Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-3048593-20180331215213

Chastain did confirm that she's not playing Lilandra, and if she were to play a Skrull I don't think it would be a female Super-Skrull (maybe Veranke but that's more of an Avengers character, and I'm not an expert so I can't think of any prominent female Skrull characters), since I think that would be kind of a wasted use of the character (which is not a surprising thing coming from Fox in general) since he's heavily tied to the Fantastic Four down to his powers (in the 'Marvel vs. Capcom 3', he is seen as the character who is "4 characters in one", since he's the excuse as to why none of the Fantastic Four members are individually playable characters).

And if DC fans were to complain about gender swapping for that character specifically for that movie, it would be dumb on their part since 1. It's Fox and not Marvel Studios (Marvel shouldn't be held accountable for questionable things other companies have done with their character rights), and 2. Miss Sinister is an actual character from the comics, so it's not a case of "forced diversity" or affirmative action (that some people complain about).

And yeah, I do agree that aliens aren't really necessary for what they have established in their movies, since they've stayed on earth for all of them, and made an effort to make Jean Grey's Phoenix powers related to her mutant powers than being something extraterrestrial, although that might be something they just retcon just for the sake of it (continuing the trend of X-Men movies' timeline and continuity not making much sense). To introduce aliens this late in the game, when they haven't been properly established before (especially when compared to what Marvel's been doing), might end up being jarring. And they could've stuck with just having extraterrestrial stuff for the Fantastic Four movies they have rights to, but they have already ruined the good will of people trusting those movies in doing anything correctly under Fox.