Despite a long and varied career in shows like Mad Men and films including Baby Driver, actor Jon Hamm remembers a role he never got to play despite his keen interest: X-Men villain Mister Sinister.
Starting off an interview with Yahoo!, Hamm addressed the rumor that he might have joined 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise as Nathaniel Essex, aka Mister Sinister, one of the uncanny mutant team's diabolical enemies. "I never shot anything," the actor revealed. "I remember having a conversation with people: I'm a huge comic book fan, especially of the X-Men and The New Mutants, so I was excited to be considered. But these conversations happen and then life intervenes."
This admission finally debunks a report that Hamm had shot a post-credits scene for the oft-delayed 2020 film New Mutants. That report hinted that Hamm had actually shot footage as Mister Sinister for director Josh Boone, which was then lost in one of the many postponements the film endured. Antonio Banderas was even speculated to have taken on the role after Hamm in the same report, but his involvement was later revealed to be to introduce a different villain altogether, Emmanuel da Costa of the Hellfire Club.
Both of these introductions were scrapped when hopes for a sequel dissipated. In a separate interview, Boone discussed how plans for a post-credit scene had long been a part of the film. "We had always planned to have a tag at the end of the movie that introduced the villain for the next movie," he said. "We even had an actor cast, but because of the merger and because Marvel owns X-Men now and is going to do their own thing, there was no reason to go shoot it."
Mister Sinister first appeared in the pages of Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men in the 1980s. Born in Victorian London, Essex is a biologist and is inspired by the work of his contemporary Charles Darwin. He becomes obsessed with the idea of a superhuman, and after learning about the existence of mutants, teams up with Apocalypse, another long-standing foe of the X-Men. Eventually, Essex becomes a super-powered being and mutant in his own right, thanks to endless experimentation and a host of clone bodies.
The New Mutants had a host of issues making it to theaters, a struggle brought to mind recently for fans when another Marvel-based film had its own raft of delays. In January, the seventh shift in release date for Morbius, Sony's film featuring the Living Vampire, put it ahead of the five that New Mutants endured.
Source: Yahoo!