The Channing Tatum ‘Gambit’ Movie Was Supposed To Feature X-Men Villain Mister Sinister
By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST
During a watch-along even of X-Men: Days of Future Past with with IGN, Kinberg dropped some trivia about the future plans for 20th Century Fox’s now-dead X-Men franchise. Kinberg revealed that the end credits sequence from X-Men: Apocalypse was supposed to set up Mister Sinister, a notorious gene-splicing villain who has frequently clashed with the X-Men:
The post-credits scene, if you remember, followed a group of men in black suits as they visit the Weapon X facility to retrieve an X-ray and blood sample marked “Weapon X” on behalf of the Essex Corporation. The involvement of Weapon X lead many believe the post-credits scene was related to 2017’s Logan, but the Essex Corp. does indeed have ties to Mister Sinister. Mister Sinister is a “19th Century scientist Nathaniel Essex was genetically mutated by Apocalypse, who shared his philosophy of Social Darwinism. Becoming the immortal Mister Sinister, he is perhaps the greatest geneticist in the world; capable of cloning, creating, enhancing, and controlling mutant abilities,” according to Comic Vine.
Kinberg clarifies that no one was ever cast in the role of Mister Sinister, so you can put to bed those rumors that Jon Hamm would appear as the villain in New Mutants. Honestly, it’s all par for the course for a movie that was so long embattled as Gambit was.
