I had a crazy casting idea and it morphed into a whole thing and I decided to share. So with the success of Deadpool & Wolverine it’s only a matter of time before Marvel properly introduces the X-Men into the MCU. Now one of the big selling points of comic books and by extension their movies, is the exploration of characters and also all the drama they get into (some of the greatest comics of all time have little to do with fighting but our characters going through something tragic, like Death in the Family for Batman or Demon in the Bottle for Iron Man). Comics have even been described (accurately) as Soap Operas with capes. Anyway one of the biggest roles for the X-Men is Cyclops which is a tough character to pull off because he has to at times be your stereotypical Boy Scout while also having to be just The Worst. Cyclops is a complex character and the movies have never quite gotten him right, But I have hope for the MCU. Anyway I thought about who should play him and I think steering away from big names would be the best choice, so a younger actor who I think could pull off Cyclops, Matt Cornett.
Matt doesn’t quite have the biggest name recognition but I think that’s for the best. Plus he looks like Cyclops a little bit. Anyway one of his more well known roles is on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series where he played EJ Caswell who kind of goes through all of Cyclops’s greatest personality traits but toned down, so I think he can pull off the deeper aspects of Scott Summers very well.
Anyway, as I was thinking about him being Cyclops it hit me that the MCU could do something really interesting with the Classic Cyclops-Jean Grey-Wolverine love triangle. This is of course under the assumption Dafne Keen continues playing Laura Kinney/X-23 and takes up the mantle of Wolverine which she does in the comics.
So in the comics there are some hints that Laura is bisexual or at least bi-curious (she seems to have some interest in Jubilee) so we have an interesting dynamic with the classic X-Men love triangle, but much more interesting is the fact that it could be an actual love triangle. Instead of just Wolverine and Cyclops fighting for Jean Grey there could also be some romantic tension between them as well.
I think it’d be an interesting idea if they went for it but idk maybe I’m crazy. Maybe it’s just a crazy late night shower thought