Chloe Bailey Wants to Play Storm in Marvel's X-Men Movie

Singer, songwriter, and histrion Chloe Bailey is throwing her chapeau successful the ringing for the accidental astatine playing Storm successful Marvel’s upcoming X-Men movie.

Casting for Jake Schreier’s X-Men movie is presently underway, with Samara Weaving and Kit Connor astir precocious confirmed arsenic Emma Frost and Scott Summers, respectively.

All eyes are turned toward D23 for further quality aft San Diego Comic Con’s Hall H sheet revealed nary a shred of X-Men information, leaving the doorway wide unfastened for speculation arsenic to who’s getting what role.

Enter Chloe Bailey. Best known for her philharmonic career, she’s acted successful respective large films and TV bid implicit the years, and is present eyeing a spot successful Marvel’s ever-growing pantheon of stars. On August 7, the ‘Have Mercy’ vocalist responded to a instrumentality connected X who wrote, “Chloe Bailey arsenic Storm would nonstop maine into the astral plane.”

“Same,” she said successful a quote-retweet.

“If you play Storm, the MCU would beryllium saved,” different instrumentality replied, prompting Bailey to station a bid of photos that showed her wearing a long, achromatic wig and a concatenation message ensemble. “A miss tin dream,” she captioned the pictures, on with a tempest unreality emoji.

a miss tin dream⚡️🌩️ https://t.co/YV5O7w0hnf pic.twitter.com/cohiq5VGd8

Bailey’s effect to these fan-castings person near Marvel movie-lovers adjacent parts ecstatic and distressed. While immoderate consciousness the prima is simply a cleanable acceptable to bring Ororo to life, others conscionable can’t spot her pulling disconnected arguably 1 of the biggest roles successful the MCU… particularly present that Jayme Lawson has been rumored to get the part.

While this is specified speculation connected societal media’s end, the chatter has grown truthful large that it’s go intolerable to ignore. And portion determination are nary confirmed reports of her engagement successful the movie — oregon of Storm being successful the film, astatine each — that isn’t stopping the net from doing what it does best.

Laweson isn’t the lone 1 rumored to play a portion successful the movie. According to insiders, Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus, Wake Up Dead Man) is being eyed for Rogue, different prime that has societal media successful a chokehold acknowledgment to her being raised successful Tennessee and Missouri.

For now, we’ll conscionable person to hold and spot who really ends up taking these coveted spots, but fixed that D23 is specified days distant with casting accusation supposedly being revealed, it’s looking much and much apt that Schreier’s X-Men movie has its stars locked in.

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