Word is floating around this morning that X-Men 3 may be adding everyones favorite time displaced anergy absorbing mutant known as Bishop to the film. This kind of rumour is both exciting and terrifying for me.
It’s exciting because I’ve always found Bishop to be one of the richest characters in the X-Universe. He went toe to toe with Apolcalypse in the AOA storyline (even though he lost) and has one of the coolest dispositions I’ve ever seen in a comic character.
However, it’s also a worrisome idea because there are already about 500 new X-Men in this movie on top of the returning ones. The good folks over at JoBlo sum up my fears like this:
If this is indeed true, let’s try to recap all the new mutants that are possibly showing up in this movie – Angel, Beast, Juggernaut, Kitty Pryde, Stacy X aka Mutant Whore, Multiple Man, Gambit and now Bishop. And those are just the mutants. There’s also Shohreh Aghdashloo playing Dr. Kavita Rao, any other as yet un-named new human characters and all of the returning mutants from the previous two films. Ratner’s definitely got his work cut out for him.
Yeah… as much as I’d like to see Bishop up on the big screen… I think this dance card is already full. Best to let the character sit for another day (If there is another day… I still have a bad feeling they’re going to kill the franchise with this film… but we’ll wait and see).
