omera red isn't a wrestler and the movie isn't RAW. Deadpool made me lol. His face is always covered by the mask, so they must really hate that actor to give him the part (well, everyone hates blade 3, so maybe that's it). Oh, and arnie wouldn't make such a bad apocalypse, since he'd have to be CG'd all the time... unless they actually plan on nerfing every oversized character like they did juggernaut, in which case: please Fox, stay away from any character that is above normal human stature in the comics.

It's time for an X4 forum, lest we risk burying this one under a pile of "Who's playing who and what's the plot gonna be" threads.

PS: Gambit will always make someone whine, won't he?

[gothicFLAVOURS]

Emma was killed when in her diamond form after being shot with a diamond bullet (clever). Beast saved her by, er, glueing her back together again. Which is slightly anticlimactic.
It wasn't just Beast who saved her by glueing her back together... it was Jean with the Phoenix force who joined the diamond bits...

I can't see Nicole Kidman as Emma, Emma needs to be more voluptous. I think Melissa George or Ivana Milicevic would definitely fit the part. As for Arnie, he's a big no no in X-Movies.

This is Ivana
http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/8444/4095f7b6ivanamilicevic37xo.th.jpg (http://img436.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4095f7b6ivanamilicevic37xo.jpg)

[okim08]

Mr. Sinister is right on with Empire's casting.

[Sun_Down]

Well...if that list was supposed to be a joke, then it was a hell of a joke. If they were even slightly serious, then I think I'm going to be sick.

The funniest part is that most of those horribly hilarious picks have been seriously suggested by Hypsters in the past.

[Slim_X]

I've alway thought Bridgette Wilson would be a great Emma.

[Anthony05]

Umm there is only one Bishop for me.

http://www.space-debris.com/and_cobb_coat.jpg

[lordofthenerds]

Ashley Simpson as dazzler and Arnold as Apocolypse?! I think they would support my signature. :o

[Darthphere]

Ashlee Simpson as Dazzler is brilliant IMO.....its too funny.

[BMM]

Ashley Simpson as dazzler and Arnold as Apocolypse?! I think they would support my signature. :o

Haha. Yeah, I think they would.

[Iceman]

McAdams I can cope with.

[Anthony05]

McAdams I can cope with.

She's extremely talented. I'd love to see her in any role to be honest.

[LuvinAlize]

Actually, I think Jimmy Smits as Forge wouldn't be that bad....But I'm willing to bet Forge will never be in an X-movie... Well, not until they're ready to go into time traveling universes with these movies... I just don't see it happening with how the current movies are setup....

[ginny_weasley]

I can't get through the whole list

*vomits*

Please, let these poor mutants rest in peace. I think enough damage has been done.

[TNC9852002]

LOL...Some of those casting choices are horrible..

Except for Bishop, Sunspot, Forge, and Cannonball...I like those picks and those characters.. :D

-TNC

[bes628]

i feel kinda bad admiting this but...

i think Triple H could pull off Omega Red as long as he dosent have to many lines.

and Jimmy Smits as Forge is pretty good but i doubt we ever see him.

[The Apocalypse]

I hope this list was for joking around.

[sparky_parker]

Made me laugh with the pick for Dazzler...

"A popular singer, dancer and actress in Hollywood, Dazzler is also a highly accomplished roller-skater."

So WTF were they smoking when they thought Ashlee Simpson!! lol
(she gonna do that creepy jig/dance when she ***ed up on SNL!?!?!? ;)lol)

I think Boy George has got more of a chance of being Dazzler than her!

[Avalanche]

We need Scarlet Witch in there somewhere. Liked the inclusion of Chamber too. Perhaps he and Mr Sinister could be somehow involved since they're both british, and Chamber is a character of which Mr Sinister would no doubt have some interest.

[Weadazoid]

Who is that Russian dude who LOOKS like Omega Red


Vladimir something I think

[spider_man_2]

We need Scarlet Witch in there somewhere. Liked the inclusion of Chamber too. Perhaps he and Mr Sinister could be somehow involved since they're both british, and Chamber is a character of which Mr Sinister would no doubt have some interest.

Wouldn't Chamber and Gambit strike the general public as being too similar? I'd prefer Gambit in X4 over Chamber, but a cameo would be cool.

[Avalanche]

Wouldn't Chamber and Gambit strike the general public as being too similar? I'd prefer Gambit in X4 over Chamber, but a cameo would be cool.
They're pretty different aren't they?

[Darthphere]

These choices just prove that Hollywood want's to f*** up the X-Men franchise.


Or at least Empire magazine.

[spider_man_2]

They're pretty different aren't they?

To us, they are. But possibly not to a non-fan audience.

[Kelso]

Oddly, Josh Holloway has been my top pick for Gambit. :D

[RagingTempest]

The Govenator as Apocalyse......HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA...NO!!!:down

John Goodman as Blob...NO, AGAIN!!! :down

Nicole Kidman is okay I guess!!

Triple H as Omega Red....NOOOOO!!!:eek: :down

Paul Walker as Longshot, maybe!!!

ASHLEY SIMPSON SHOULD NEVER ACT, SHE CAN'T EVEN SING!!! :down

The rest of the choices are passable!!!:up:

[Variant]

Man, I can't say I like any of Empire's choices. Some of them are just terrible.

Personally, I hope they recast the part Kitty Pryde (again) for X4, though that prolly won't happen - I think they're sticking with Paige.

I've always hoped they could get an actress like Emmy Rossum or Anne Hathaway to play Kitty Pryde. She's one of my favorite characters from the X-comics, and that's how I've always imagined she'd look like.

[Thunder Emperor]

Umm there is only one Bishop for me.

http://www.space-debris.com/and_cobb_coat.jpg
Got that right

[Anthony05]

Man, I can't say I like any of Empire's choices. Some of them are just terrible.

Personally, I hope they recast the part Kitty Pryde (again) for X4, though that prolly won't happen - I think they're sticking with Paige.

I've always hoped they could get an actress like Emmy Rossum or Anne Hathaway to play Kitty Pryde. She's one of my favorite characters from the X-comics, and that's how I've always imagined she'd look like.

I like Kitty being played by a more tomboy character. She's spunky in a way. Ellen that is. Emmy is too much of a lady and Anne is a little too old for me. Plus she's kind of ugly. I'm just biased because I loved Ellen as Kitty.

[Anthony05]

I just never thought she was pretty. She's not ugly. I just said kind of. Plus for movie's sake and how they chose to cast it I think it works with a younger girl as Kitty.

[MoPlaYa]

Xizibit should play Bishop IMO

[xwolverine2]

john goodman as blob!!!ROTFL!!

[Karea07]

all the actors they chose suck ass

[Specter313]

Man, I can't say I like any of Empire's choices. Some of them are just terrible.

Personally, I hope they recast the part Kitty Pryde (again) for X4, though that prolly won't happen - I think they're sticking with Paige.

I've always hoped they could get an actress like Emmy Rossum or Anne Hathaway to play Kitty Pryde. She's one of my favorite characters from the X-comics, and that's how I've always imagined she'd look like.

If Anne should play anyone, it should be Scarlet Witch.

[LEX]

Oh. My. God.

Ashlee Simpson? In an X-Men movie? God, no.

I could see Lucas Black as Cannonball. Melissa George would be PERFECT for Emma Frost. She has never even crossed my mind. Thanks.

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool -- I CANNOT see him as the character at all. No-no. :down I like the pic of Arnie that they used to match with Apoccy-lips, but no, no Arnie, please.

[DarknessOfDeath]

all the actors they chose suck ass

I agree

[Variant]

Oh. My. God.

Ashlee Simpson? In an X-Men movie? God, no.

I like the pic of Arnie that they used to match with Apoccy-lips, but no, no Arnie, please.
lol, no kidding. The very idea of Ashlee Simpson or Arnie being in an X-Men movie makes me want to retch. I can only assume Empire was just joking around with their list.

[Anthony05]

I like that. :D

For Emma Frost, I've been partial to Kelly Carlson.(Not Kelly Clarkson)

Yes, good choice. She's a good actress too.

[Specter313]

I like that. :D

For Emma Frost, I've been partial to Kelly Carlson.(Not Kelly Clarkson)

Too tiny. My choice is Stephanie Romanov. Lilah on Angel just screamed Emma.