X-Men First Class Gets New Cast Members
This just in! January Jones has signed on to play Emma Frost. It was previously rumored that Rosamund Pike and Alice Eve were up for the role.
There are lots of new castings rumors on 20th Century Fox’s X-Men First Class. Three new characters have been added to the film. “Damages” star Rose Byrne is in talks to play Dr. Moira MacTaggert. She will play a scientist and the love interest of Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy).
Jason Flemyng, who starred in “Clash of the Titans”, will play Azazel. Azazel is a demonic looking teleporters who in the comics is the father of Nightcrawler. Nichtcrawler’s mother has also been cast and she’ll be played by Jennifer Lawrence.
It is also rumored that Oliver Platt will play a character referred to as “the Man in Black”. The characters is supposedly not a mutant.
So far the cast of First Class includes, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a Magneto, Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast, Caleb Landry Jones as Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee, Lucas Till as Alex Summers a.k.a Havoc, Edi Gathegi as Darwin, Alice Eve as Emma Frost a.k.a. The White Queen, and Kevin Bacon as an unnamed villain.
X-Men First Class will be directed by Matthew Vaughn and is scheduled to hit theaters on June 3, 2011.
