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X-Men finds its first MCU member as Emma Frost gets cast, per reports
Samara Weaving will play the White Queen according to new reports about Marvel Studios' X-Men reboot
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Fittingly on the day that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is officially released in the US, news breaks that Marvel has found one of its core X-Men cast for its upcoming reboot of the franchise, with Samara Weaving being reported as signing on to play Emma Frost.
Deadline is reporting that Weaving — whom audiences will know from the Ready or Not movies, as well as playing Thea Preston in the criminally underrated Bill & Ted Face the Music back in 2020 — will play the villain-turned-antihero who has gained an increasingly prominent place in the franchise over the past couple of decades.
Per Deadline, a number of actors screentested for the role in early July, but “at the end of the day, Weaving’s audition was too hard to beat.”
Weaving’s casting is notable not only in itself, but also because it’s the first character confirmation for the movie that has been reported to this point. With a team roster that goes back six decades and contains hundreds of characters, it’s remained a mystery to this point just which X-Men would feature in the new movie. (Audiences who have already seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day might have a clue for a second character, although they’ve not been confirmed for any future appearances at this point.)
X-Men (the movie) has been in the works for more than a year at this point, with the creative team of Netflix’s Beef at the helm. It’s reported to be a character-based drama inspired by the soap operatics of the classic 1980s and ‘90s comics.
No official release date has been announced for Marvel’s X-Men movie. Indeed, Marvel Studios has yet to officially announce if it’s even working on one.
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