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Anne Hathaway's Scrapped Spider-Man: Brand New Day Villain Explained
Anne Hathaway's Scrapped Spider-Man: Brand New Day Villain Explained
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Tramel Tillman killed it as anti-mutant
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operator Bill Metzger in Brand New Day.
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But, in the original plans for the
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story, you could have seen Anne Hathaway
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play a completely different villain with
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the same mutant-hating mission. So, what
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kept Hathaway from joining her Odyssey
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co-stars for another blockbuster this
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year? It's not like she hasn't already
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proven that she has comic movie swagger.
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>> I'm afraid I can't let you take that.
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>> Look, you wouldn't beat up a woman any
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more than I would beat up a [ __ ]
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>> Simple answer, Hathaway wasn't a
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problem. It's the character she was
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slated to play, an obscure villain
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called the Leper Queen. Unless you're a
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serious Marvel head, you're probably
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scratching your head and looking her up
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on your phone as we speak. Trust us,
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she's real. She first appeared in
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Decimation: House of M the Day After in
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2005, and bit the dust in X-Force volume
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3 only 4 years later. During that time,
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she notched about 14 appearances. In
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comic book terms, that's nothing. Not a
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ton to draw from, dramatically speaking.
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Like Metzger, she isn't a fan of
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mutants, but that's about all they have
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in common. Her hatred from them began
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when her own daughter, who was born with
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pyrotechnic powers, started a house on
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fire and died in the process. Leper
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Queen, whose real name isn't really
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revealed in the comics, was severely
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disfigured as a result and set out to
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hold every last mutant accountable. Not
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only did she found the anti-mutant group
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known as the Sapien League, she also
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worked with the Purifiers and Bastion to
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kill as many mutants as she possibly
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could. By the time she met her end, she
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had killed enough of them to be
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considered a mass murderer. Yikes.
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Sounds like a pretty killer role,
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though, right? Definitely would have
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been something different for Hathaway,
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especially if they kept the whole bald
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and burned look going. So, what
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happened? Why did they end up going with
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equally obscure villain Bill Metzger?
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That was discussed recently by the Hot
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Mic host, John Rocha and Jeff Snyder, a
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duo with a solid track record for
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reporting Marvel rumors. For instance,
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their show was one of the first to share
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reports of Hulk being in Brand New
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[music] Day. Referencing some hot goss
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shared by his sources, Rocher claimed,
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>> According to them, Shifelton was too
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small of a role. There was nothing role
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for her to play.
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>> Sneider went on to say he believes that
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could be true. And you know what? So do
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we. Hathaway's an A-lister who doesn't
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need a bit villain part. She's as
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established as can be. So it's not
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surprising that she just said no doubts
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of this and let Tillman get his foot in
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the Marvel door. Plus, we imagine she
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was probably pretty wiped from working
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on The Odyssey. Interestingly, Hathaway
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wasn't the only person they had in mind
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for Leper Queen. It was also reported
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that Nicole Kidman, Carrie [ __ ] and
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Sarah Snook were approached as well. And
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they too all said, "No, thanks." If
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true, it's interesting to see how long
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the creative team tried to make the
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Leper Queen happen before pivoting to
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someone else. Plenty of Redditors have
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responded to this news by saying that
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they're glad Marvel went with Tillman's
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Metzger instead.
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>> We're going to face with a danger we
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can't [music] control.
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One we can't even see.
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>> One wrote, "I can see why they rejected
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it. Leper Queen is a really odd villain
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in the comics." Some, however, don't
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think the character is totally dead in
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the water, nor would she have been that
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odd of a pull. As one Redditor put it,
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"It does fit Marvel's MO of taking
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obscure villains from the comics and
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overhauling them and giving them bigger
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roles in the movies. I could see Leper
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Queen being reused in the future,
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perhaps as a right-hand woman of someone
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like Graydon Creed or William Stryker."
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Others agreed with one poster pointing
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out that it's obvious they were hoping
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to establish an anti-mutant undercurrent
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for the sake of setting up a future
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X-Men movie, which we for sure know is
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in the works. Speaking of which, are you
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stoked about Samara Weaving taking on
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the role of Emma Frost? Super rad
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casting choice. But anyway, we We
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Whatever they end up doing or not doing
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with Leperchaun in the future, the
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bottom line right now is that they
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certainly made all the right choices
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with brand new day. It made nearly a
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billion dollars over its first opening
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weekend, [music] which makes it the
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second highest grossing opening of all
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time, right behind Avengers Endgame.
