{"id":838755,"date":"2026-07-31T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838755\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:02:09","slug":"samara-weaving-is-marvels-new-emma-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/838755\/","title":{"rendered":"Samara Weaving Is Marvel’s New Emma Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel\u2019s much-anticipated<\/a> X-Men<\/a> movie has just added some major star power, in both character and performer form. Samara Weaving<\/a> (Ready or Not, Scream VI) has just signed on to play Emma Frost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> was the first to report the news, though Marvel did not offer any comment or confirmation. The trade wrote, \u201cAfter meeting with a number of candidates, director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige landed on Weaving earlier this week to tackle the role.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also added this detail: \u201cSchreier and Marvel execs have been meeting and auditioning actors for a number of roles, with the Frost character appearing to elicit the most thorough search among the new cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emma Frost dates back to 1980\u2019s The Uncanny X-Men #129 and was co-created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. She has telepathic powers\u2014among her numerous other talents<\/a>\u2014and has been both a villain and a heroic member of the X-Men team. Previously on the big screen, she\u2019s been portrayed by Tahyna Tozzi (in 2009\u2019s X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and January Jones (in 2011\u2019s X-Men: First Class).<\/p>\n

Thunderbolts\u00a0helmer Schreier came aboard X-Men in 2025<\/a>, and Lee Sung Jin (Beef) and Joanna Calo (The Bear) are writing the script. So far the movie does not have a title or a release date, but we\u2019ll surely be learning more after Avengers: Doomsday, which will see several established members of the X-Men team<\/a> bringing their powers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s much-anticipated X-Men movie has just added some major star power, in both character and performer form. Samara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,292295,75,3078,92462,21785],"class_list":["post-838755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-emma-frost","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-samara-weaving","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}