Age: 18
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Mason Thames (/θeɪmz/, born July 10, 2007) is a rising young actor who made a remarkable debut as the young teen lead in director/co-writer/producer Scott Derrickson’s hit horror movie, The Black Phone (2021), based on Joe Hill’s short story, co-starring Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone and Ethan Hawke, and returning a spectacular gross of over $161 million (ten times costs) for Blumhouse Productions/Universal Pictures. Thames had his second starring role in his second theatrical feature with the David Henrie-directed adventure horror movie, Monster Summer (2024), co-starring Mel Gibson, Lorraine Bracco, Nora Zehetner, and Kevin James, and released wide by Pastime Pictures. Thames landed his biggest starring role to date as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III in director/writer/producer Dean DeBlois’ live-action adaptation of his original animated feature, How To Train Your Dragon (2025)—which itself was based on Cressida Cowell’s book series—co-starring Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Bronwyn James and Harry Trevaldwyn and released by Universal Pictures. Thames co-starred with McKenna Grace, Allison Williams, and Dave Franco in the Josh Boone-directed screen version of Colleen Hoover’s novel, Regretting You (2025), produced by Constantin Film and released by Paramount Pictures. Mason Thames revived his role as Finney in director/co-writer/producer Scott Derrickson’s anticipated sequel, The Black Phone 2 (2025), co-starring Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Madeleine McGraw, Demian Bichir, and again produced by Blumhouse Productions and released by Universal Pictures. Thames reunited with co-star McKenna Grace in director/writer Lee Kirk’s road comedy, New Year’s Rev (date to be announced), with Jenna Fischer, Sean Gunn, Fred Armisen, Bobby Lee, Jolene Blalock, Angela Kinsey, Keen Ruffalo, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Buffy Milner, and Billie Joe Armstrong, and produced by Live Nation Productions. Thames then returned as Finney in Universal Pictures’ live-action sequel, directed and written once again by Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027), co-starring Gerard Butler and Nico Parker. Thames co-starred in the Germany-U.S. co-production based on Colleen Hoover’s novel, Regretting You (2025), co-starring Allison Williams, McKenna Grace, Dave Franco, and Willa Fitzgerald under Josh Boone’s direction, and which was released by Paramount Pictures (worldwide)/Constantin Film (Germany). Thames then co-starred with Peter Dinklage and Dave Franco, with Kiernan Shipka and O’Shea Jackson, in director/co-writer/producer Macon Blair’s comedy, The Shitheads (date to be announced), and was produced by Gramercy Park Media/Rough House Pictures/Slate Entertainment Group. Thames returned to his live-action role as Hiccup alongside the original cast in director/writer/producer Dean DeBlois’ sequel for Universal Pictures, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027).
Mason Thames
Nightcrawler
for Nightcrawler in X-Men Part One: Uprising / X-Men Part Two: The Iron Law / X-Men Part Three: Aftermath
Suggested by sergeykirievskiy
Part One: In a near-present world where mutants have only recently become publicly known, society begins to fracture under fear, misinformation, and rising violence. Professor Charles Xavier forms the X-Men not as traditional superheroes, but as a crisis-response team designed to prevent catastrophe and stabilize an increasingly volatile world. Meanwhile, Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants conclude that coexistence is already a failed idea. Their actions begin as calculated strikes against systems they see as oppressive, but the movement fractures as younger radicals push it toward uncontrolled violence, while Mystique operates in the shadows, accelerating conflict through manipulation, infiltration, and political sabotage. Part Two: As governments enforce sweeping mutant control measures under the guise of security, society quietly shifts into surveillance and detainment. The X-Men become a covert rescue force operating in an increasingly authoritarian world. Rogue and Gambit navigate an expanding underground network of mutant resistance, while Magneto’s ideology hardens and the Brotherhood fractures under rising extremism. Mystique escalates covert manipulation across both human and mutant institutions.The introduction of the Sentinel program marks a turning point, evolving from protection into systematic persecution. Part Three: As mutant-human tensions reach a fragile plateau after the Sentinel crisis, the world is not yet at peace—but at the edge of it. During this uncertain transition, evidence surfaces pointing to Mister Sinister, a geneticist who has been quietly observing and subtly influencing key moments of escalation—not as a direct controller, but as an analyst studying how conflict shapes evolution. His discovery reframes years of history, forcing both humans and mutants to confront an uncomfortable truth: the cycles of fear and retaliation were not imposed from above, but amplified from within.
