Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-1895174-20180331193141

Not to get too far off the MCU again, but this is interesting:

According to The Tracking Board, Jon Hamm was going to play Mr. Sinister in a tag at the end of The New Mutants until Fox changed their minds. Now Antonio Banderas will appear as a different, unspecified villain at the end. Furthermore, Warlock was in an earlier draft of the script until Fox thought he was too expensive (Fant4stic, anyone?).

Warlock is the character who was rumored to be added to New Mutants in that first round of re-shoots that pushed the movie back to February. So is it not him? And does anyone really expect Disney to make a sequel to this? How much of Fox's X-Men and X-Men-adjacent franchises will survive the acquisition? Including a new villain (much less Mr. Sinister) in a sequel tag at the end just seems pointless now.

The other thing is - Fox pushed back against the horror elements in New Mutants, but then they had the first trailer cut to emphasize those elements after IT's huge success. So now the director has to go back and reshoot the movie to make it more of a straight horror movie like he originally wanted to match the tone of that trailer.