X Marks the Kit

Everything nasty you can say about Bryan Singer deserves to be said but I have to admit that I still have a huge attachment to the first two X-Men movies all the same -- I re-watched them both this past weekend after a very long time and those movies remain aces; they are still, two and a half decades and gazillions of superhero movies / series on, among the very best that the genre has given us. (I can't stop obsessing about the way that Rebecca Romijn's fight-moves as Mystique were choreographed -- like a gravity-defying panther? Just insane and incredible stuff.) Anyway I was never a superhero kid, I never read superhero comics, so it was those movies alone that made me care about the X-Men -- but care I do! So I am definitely paying attention to the rumor-mill booting up on X-Men casting -- today's news is that they've all but chosen Heartstopper star Kit Connor to play Cyclops aka the Jimmy Marsden / Tye Sheridan dude. (What happened to Tye Sheridan anyway? I really like Tye Sheridan!) I am fine with this -- as I've admitted I've never watched Heartstopper but I thought he aquitted himself well in Warfare, which I have seen him in, and also he's very nice to look at. That helps. Plus he's queer! The X-Men are canonically the gayest of all the superheroes...

LOL this scene still rules

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) July 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM

... and yes again I am mainly speaking from my Bryan Singer base of knowledge. But also I have an ex who was huge into the comics and so I have been forced to listen to all the reasons why that's really the case, and he did make a good one. Anyway Kit's good, the [spoiler for the new Spider-Man movie reveal] was also good, and the other possible casting that's on the record -- aka Samara Weaving playing Emma Frost -- is fucking excellent. We worship Samara Weaving in this house. I have long said that she should have Margot Robbie's career, but maybe this will be the spark that makes Margot wish she had a Samara Weaving career at last.