Obsession has now become one of the most profitable movies ever made. Its $750,000 budget exploded into a $403 million global haul, and it’s still growing each day, despite the film now being available on digital. It has rocketed its star, Inde Navarrette, into the stratosphere overnight, with her last role before this being the sixth most important character in Superman and Lois, Lana Lang’s daughter, Sarah. What a difference one film can make.
The 25-year-old Navarrette has done countless interviews since Obsession blew up, asked all sorts of questions from her dream roles to the dream directors she’d love to work with. And now, she’s meeting some of them, including one in charge of a very, very important Marvel movie coming up.
In a new interview with Nylon, Navarrette confirms that she has met with Jake Schreier, director of the recent very good but underperforming Thunderbolts at Marvel. His take on a disparate team format was well received, and he was put in charge of the upcoming MCU X-Men movie.
There’s a running joke that any time any new actor starts to get big, fans immediately start casting them as some sort of superhero. Though, in this case, there’s evidence that this could actually happen.
We do not yet know which characters the MCU’s X-Men will focus on, other than that the team will be young as the universe says goodbye to the aging FOX X-Men in Doomsday/Secret Wars (except, perhaps, the immortal Hugh Jackman as Wolverine). There are nearly confirmed theories that Sadie Sink is about to be the first X-Man, appearing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day as Jean Grey. But there are obviously other female roles on the team.
Storm is ruled out for obvious reasons. Psylocke and Jubilee as well, as they’re Asian. Options could be Kitty Pryde, Mystique (formerly played by Jennifer Lawrence), X-23 (no real reason this couldn’t stay Daphne Keen) or finally, the all-important Rogue, which seems like the biggest team role she could possibly play, given all that. Rogue was played in a number of X-Men movies by Anna Paquin, starting way back with the original in 2000.
Could Navarrette do it? Well, a pretty important piece of Rogue’s identity is her southern origins, hailing from Mississippi, and all iterations of her, live-action or animated, have that significant accent. I have no idea how Navarrette, originally from Arizona and of Mexican heritage, might handle that kind of accent work, but she also just came out of nowhere to deliver one of the best horror performances of all time, so who knows what she’s capable of.
There’s nothing to say that this will definitely come to pass. Navarrette also met with Michael Mann, possibly about Heat 2. She has also expressed outright interest in playing the lead in Amazon’s upcoming Fourth Wing adaptation. She says she’d be interested in more horror, an action film, perhaps.
I’m not entirely sure she should immediately lock herself into an indefinite number of X-Men movies, given all she has on the table now, but who knows what will happen now that she appears to have her pick of roles. And hey, Obsession director Curry Barker, also with his pick of films, may want to reunite.
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