Fan-favorite X-Men character Emma Frost made her cinematic debut in 2011’s X-Men: First Class, performed by Mad Males and The Final Man on Earth star January Jones — but the morally ambiguous telepath virtually made it to screens lengthy earlier than that, with a completely totally different (but very well-known) actress in the body to play the function.
“We have been going to do X-Men 3 for a short while and our huge secret or coup was – and it’s not going to occur so it’s okay [to say] – we wished to have a character that was Emma Frost, a well-known X-Men character. She’s known as the White Queen,” screenwriter Dan Harris said in a 2004 interview after stepping away from the undertaking. “We have been going to ask Sigourney [Weaver] to be it.”
Harris was a part of the writing group for 2003’s X2, AKA X2: X-Men United, alongside Michael Dougherty and David Hayter, and had been a part of the group engaged on concepts for Bryan Singer’s third X-Men film earlier than the director — and writers — decamped to Warner Bros. to begin work on what would grow to be 2006’s Superman Returns.
It’s unknown what Emma Frost would have achieved in a potential third X-Men film, and even what aspect she would have been on — by 2004, the character, who’d began as a villain when launched in Eighties’s Uncanny X-Men #129, had joined the X-Men themselves and was one thing resembling a superb man… if a considerably reluctant one at occasions.
The actual sin, in fact, is that audiences never obtained to see Sigourney Weaver play Emma Frost, a task that she undoubtedly would have loved and used as an excuse to chew some close by surroundings. File that one away with the Nic Cage Superman film as an incredible instance of superhero casting that never ended up really occurring…