Samara Weaving to Suit Up as Emma Frost in Marvel's New "X-Men" Movie from Director Jake Schreier

The "Ready or Not" actress is taking on her first superhero role in a new take on the X-Men.

Ready or Not star and bonafide scream queen Samara Weaving is joining the MCU as Emma Frost in Marvel's upcoming X-Men movie.

What's Happening:

  • Deadline reports that after meeting with numerous candidates, director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige have selected Samara Weaving in the role Emma Frost for the upcoming X-Men film.
  • Auditions have been ongoing for a number of rooms, however the search for an actor to play Frost has been the most thorough search – with the final list of actors testing for the role right after July 4th.
  • Frost is a telepathic Mutant that first showed up in X-Men comics in the 1980s and has evolved over the years going from supervillain to a key team member of the X-Men.
  • The character was previously played by January Jones in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Though Marvel Studios finally was able to use the X-Men characters following Disney buying 20th Century Fox, the longtime holders of the X-Men film rights, they have taken their time fully relaunching the property. 
  • Although a number of original X-Men actors will reprise their roles in this December's Avengers: Doomsday, Schreier's movie is expected to introduce a new version of the beloved team played by a brand new cast.
  • Schreier was tapped to direct the project last spring, with Beef creator Lee Sung Jim and The Bear co-creator Joanna Calo handling the script.
  • Weaving is perhaps best known for her role in Ready or Not and its sequel, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. However, she's had a prolific career, most recently starring this year in Over Your Dead Body and Carolina Caroline.

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