Sadie Sink Plays Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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- Sadie Sink plays Jean Grey in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' ending months of speculation that the 'Stranger Things' star was taking on the iconic X-Men role.
- In the film, Jean Grey possesses bystanders to infiltrate the Department of Damage Control, uses the Hulk as a battering ram, and is later captured and experimented on by Damage Control CEO Bill Metzger (Tramell Tillman).
- Jean discovers her sister Sara died in Damage Control custody and unleashes a psychic bubble that freezes nearly everyone in New York City before Spider-Man convinces her to stand down.
- Jon Bernthal's Punisher nearly kills Spider-Man with a sniper shot while the hero pushes Jean out of the way; Jean uses her powers to keep the wounded Spidey alive before disappearing.
- The movie ends with Jean boarding a bus out of NYC, with fall foliage suggesting she may be heading to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester.
- Sink becomes the third live-action Jean Grey after Famke Janssen in the original X-Men trilogy and Sophie Turner in the prequel series, and is expected to anchor a younger MCU X-Men cast separate from the Fox-era actors assembling for 'Doomsday.'
Why it matters: By installing Damage Control as an anti-mutant organization that experimented on Jean's sister, the film opens a new institutional villain track for the MCU's mutant storyline — and confirms Sink as the face of a younger X-Men generation distinct from the Fox-era cast (Jackman, Reynolds, Stewart, Marsden) reassembling for 'Avengers: Doomsday.'
