During a recent interview with Coming Soon, the Mark Strong revealed that he was, in fact, director Mathew Vaughn’s first pick to play the leader of the Hellfire Club in the X-Men prequel. The reason behind it, however, seemed to be Mark Strong’s ability to speak German:
Matthew Vaughn did ask me to do X-Men: First Class. There was a bad guy in X-Men that Kevin Bacon played. Because I speak German it just seemed so logical having worked with him that I would play that part.
He then explained that he turned the X-Men role down because he had played a few too many villains at that point:
I think I had just done Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes and it had been just too many bad guys very recently. So that one we didn’t go down the path of that.
From the look of things, we may have had a very different X-Men movie had Mark Strong taken the role!
What do you all make of this news? Would you like to have seen Mark Strong play Sebastian Shaw? Was Kevin Bacon the right man for the part? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Here is a plot synopsis for Mark Strong’s latest film, Shazam!:
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).
Directed by David F. Sandberg, Shazam! stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Grace Fulton, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Cooper Andrews, Marta Milans, and Ron Cephas.
Shazam! will be released in theaters on April 5, 2019.
Source: Coming Soon.net
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