‘The New Mutants’ Almost Featured Jon Hamm As Mr. Sinister
By Jacob Hall/March 30, 2018 2:20 pm EST
Oh, and it also reveals that Mad Men star Jon Hamm was, at one point, going to appear as classic X-Men villain Mr. Sinister. But not anymore.
Jon Hamm as Mr. Sinister
Interestingly, the report adds that the tag will still exist, but it will be a completely different villain, this one played by Antonio Banderas. Also of note when it comes to deleted New Mutants characters: the character of Warlock, a mutant mechanical organism with the power to infect living creatures with a techno-organic virus, was in the original script, but was cut because he would have been too expensive to realize on screen.
Does this mean we’ll never get to see Mr. Sinister, an immortal telepath and iconic X-Men baddie, in a movie? I doubt it. He’s too major of a bad guy and he’d look great on the big screen. And you know what? Jon Hamm is a great fit for a genetically altered scientific genius with a bone to pick with mutant kind. Maybe we’ll see him in another movie yet.
More On Those Reshoots
So the reshoots are focused on making the film scarier and gnarlier, elements that Boone was originally forced to tone down during production. In other words, the silver lining to all of this chaos may be that Boone gets to make a movie closer to what he wanted to make in the first place, before a Fox-appointed writers’ room drastically reworked the original script he wrote with Knate Lee.
As of now, The New Mutants is set to open on August 2, 2019.
