The Marvel Cinematic Universe is always expanding, always moving forward, always coming for our time and our wallets. Marvel always needs new blood, which is why there are always rumors about this or that actor getting chosen to play the next big superhero or villain. A new rumor from scooper MyTimeToShineHello claims that Bella Ramsey, known for playing Lady Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones and Ellie on The Last of Us, is being targeted for a "big Marvel role."
Is this true? Who knows? Honestly, the MCU is so big it seems like every actor alive will become a part of it eventually, so this rumor may come true by sheer force of inertia sooner or later. As for who Ramsey might play, my mind wanders towards the X-Men, a super-team we know that Marvel is going to bring in sooner or later. What about Ramsey as Kitty Pryde, the young mutant who can phase through solid objects?
Meanwhile, scooper Daniel Richtman reports that Jeremy Allen White, star of The Bear, may also join the MCU. Again, I hear something like and just start wondering which X-Men character he could play. ComicBookMovie suggests the villainous Mr. Sinister, and I can see it.
White has talked about meeting with Marvel before. "I had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and I had an attitude. I think I played it all wrong," he told GQ in 2023. "'Tell me about why should I do your movie,' [I said]. They were like, 'F*** you.' And I was like, 'Right on.'"
White isn't above being in a big Disney franchise; next year he'll appear in the Star Wars movie The Mandalorian & Grogu as Rotta the Hutt, the son of giant alien blob person Jabba the Hutt. I can't say I'm not curious how that will work.
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The next big Marvel movie is The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which lands in theaters next month. That one stars Bella Ramsey's Last of Us costar Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic, the leader of this superhero team.
As ever, Pascal is having a huge year. He was at the center of a hugely buzzy episode of The Last of Us where his character, Joel, was brutally beaten to death. Apparently fans haven't let showrunner Craig Mazin forget it. “The big complaint that I’ve gotten is, ‘Why did you kill Pedro Pascal?’" Mazin told Variety. "And I keep explaining, we didn’t kill him! He’s a man, he’s alive. He’s fine. And he’s in literally everything else. So I don’t know what the problem is!”
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is out in theaters on July 25.
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