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Jon Hamm almost played an iconic X-Men villain in a genuinely unlikely place
Jon Hamm as Mister Sinister in the New Mutants movie is somehow an even more cursed timeline than the one we're all currently in
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If you thought that today, you'd wake up and read "Jon Hamm" and "Mister Sinister" in the same sentence, I don't know what to tell you, but here we are.
So, remember that New Mutants movie that came out in 2020, three years after filming began for it? Where Anya Taylor-Joy played Magik and the villain was the Demon Bear? Well, now you remember. Originally, the villain of The New Mutants wasn't the Demon Bear, but a far bigger X-Men villain: Mister Sinister. And, as it turns out, Jon Hamm was in talks to play the role.
On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz asked Hamm to confirm if he was actually supposed to play Mister Sinister in The New Mutants. "Yeah, that was supposed to happen and didn't. I think there was some corporate craziness that went, and they sold the studio, and Disney bought the studio, it was a lot of stuff," Hamm said.
In case you're not familiar, Mister Sinister is one of the X-Men's deadliest foes and can best be described in Gen Z parlance as chopped (ugly), physically and spiritually. And no, I'm not being unusually cruel here, because Mister Sinister worked with Nazis like Josef Mengele and experimented on children during World War II in Marvel Comics. Sinister also kidnapped civilians and soldiers to experiment on during the Vietnam War. He's obsessed with eugenics, hence the company he keeps.
As you might expect, having Mister Sinister show up in a movie about The New Mutants would have been... a choice, but the same can be said for the rest of the movie.
To me, my X-Men fans. Want more about Marvel's mutants? You don't need Cerebro to find what you should read next... we made a list!
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