Deadline is reporting that X-Men: First Class has scored another mutant: Alice Eve is in talks to play Emma Frost in the prequel.
I only know Eve from She’s Out of My League, where I found her kind of generic, wooden and, weirdly enough, just like an 8.5 out of 10 (although since the movie was set in Pittsburgh maybe she’s a Pittsburgh 10/10. Living in LA and NYC has really jaded me when it comes to empty, beautiful actress and model types. I expect more!). She’s done plenty of other work, though, and hopefully it’s something in those roles that spoke to director Matthew Vaughn.
Emma Frost has had many incarnations in the X-Men comic. Her inclusion here indicates to me that X-Men: First Class is going to be trying to follow the X-Men Origins: Wolverine continuity, which feels weird even as I guess it makes perfect sense. Frost was, in the past, an evil mutant given to wearing very, very skimpy bondage outfits and going under the guise of The White Queen. She’s one of those characters who has mental powers that are completely open to reinterpretation from issue to issue by the writers; lately she’s also been able to turn her skin into diamonds. That seems to be what the Wolverine Emma Frost could do as well.
One thing I’ll bet – Emma Frost will be in the movie creating a schism between young Jean Grey and young Scott Summers. In Grant Morrison’s run on X-Men Frost and Summers had a thing going on, and dramatically it makes sense to include that in this prequel.
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hot. doesn't look 28 at all..
Guy Pierce's sister? Lookitdatmouth
Devin — you need to go to 1-800 contacts. Clearly you need your eyesight augmented. This dame is HOT.
Frost is supposed to be beautiful, smart and sexy…so one out of three with this casting? I'd have went with someone with talent and the right age, like Jennifer Lawrence.
Wait, that diamond girl was supposed to be Emma Frost? Looks like Deadpool almost didn't get the worst treatment. Almost.
I wanted Rosamund Pike so bad in this role!!!! I still want her, regardless. But still!!!!! Damn it Vaughn! If you weren't such a great director I'd…I'd…
she was great in Starter for Ten, which also starred the soon to be bald James Mcavoy.
The continuity and respective ages of the characters involved in this project all make my head hurt.
Am I wrong, or weren't they going for a younger cast? I was under the impression the X-Men were going to be late teens to early twenties. Why cast a chick who looks middle-aged?
I'd fuck.
She's definitely a Pittsburgh 10. But then, people tend to be uglier in that part of the country.
I just recently started getting work on some films shot in the Pittsburgh area, and I got my first gig because they were looking for people from Pittsburgh, just not people that LOOKED like they were from Pittsburgh. I don't know if that has more to do with the Pittsburgh/Everywhere Else ratio (I'm not actually from here), or if it's because Pittsburgh was supposed to be passing for Chicago in those scenes. "Love and Other Drugs", playing in theaters everywhere this November!!!
Just to be a geek here, but Emma Frost could make her skin diamond hard for a long, long time. It just never came up all that often. But yeah, since the early 90's at least.
Ugh! I've always hated Emma Frost in the comics. As a villain she's eye candy and that's it. As a "hero", she's annoying and nothing like anyone Xavier would hire to teach his kids (and this guy hired Magneto!).
I keep seeing all of this early news and casting info for this movie, and I gotta ask- is there anyone out there really excited for this? How does this feature not scream, "One more cash grab for a franchise that's been theatrically run into the ground"? Film geeks owe more to themselves than to fawn over this drivel.
this will be the geekiest thing I ever write, but Scott and Emma are an item in the comics, and have been ever since the Morrison run. They may even be married by now.
Emma Frost (particularly as written by Grant Morrison, as a sadisticly sarcastic posh British chick who gets very open to suggestions from her boyfriend) is my favorite mutant. Thanks for fucking that up too, Fox. I need an adamantium bullet in my brain to forget about this.
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