Before some of you get your pitchforks and start screaming: "That's racist!" Hear me out.
Mr. Esposito is a superb actor. Phase 6 roughly ends in 2025 and the X-Men are nowhere to be found. Mr. Esposito is currently at 64. He's going to be 67+ years old by the time phase 6 ends.
RDJ was 43-44 when Ironman was being filmed and Avenger Endgame was released when he was 54. We don't know if the X-Men are going to be around for 10 years AFTER they show up, which won't be until 2025 at best. Seeing that Disney is afraid of recasting certain roles "out of respect to the actor", like they killed T'Challa because of Chadwick Boseman. It would suck to be setting up Onslaught and have Esposito die long before the reveal.
I most likely would love to see Mr. Esposito in a Marvel role, but the only role I see for him is voicing En Sabah Nur, aka Apocalypse. Hear me out... the young En Sabah Nur fought a version of Kang. We know Kang is in phases 4, 5, and 6. Having Esposito voicing the young ESN, while the young Nur is played by an Underwear Model body with enough Apocalypse prosthetic make up that can make his face look like a young Esposito.
Perhaps even preemptively recording "Evolution monologs" by Esposito just in case to have ready for the actual reveal of Apocalypse. (A measure just in case an act of God makes Mr. Esposito unable to return) Before the actual reveal of Apocalypse. Then again, they could save money and have the Revealed Apocalypse be played by a different actor. I just suggested an idea inspired by Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story and Doc Hudson in Cars, who were able to get posthumous performances by using unused lines and outtakes.
But we could have Esposito play a role as one of the disguises of En Sabah Nur himself if we want to use him outaide of voicework...
I know that Apocalypse isn't known as a shapeshifter despite one of his powers is literally shape-shifting... Besides. It wouldn't be the first time the MCU alters a character's power set. The idea is to have Esposito play "an evil Nick Fury" that is trying to force the advanvement of Mutantkind by weeding out the weaker mutants. Funding the FoH, Magneto's Brotherhood. The Sentinel black project, Nathaniel Essex... Even the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning isn't safe from En Sabah Nur's influence. He's setting up the pieces to get his strong army.
Since this role would be mostly voicework and non-action scenes, it would be safer for the older Esposito... I'm aware that this rant may sound ageist. I'm also aware that any attempt at explaining will not stop the idiots from callong me racist and ageist, but here I go...
While everyone dies and it can be at random, the older we get, the more likely we're to die. My issue is lies with Disney's new No Recast policy and how an actor's death can ruin storylines. Losing an important character like Prof X. would royally suck. Like I said just now, the older we get, the more likely we're going to die. So, an actor close to his 70s would be at a higher risk of death than an actor in his 40s...
I know that part of the reason for race swapping Xavier has to do with Magneto getting race swapped. The latter is getting race swapped. The reason for this swap is that we're currently 17 years from the 100th anniversary of World War II. So, a more modern conflict is needed, probably something from Africa, Apartheid or the First Liberian Civil War... if they use the Liberian Civil War, Magneto could be as young as in his 40s by the time of the 5 years later after the blip. With the snaps of 2018 and 2023 to boost the mutant population, there's plenty of time to have Xavier form the school and have a fallout with Magneto, not to mention to have a class of late teens-early 20s X-Men. This would allow for keeping the cast for a long time.
Update:
My assistant Spike, notified me about the rumor of Denzel playing Magneto and that I already complained about that. The Ultimate Universe origin for Magneto COULD WORK but personally a Black Magneto worries me due to unintended racism.
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