Rumors were flying around that Marvel may have wanted a POC to play the part of the new Charlie Xavier for the MCU, but it’s possible they could be sticking to keeping him Caucasian.
According to @MyTimeToShineH, Marvel is allegedly looking at Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) to be the new leader of the X-Men. We already know he can play the bald look, but it’s curious exactly what kind of Xavier he can deliver, seeing that he can either be ridiculously evil or all-around goofy.
Admittedly, we have to take this news with a grain of salt, seeing that MTTSH has had missteps in the past, but they’ve also reported some true things as well.
Personally, I was in the camp that wanted to revamp the origins of Professor X and Magneto so that they better exemplified more recent issues on discrimination. A popular fancast was for Giancarlo Esposito (surprisingly also in Breaking Bad) to be Xavier and Denzel Washington to be the new Magneto—with Magneto’s origin of being a holocaust survivor being switched to him surviving another kind of race war.
There are some who think that changing Magneto’s origin is a delicate matter, but there are some who believe that, to stay relevant, his origin could be changed so that the core issue is still discrimination—which was also at the heart of his holocaust survivor story.
I mean, if they wanted Magneto to be alive around that time, he would have to be incredibly old in the 2020s; and you can only go so far with the ‘his powers stop his aging’ or ‘he’s a time-traveller’ storyline.
Then again, I am just spit-balling here. For now, we have no idea when the proper X-Men reboot is going to be, but fans are expecting it after the events of Avengers: Secret Wars which comes out in 2027.
