Oliver Platt is The Man in Black for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

He would probably be an ok fit for a latter day Johnny Cash but Oliver Platt's newly announced role as 'The Man in Black' for X-Men: First Class is presumably not the legendary singer. Nor is it likely to be the mysterious antagonist who followed The Gunslinger in Stephen King's fantasy The Dark Tower. Nor is it either likely to be Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly or the evil twin brother of Jacob on Lost. Nor is he likely to be a MIB agent who fights aliens. We've had our fair share of Men in Black's but Platt's will probably be nothing more than a government suit who hates mutants when Fox begin production on the movie in three weeks. A human bad guy, we presume - not to dissimilar to the Senator Robert Kelly role in the original flick. Any more men in black's I've forgotten?
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.