Bryan Cranston's revealed what Marvel villain he'd like to play and it sounds a lot like Heisenberg

A bitter scientist who must become a monster, you say?

Over the weekend, Bryan Cranston revealed that he’d like to play a super villain in a Marvel movie; because of the rich characters the comic books offer or the massive sacks of cash Marvel would tip from trucks onto his front lawn? You decide.

Anyway, he’s now been asked to be specific about which it would be at New York Comic-Con - a place where you can’t really go “sorry guys I have no idea, I mostly read novels!”

Apparently his choice would be X-Men foe Mister Sinister, with Cranston saying: “It intrigues me to be able to play a character that hasn't been on film before, so you can create it from the beginning.”

Take a look at the character’s biography and there are definitely some resemblances to a certain other antagonist he’s played (emphasis mine):

'Born Nathaniel Essex in Victorian London, Sinister became a biologist in 1859…[he] believed his peers were shackled by too many moral constraints and that their research should be beyond morality. Essex believed that humanity was undergoing increasing mutation, due to what he called “Essex Factors” in the human genome. He dreamed of bringing the perfection of the evolution of the human race to the masses. After the loss of his young son due to birth defects, he delved deeper into his work. Essex's theories were mocked, making him bitter, and his revealing of an unorthodox experiment resulted in his ousting from the Royal Society. Angry, Essex stated that if becoming a monster was what was required for his work to progress, then he would become a monster.'

I guess Mister Sinister’s goals were more orientated around world domination than establishing a drug monopoly on Albuquerque and escaping his wife for a bit, but that’s probably about as Heisenbergian as Marvel villains get.

Marvel's Mister Sinister drawn by Ron Frenz

Oscar Isaac is soon to play supervillain Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse, but I wouldn’t be surprising if Marvel are already on the phone to Cranston’s agent.

Cranston most recently starred in the movie Trumbo, with his next set to be a TV one in which he plays President Lyndon. B Johnson.