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EXCLUSIVE:While there was no mention of X-Menin Comic-Con’s Hall H this past weekend, Marvel Studios seems to be getting closer to forming its team of Mutants.ma Frost in the upcoming X-Menmovie. After meeting with a number of candidates, director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige landed on Weaving earlier this week to tackle the role
Marvel had no comment on the casting
While James Bond has had everyone’s attention this summer, the most active casting process has been who will play the new team of Mutants. While Schreier and Marvel execs have been meeting and auditioning actors for a number of roles, with the Frost character appearing to elicit the most thorough search among the new cast
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The final list of actors tested for the role right after July 4th. At the end of the day, Weaving’s audition was too hard to beat
Frost is a telepathic Mutant who first showed up in X-Mencomics in the 1980s and has evolved over the years, going from supervillain to a key member of the X-Men. On the film side, she most recently was played by January Jones in 2011’s X-Men: First Class
This latest development is sure to excite fans of the franchise who have been begging for a new X-Men movie since Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox and its library in 2019. The X-Men universe was by far the most popular and profitable Marvel IP that Fox controlled, counting seven films and a successful Wolverine spinoff franchise that produced three more
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The new project gained momentum last spring when Schreier was tapped to direct, followed by Beefcreator Lee Sung Jin and The Bearco-creator Joanna Calo hired to pen the script
Weaving already is having herself a big 2026. In March, she led Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the sequel to the 2019 hit horror-comedy Ready or Not, which saw her step back into the role of fierce protagonist Grace MacCaullay. The sequel achieved an audience approval rating of 90%, a rare feat for a horror/thriller genre film, and grossed three times its production budget within a single day of its May 5 digital release, climbing to the No. 1 spot on Hulu and ranking high globally on Disney+
She followed with IFC’s Over Your Dead Body, winner of a SXSW Audience Award, which she co-led opposite Jason Segel
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In June, Sam starred in the romantic crime thriller Carolina Caroline, which was named a NYT Critics’ Pick and sits at 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Weaving is repped by CAA and 111 Media
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