Strange things are happening in the geekosphere. Over the past week, there’s been a flurry of activity on Twitter (AKA X) and the internet generally surrounding Taylor Swift’s reported casting (in cameo) as Dazzler in the Marvel movie Deadpool 3. Is it really happening? The original video report by Disinsider that sparked a ream of stories and posts now seems to have excised all references to the singer’s apparent appearance, so we’ll probably have to wait until 2024 to find out.
For the record, Dazzler seems like the perfect fit for Swift. A superhero pop star capable of transforming sound into light and energy beams, she first appeared in the 1980 comic The Uncanny X-Men #130, looking like a disco queen from the stars in tight silver-white spandex and blue mini-mask. The singer’s casting would be an undoubted publicity coup for Marvel, given Swift’s billions of fans across the globe among pretty much all demographics. Moreover, Ryan Reynolds himself has previously said he would love to cast Spotify’s most-streamed female artist in a movie, though it has to be said that similarly pitched stunt-casting hasn’t always worked out in the past.
