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Even More X-Men Casting
Deadline.com reports that Rose Byrne (28 DAYS LATER) and Oliver Platt (2012) have joined the cast of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
Byrne (pictured) will play Moira MacTaggert, reportedly Charles Xavier’s (James McAvoy) love interest in the film.
Oliver Platt’s role is said to be a new, non-mutant character, referred to as The Man in Black.
Jason Flemyng (CLASH OF [...]
Edi Gathegi for Darwin in “X-Men”?
The TWILIGHT star is said to be joining the cast of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
G4 TV’s 4 MARVEL Anime Shows
It was revealed at Comic Con that the cable channel G4 will be the exclusive American TV network to air Marvel Entertainment’s four new Anime series.
IRON MAN, X-MEN, WOLVERINE, and BLADE will all be getting 12 episode arc, 30 minute length animated programs. The shows will be largely set in Japan and the Far East, [...]
Alice Eve for ‘X-Men: First Class’?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alice Eve (BIG NOTHING) is in talks with 20th Century Fox to play Emma Frost in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
In the comics, Emma Frost began as a villainess called The White Queen. Her powers include telepathy, mind control, and psychic assaults. Later, she was given the ability to make herself into [...]
Vinnie Jones Will Fight ‘The Cape’
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Vinnie Jones
(X-MEN: LAST STAND) has joined the cast of NBC’s
THE CAPE as a regular.
Jones will play a freakish criminal named ‘Scales’ on the series, a man with a skin condition that looks like green and gold scales.
A snake-man? A Killer Croc clone?
Guess we’ll have to tune in to find [...]
McAvoy Is Prof. X For ‘First Class’
EW’s Hollywood Insider reports that James McAvoy (WANTED) has been cast as Charles Xaiver (Professor X) in 20th Century Fox’s X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
The 30-ish actor will play a younger version of the MARVEL Comics character, as the film is described by Fox as charting “the epic beginning of the X-MEN saga.”
“Before Charles Xavier [...]
Matthew Vaughn To Direct X-Men: First Class
Director Matthew Vaughn
According to The Hollywood Reporter Matthew Vaughn (KICK-ASS, STARDUST) has finally, after lots of back-and-forth, signed on to direct superhero origins tale, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Vaughn has been rumoured to be circling the project for the last couple of weeks but has now sealed the deal with the studio, who are hoping [...]
Bryan Singer returning to X-Men universe?
The Los Angeles Times has posted a lengthy sit down interview with director Bryan Singer and producer Lauren Shuler Donner, in which they discuss the possibility of Singer’s return to the X-MEN film franchise. Singer directed X-MEN and X-MEN 2, which helped jump-start the current wave of comic-book-to-film adaptations and established Marvel Comics characters (Spider-Man, [...]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Hugh Jackman dons the adamantium claws once again for this prequel revealing the back story of Wolverine, but even his considerable charisma and thespian skills are no match for an ill-conceived scenario that buries its intended emotional resonances beneath an avalanche of typical action-movie antics, and then further aggravates the situation by tossing in a [...]
Sense of Wonder: Tired of sequels? Hollywood offers prequels, too!
Over at USA Today, Scott Bowles points out that Summer 2009 is loaded with blockbusters that feature origin stories. The motivations for this a fairly clear: Hollywood likes familiar franchises, but audiences are getting tired of sequels rehashing the same old plots. Prequels allow filmmakers to fill in the back story; more than that, an [...]
Angels & Demons warps past Star Trek and Wolverine
Science fiction and fantasy films had launched the summer box office season to a great start thanks to STAR TREK and X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, but this weekend they were passed up by the debut of ANGELS & DEMONS, director Ron Howard’s sequel to his 2006 blockbuster. Not to worry: both TREK and WOLVERINE posted strong [...]
Laserblast: Star Trek Season 1 Blu-ray, X-Men, The Uninvited
This week, science fiction, fantasy and horror DVDs are dominated by theatrical releases; that is to say, the opening of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE this weekend and the upcoming debut of the new STAR TREK film have inspired some cash-in-while-we-can home video releases. This include a Blu-ray version of the first season of the original STAR [...]
Laserblast: X-Men Trilogy on Blu-ray, plus Caprica, Sin City & Hellraiser
EDITOR’S NOTE: The thing about home video is it’s like some kind of all-powerful voodoo spell that continually resurrects old titles, bringing them back from the grave with all the inevitability of Amando de Ossorio’s Knights Templar saddling up for another night-time ride in pursuit of sacrificial victims. In this case the fateful event prompting [...]
