Bryan Cranston Wants To Join X-Men Franchise As Mr Sinister

‘Breaking Bad’ star Bryan Cranston hasn’t just revealed he wants to play a Marvel supervillain, he’s revealed which specific villain he wants to play.

The 59-year-old actor revealed at New York Comic Con this past weekend that he wants to portray X-Men villain Mr Sinister on the big screen.

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Cranston was asked directly which character he’d want to play and answered directly back, then asked the audience at the 'SuperMansion’ panel what they thought of the idea (viaBuzzfeed).

Naturally, they sounded very excited by the prospect. Explaining why he’d want to play the character, Cranston said: “It intrigues me to be able to play a character that hasn’t been on film before, so you can create it from the beginning.”

Mr Sinister is the creation of Chris Claremont and made his comic debut in 1987. His real name is Nathaniel Essex, a man from the 19th century who discovered that humans were mutating, an ideal rubbished by his idol Charles Darwin. 

After the death of his son he becomes engrossed in his work to the point of obssession. He meets Apocalypse (the villain of the upcoming 'X-Men: Apocalypse) by chance, and the ancient mutant offers him powers of advanced strength, healing and longer life. 

After the death of his wife, Essex takes Apocalypse up on the offer and becomes Mr Sinister.

The rights to the character almost certainly belong to 20th Century Fox as part of their ‘X-Men’ deal, and he would make sense for a future movie in the franchise. He has ties to the upcoming one too of course. What’s more exciting is the prospect of Cranston being involved in a super-hero movie at all - he’s a great actor of course and seems enthusiastic about such a part. 

After playing one of the all-time great screen villains in 'Breaking Bad’ fans have been clamouring for him to transfer those skills from the small screen to the big. At point he was heavily rumoured to be playing Lex Luthor for Warner Bros.