X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Thinks Idris Elba Should Play Bishop

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X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Thinks Idris Elba Should Play Bishop


By ADAM BARNHARDT - February 2, 2019

• Chris Claremont were to get his way, Idris Elba would be picking up another Marvel role before too long. The legendary Uncanny X-Men scribe took to Facebook to reveal some thoughts on another character Elba could play — and it's more than likely bound to make X-Men fans excited.
  
  According to Claremont, the writer thinks Elba is the picture-perfect actor to play Bishop, the time-traveling mutant first introduced in the 1990s.
  
  
  "Dang! I mean, *Dang!* Just saw the Hobbs & Shaw trailer," Claremont says in a post on his social media. "Aside from the fact that they’d make a great F&F team-up cross-over with John Wick, the total revelation is Idris Elba as, wait for it, the Bad Guy. I’m sorry, I find myself rooting for him because, well, he’s him."
  
  "And speaking purely from my X-perspective, he is *so* totally perfect for (my vision of) Bishop!" the writer continues. "Not to mention 007, bit that’s *so* another path entirely. Perhaps he could team-up with the Rock but if so who the heck could the studio find to prove a decent adversary? This could turn out to be a *very* enticing cinema summer …"
  
  
  The character's only appeared in live-action once so far, as Omar Sy played the time-travelingcharacter in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  
  Of course, Elba just finished his role as the Asgardians gatekeeper Heimdall, as he was killed off in Avengers: Infinity War. After appearing as the character five times in a growing role — Elba is more than likely done with the MCU.
  
  
  With the impending Disney/Fox deal set to close by the middle of the year, it's pretty unlikely the actor will be able to play Bishop — though weirder things have happened. In fact, Elba previous revealed he wants to play a bigger superhero while on the press tour for Thor: Ragnarok.
  
  “I like that I have a little part in Thor. I’m neither movie star or day player. It allows me to do other things I love… I wish I was more present in the Marvel family. I like what I have, but I also wish that I had a bigger character in the Marvel universe. It’s been great, but I kinda think I need a bit more. I want to be a superhero. I like the idea of that.”
  X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Thinks Idris Elba Should Play Bishop

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Eh, he would be better as Cyclops but cacs would flip a wig. Idris is too big of an actor to NOT be a permanent member of the X-plantation...oops I mean XMen who has no permanent black male members.

XMen is forever tainted in my eyes after the BP/Storm divorce AND making Prodigy gay. fukk em

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

they need to quit the bullshyt and do a proper x-men movie with the blue and gold teams with proper casting thats what real nikkas is waiting for anyways

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I could.... see this

 

[parallax]

Eh, he would be better as Cyclops but cacs would flip a wig. Idris is too big of an actor to NOT be a permanent member of the X-plantation...oops I mean XMen who has no permanent black male members.

XMen is forever tainted in my eyes after the BP/Storm divorce AND making Prodigy gay. fukk em

that needed to happen. they were a shyt couple

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Claremont, Morrison and Whedon are the best writers the Xfranchise has had. Respect his opinion but why not get someone younger?

 

[Gold]

Age of Apocalypse Bishop at that.

"Strongest version only, no p*ssy shyt" should be in his contract

 

[BlackJesus]

Nah. He already died as the gold Viking dude. How they going to bring him back as an entirely different character in the same universe

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

that needed to happen. they were a shyt couple

FOH homie.

It doesn't matter if it was "forced", the poor writing due to racial prejudice and the constant bytching from white fan boys talking about it's racist to have a prominent black woman to be paired with a black man (but praise SUe Storm and Richards) made the entire franchise tainted. That wench suffered the biggest fall from grace being the queen of the most technologically advanced nation on earth to being regulated as Wolverine's, a hairy redneck, sidepiece is appalling.

@ORDER_66 tell these nikkas

 

[8WON6]

Bishop is supposed to be Aboriginal.

 

[Gold]

Nah. He already died as the gold Viking dude. How they going to bring him back as an entirely different character in the same universe

Its not the same universe. Fox owns Xmen brehbreh

 

[filial_piety]

I like it

 

[parallax]

FOH homie.

It doesn't matter if it was "forced", the poor writing due to racial prejudice and the constant bytching from white fan boys talking about it's racist to have a prominent black woman to be paired with a black man (but praise SUe Storm and Richards) made the entire franchise tainted. That wench suffered the biggest fall from grace being the queen of the most technologically advanced nation on earth to being regulated as Wolverine's, a hairy redneck, sidepiece is appalling.

@ORDER_66 tell these nikkas

they were only put together because they were black. i dont give a fukk why people were bytching. crap is crap and like the 05, that crap went on for far too long

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

they were only put together because they were black. i dont give a fukk why people were bytching. crap is crap and like the 05, that crap went on for far too long

You got a problem with two black characters getting married?

 

[parallax]

You got a problem with two black characters getting married?

if it were monica lynne, it wouldnt even be an issue.