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PerThe Wrap, Fring announced that he’s joining the MCU on stage at CCXP in Mexico City.

Contrary to expectation, it sounds like Esposito won’t be playing Professor X.

Giancarlo Esposito in Abigail

“I think that theres something about being original.

So, mark my words: This will happen sooner than you think.”

However, it seems that at some point in the year-and-a-half since then he changed his mind.

Captain America: Brave New World

Either that or Marvel already had a different role in mind for Esposito when conversations started.

John Malkovich in Fantastic Four: First Steps

Ben Grimm/The Thing in the first teaser trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps

Colman Domingo in Euphoria

Ian McKellen as Magneto in X-Men

Avengers: Endgame

Reed Richards writing on a chalkboard

Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The back of Galactus� head looking at the Statue of Liberty

King Kong doing his thing on the Empire State Building in 1933�s King Kong

Kevin Spacey in Seven

Fortnite

Baldur�s Gate 3 Drunken Master Monk in the House of Hope screenshot

Star Wars #1

A screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, showing a man named Verso covered in dirt and blood, looking into the camera.

Lewis Pullman as "Bob" in Thunderbolts*

A screenshot of the upcoming PS5 game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2