X-Men: First Class did a great job of expanding the X-Men franchise with some new, young, fresh faces. However, originally, director Matthew Vaughn wanted to add even more First Class members, namely photosensitive Brazilian mutant, Sunspot. Back in 2011, he claimed:
In the draft they gave me all of the characters were in there. We cut Sunspot because we didn’t have enough time or money. They couldn’t make him work, he was a pain the ass.
Well, now, thanks to ComicBookMovie and concept artist Josh Kao, we can get a glimpse of what Sunspot (AKA Roberto da Costa) may have looked like. Check out his wiki description and concept art below
Able to absorb solar energy and metabolize it into physical strength, convert it into thrust to enable flight, or rechannel it as heat or infrared radiation. When doing so, DaCosta’s features melt away into a black mass of crackling dark energy. In unlighted places, DaCosta suffers a slight drop in his power levels.
But fans of Sunspot shouldn’t be too upset he was cut from First Class. Roberto da Costa will be making an appearance in Bryan Singer‘s sequel, X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
What do you think? Are you glad to see Sunspot finally get this big screen debut?