X-MEN Villain Mr. Sinister Is Officially Coming To The Movie Universe

X-MEN Villain Mr. Sinister Is Officially Coming To The Movie Universe

We've known for a while now that Mr. Sinister won't be making an appearance in Logan, but it's been confirmed that Fox has plans for the iconic villain in the X-Men Universe somewhere down the line.

By JoshWilding - Feb 26, 2017 03:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Logan
Source: Cinema Blend
It's now been confirmed on multiple occasions that Mr. Sinister won't be making an appearance in Logan despite the fact that X-Men: Apocalypse seemingly set the stage for the iconic villain to appear in that movie. During a recent chat with Cinema Blend, producer Simon Kinberg admitted that the blood collected by those Essex Corp. employees does indeed set up Wolverine's final adventure.

In all honesty, that was to be expected, but with no physical appearance in Logan according to director James Mangold, what does the future hold for the iconic and thoroughly villainous Nathaniel Essex?


"The short answer is yes," Kinberg said when asked if Sinister will be making any big screen appearances in future. "We’d love to see Sinister. I think he is one of the great untapped villains in the X-Men universe, and we do have plans to introduce him into the world." What do those plans involve? For the time being, that obviously remains to be seen! 

It's easy to imagine him showing up in Deadpool 2, X-Force, or X-Men: Supernova given his obsession with the Summers family, and with Bryan Cranston making it clear that he wants to take on the role, here's hoping Fox gets the ball rolling on
Mr. Sinister sooner rather than later. Thoughts? 
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BatmanxBatgirl
BatmanxBatgirl - 2/26/2017, 3:20 PM
This doesn't mean anything.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/26/2017, 3:27 PM
@BatmanxBatgirl - exactly haha
Pathogen
Pathogen - 2/26/2017, 3:21 PM
Well that was clickbait. And I fell for it. Sigh.

I love Sinister. Just hope they give him better treatment than they have most of the other characters so far
TomSolo
TomSolo - 2/26/2017, 5:34 PM
@Pathogen - That is fairly easy to do. They've already started. Set him up in small tidbits in all the movies listed above... maybe even a minor role in one of them. In the meantime, set up all the main heroes as well... don't reboot or add too many each film. Then have him be the main villain in a film. Less time can be spent on fleshing out the heroes because that has been done in previous films. And more time can be spent on fleshing out Sinister in his film.

The other option would be to reboot again with all new actors playing different takes on the same characters and then bring in an amazing and complex villain like they did with Apocalypse and have no time to explain anything or anyone because there is a new group of heroes that all need explanations and backstories. Everything gets short-changed, and then you have wasted a great character. Like Apocalypse. He could have starred in a trilogy. Instead, he was poorly used in a jumbled film that even cb fans had trouble with since, again, so much was changed from the comics.
SwiggitySw00ty
SwiggitySw00ty - 2/26/2017, 6:21 PM
@TomSolo - You clearly have not read an Apocalypse story if you think he deserves a trilogy. He was a villian for the spin-off book X-Factor and has been barely used ever since.
TomSolo
TomSolo - 2/27/2017, 7:17 AM
@StanLee - I really like Apocalypse. He has a power set and history that could have made him been a major villain if done properly in the films. He's more interesting than to be used as just a one and done villain, and, to me at least, he was wasted in the way he was portrayed in the movie (and portrayed very poorly).

I would prefer that if studios want to make franchises out of CB characters that they have a sort of long term plan. Like I said about Sinister above, it would have been cool to have Apocalypse appear as a character in the background pulling some strings, revealed slowly over the course of a few films, and then had his own film. I remember really liking the way they did it in the 90's cartoon. Sure, it wasn't 100% CB accurate, but at least it wasn't 1 episode and then on to the next one.

In a way, comics are kind of like soap operas. They have many characters that have many plots, some of which are more or less important with each installment. The X-men are very much like this because of the size of the team. And while I enjoy some of the Fox movies, I feel that they have kind of missed out on the opportunity to really explore characters by not keep the same timeline throughout (or having a really convoluted one). But I guess hindsight is 20/20. Who knew CBM's were going to be this lucrative for this,long?

I guess that's why I feel most CBM's feel more like superhero films to me and not really comic book movies. But I guess studios would rather have instant payoff than attempt to set up a 30-film franchise over decades that cost hundreds of millions to produce each episode, and I understand.
SwiggitySw00ty
SwiggitySw00ty - 2/27/2017, 8:16 AM
@TomSolo - Oh, no. Apocalypse in the movie was portrayed almost exactly like his comic counterpart but only more powerful. Just read this comparison.

http://stay-tuned-true-believers.tumblr.com/post/150911716157/x-men-apocalypse-compared-to-the-comic-books

Fox seems to be building up Sinister as the pull the strings villian, which is accurate to the comics. I feel the 90s cartoon Apocalypse was just stealing Sinister's role.
SwiggitySw00ty
SwiggitySw00ty - 2/27/2017, 8:31 AM
@TomSolo - Also, there is something that has always bothered me about comic Apocalypse and 90s cartoon Apocalypse. Why didn't he take over the earth thousands of years ago?
TomSolo
TomSolo - 2/27/2017, 9:08 AM
@StanLee - Well, I'm not really sure I agree that he was the same. His power set was different, as was his looks and demeanor. He was just rather small. But regardless, on the 90's cartoon... it has been a while since I have seen those episodes, so I don't remember. Anyway, I really hope they play the long game with Sinister. He can be a very compelling character when written well.
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