I just learned that Peter Dinklage, of Game of Thrones fame, will be portraying the main villain in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (which will forever now be referred to as DOFP)! MTVGeek is reporting that his character will be none other than Dr. Bolivar Trask, inventor of Master Mold and the Sentinel armies.
For those uninitiated in DOFP lore, in the original storyline Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist who saw the rise of mutants as a threat to humanity. Bolivar decides that humanity has to fight back against the mutants and develops robotic guardians for humanity, known as the Sentinels. Bolivar publishes articles on the threat of mutants and generally harasses mutants on a regular basis. Ironically, Bolivar's own son and daughter are both mutants.
Now there is also an alternative storyline in Marvel's "Ultimate" Universe that may fit the movie a bit better. In those books, he’s a member of the government science team creating giant robot Sentinels as a direct response to Magneto’s attacks on the President of the United States. The Ultimate Trask is definitely more of a sinister character, so I am very much hoping DOFP sticks with the Ultimate storyline.
Let's also not forget that Bolivar Trask has already been depicted in X-Men: The Last Stand by Bill Duke. Though I personally choose to ignore The Last Stand entirely (mainly due to the killing of my favorite X-Man), I am pretty sure it still exists in movie canon. Dinklage and Duke look completely different from each other, so either Marvel will just ignore that fact...or this is all make believe and MTVGeek has fed us nonsense. Let's hope it's true though.
Here is the link to MTVGeek if you would like their full story: MTVGeek
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