by Brett White
We've spent the last few weeks being bombarded with casting announcements for Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past." The thing is, almost all of them have been for returning cast members from the previous three X-Men films. These actors will most likely be on the future side of the time-travel story, so it's somewhat shocking that the past X-Men of 1973 are so under-represented. This is, at its core, a sequel to "X-Men: First Class," but the classic returning actors outnumber the "First Class" cast two-to-one.
So far only James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are reprising their roles from "X-Men: First Class." Of those four, only two of them (McAvoy's Xavier and Hoult's Beast) are even X-Men. With Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert), Lucas Till (Havok) and Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee) still M.I.A., it looks like the classic X-Men are a dynamic duo. Who else could be on the team?
'Avengers 2' Casting Call: Quicksilver And Scarlet Witch
Posted 5/3/13 8:00 am EST by Splash Page Team in Casting Call, Commentary, Marvel
by Brett White
When Joss Whedon flat-out stated that he intended on including a "brother and sister act" in "The Avengers 2," it caused the entire comic book community to do a double-take. The most prominent brother and sister pair in Marvel Comics are Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, two characters everyone pretty much assumed were tied up over at Fox since they are the children of Magneto and, you know... mutants. But apparently Fox's film rights to Marvel's mutants contain a loophole for longtime Avengers like Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. And since the pair most likely aren't showing up in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" or "The Wolverine," Marvel is free to call dibs. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige didn't deny the duo's inclusion in Whedon's first draft, either.
The sequel isn't due in theaters for another two years, so firm confirmation and casting is definitely a ways away (we have "Iron Man 3" to get through first!), but that doesn't mean I can't start wildly speculating. For this casting call, I'm looking only at actors that already work together for two reasons: 1. Pietro and Wanda Maximoff need to work off of each other effortlessly and casting them together makes sense; 2. This arbitrary limitation prohibits me from just listing all the usual suspects (sorry Connie Britton, who should be in literally everything).
Check out the candidates below.
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