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 Will Play Main Villain Of X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, Could It Be Graydon Creed?

Remember when I originally stated that Bryan Singer would be looking at Peter Dinklage for a villain role in X-Men Days of Future Past? Others had him pegged as Alpha Flight member Puck in an already overloaded film of mutants heroes. It turns out my hunch was on the right track, as Variety says that Peter has landed the main villain role. They don't name the villain but it's likely we could see him has Nathaniel Essex (Mr. Sinister), En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse) or Sentinels/Master Mold.

It's possible he could be playing a anti-mutant human villain that helps develop the Sentinel program. Finishing the job that William Stryker (Brian Cox) started in X2. Trask (creator of the Sentinels) played by Bill Duke (Predator, Commando) shows up in X3 but isn't revealed as inventor of the Sentinels. I could see them use another character instead, Graydon Creed could be that character. The son of Sabertooth and Mystique, Graydon is abandoned when it's apparent he wasn't a mutant. He becomes apart of the anti-mutant movement heading up the group Friends of Humanity, known for hate crimes against mutants and their human supporters. It's possible FOH could push the government to finally enact the Sentinel program with Creed overseeing it. The mutant registry was already shown in X2 and could return in the new film.

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.