First Official Look At A Sentinel And Peter Dinklage As Trask From X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

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Peter Dinklage Confirmed For Villain And Sentinel Inventor Bolivar Trask In X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

MTV is confirming that Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) will play Sentinel (Master Mold) creator and major X-Men villain Bolivar Trask in X-Men Days of Future Past. It had been reported he would play the villain but this new film will likely change a few major problems from X3. As Bill Duke (Predator) played Trask in X3 but will be rebooted in this new film.

Peter Dinklage Officially Joins X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, Who Could He Be Playing?

Bryan Singer has taken to Twitter again to reveal the first new addition to the cast of X-Men Days of Future Past. He's brought on Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage on board but hasn't named his character. While fans assume because of his height he's automatically a shoe-in for French Canadian Alpha Flight member Puck, that might not be the case. The film has enough heroes involved with the massive amount of returning mutants including a large chunk of the surviving cast from X3, to start throwing in side characters like Puck.

Usually, when Singer hires an actor of this quality and is as recognizable it's for a villain role. Think, Ian McKellen, Brian Cox and Kevin Bacon, and you'll understand were I'm going. Dinklage is easily one of most talented people on television and it's unlikely he would take on a small cameo role. There are plenty of heroes and at this point Magneto (Fassbender) and Mystique (Lawrence) haven't fully gone to the darkside yet. They would need a new Shaw or major anti-mutant baddie for this next installment. It's possible Peter could fill those shoes there are a couple of roles he could be playing.

Singer recently spoke to MTV about bringing in an all CGI character and mentioned perhaps using similar techniques from Jack The Giant Slayer. Giving the impression that the Sentinels could be done with motion capture. I wouldn't be totally shocked to see Peter hired to give life to the Sentinels and give them a recognizable voice as well. This could include a double role as new take on the Trask villain or another human responsible for the creation of the Sentinels and Master Mold. Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse could also be threats in the future along trying to chance events in the past.

If Peter was playing an X-Men member afterall, I'd assume he be better suited for a role like uber genius Forge. Adding Forge makes more sense because he could be responsible for either finding a way to time-travel or a way to put down the Sentinels with a virus or technology. Two other possibilities include Senator Kelly's son or Brotherhood of Mutants member Toad.

Bryan Cranston Could Have Played The Villain In 'X-MEN FIRST CLASS'

While you may think that Bryan Cranston (John Carter, Total Recall, Drive, ) aims to be in every big film during an interview with Collider he reveals he turned down a rather big film. Bryan says he had been offered the role of Sebastian Shaw the leader of the Hellfire Club and villain of X-Men First Class while looking at another project. He weighed the two roles by how much he liked the characters and went with Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive instead. He mentions there was another role offered which I'd have assume was Stryker.

I read for the Kevin Bacon role in X-Men: First Class. And it was like, “Ah, there’s a possibility. ” Then there was this thing happening over here. It’s kind of like things coming up like materials and projects that are coming in and out. Quite often, it’s almost like a wave. “Here it comes, here it comes. . . oh no, that wave didn’t break. ” Why? Funding went this way, the lead dropped out, any number of things can happen. Or the studio says it’s too much money. Projects ebb and flow all the time, and the same thing in an actor’s career. There’s interest, and there’s ebbing and flowing all the time. “You have the offer! Oh, no you don’t. ” So, that was happening. They offered it to Kevin, and they offered me a different role in it.


At the same time, I read Drive, and I thought, “Oh, this is what I’d rather do. ” I turned down X-Men for the role in Drive because I liked the character better. Much better. The experience with Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman and Carey [Mulligan]—it was terrific. We had a great time. What was so much fun about it is that we’d go over to Nicolas Refn’s, the director’s, house in the canyons, and we’d all get together with the writer, and we would pitch out ideas and thoughts. “What about this? What about that? ” There’s nothing more satisfying than to have your thoughts and comments welcomed and incorporated in the script. So, we really feel ownership and part of that. You’re not just a hired hand, coming in, doing your job, and leaving. And Nicolas took a real kind of film noir, European feel to it, and it’s really hip and cool.


SOURCE: Collider

Cranston has a massive following thanks to Breaking Bad which is going into it's last season. I'm sure he'll be pursued again by Fox for the First Class sequel. If the sequel is taking cues from Days of Future Past we could see humans becoming the villains creating the Sentinels. Scientists Bolivar Trask and Stephen Lang are some of the people involved with the creation of the Sentinels.

Trask had appeared in X3 played by Bill Duke (Predator, Commando) and his character is credited for building Magneto's prison and the mutant prisoner transport which held Raven, Juggernaut and Multiple Man. First Class is a reboot of sorts so I wouldn't be shocked to see Trask retooled.