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Now that he is done being all Governor-y, Arnie is getting back into the swing of making action films quite nicely. As we’ve posted recently, he has been on set with The Expendables 2 and is also already shooting The Last Stand, which is being directed by Jee-Woon Kim. Now we have news that Arnie [...]
There was naturally a lot of speculation circling Arnold Schwarzenegger leading up to when his term as Governor of California ended at the start of the year. His expected return to acting is now official, with production on Liongate’s Last Stand just begun. The film will see him star opposite Jaimie Alexander (Thor) as the [...]
The Matthew Vaughn directed movie, X-Men: First Class is currently filming up in Oxford and it may be a little early for a trailer but if this doesn’t whet your appetite, nothing will! HeyUGuys reader, Nick Acott sent us a link to this awesome fan-made trailer that his friend, Gary Scullion (Section33) made and it [...]
And so it continues… Living up to the promise at the foot of yesterday’s ‘Oliver Platt in X-Men: First Class‘ post, it seems we’re in for a ton of casting announcements regarding Matthew Vaughn’s film. Today, via XmenFilms.net we’ve learned that Morgan Lily, who was last seen in Roland Emmerich’s CG apocalypse-a-thon 2012, is confirmed [...]
The cast list for X-Men: First Class keeps on growing, we’ve had Jason Flemyng and Rose Byrne jump on board in the last 36 hours and now the name of Oliver Platt has been added to Matthew Vaughn’s film. Deadline named Platt and offered up The Man in Black as his character, stating only that [...]
Hot on the heels of Jason Flemyng’s announcement at Empire’s Movie-Con that he will be appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class as Azazel, the father of Nightcrawler, THR are penciling in another name on the class register. Rose Byrne, recently seen in Get Him to the Greek and soon to be appearing in the [...]
Jennifer Lawrence is the latest star to officially sign on to star in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. Lawrence will play the character of Mystique in the prequel according to the report to THR. Lawrence joins James McAvoy, Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, Alice Eve, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till and Kevin Bacon in [...]
Tonight’s X-Men: First Class rumour comes courtesy of Deadline, whose scant news is that Kevin Bacon is talking to all the right people about playing the villain of Matthew Vaughn’s film. There were three posts devoted to the casting of this film yesterday, all X-Men in the making, so the villain angle this news pertains [...]
So we have three X-Men: First Classmates signed up in one day – Aaron Johnson as Cyclops, Nicholas Hoult as Beast and now there’s confirmation of a Latino Review rumour that was going around concerning the character of Banshee. Variety have the confirmation that Caleb Landry Jones will play the character of Sean Cassidy and [...]
Very interesting news breaking right now regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class and, yes, it’s another casting decision. There have been a ton of names orbiting this project ever since James McAvoy was signed up to play the youthful Charles Xavier. He has been followed by Aaron Johnson, Alice Eve, the always wonderful Michael Fassbender [...]
The list of incoming mutant set to attend X-Men: First Class seemingly grows every day. Not twelve hours ago news was posted that Alice Eve was the latest recruit to Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men film, she’ll be stepping into the role of Emma Frost, and now there’s another name rumoured to be involved. The character of [...]
To begin at the beginning then. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who previously impressed with Stardust and Kick-Ass, took over as Headmaster and Headmistress of Marvel’s next step into the mutantverse as director and writer of X-Men: First Class. They cast James McAvoy as the young Charles Xavier. This was a good move, and the [...]
Previously discussed was the tug-of-war between Sony and Fox for the services of one of our favourite actors, Michael Fassbender, for their Spider-Man and X-Men: First Class films respectively. Anyone who has watched Fassbender in his British films such as Fish Tank and the outstanding Hunger will know exactly why he is being courted and [...]
It’s worth mentioning in the first instance that only James McAvoy has been confirmed as appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, and the resultant slew of rumours are just that, and unnamed sources will be cited until official word comes from Vaughn and Fox as to the full line up of Mutant High. So, [...]
Following the Michael Fassbender/Magneto rumour which has been going around there’s another name emerging from the internet ether regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class – that of British actress Rosamund Pike. Fans of the comic book series will know instinctively which part Pike would be perfect for – and according to Forces of Geek, Pike [...]
Jonathan Ross pretty much confirmed on his radio show yesterday that X Men: First Class will be shooting at Pinewood this summer. Now there is a small chance he might have been talking about another project but all the signs point to the new X Men film shooting at Pinewood this summer. The film is set [...]
Things are moving pretty fast in the world of X-Men: First Class. The recent rumours about the list of the project’s potential directors including Kick-Ass’s Matthew Vaughn have now been confirmed there’s now a press release from Fox which sets the 3rd of June 2011 as the release date. That’s incredible quick, and hopefully means [...]
No stranger to the world of superheroes, Matthew Vaughn may hold off on his Kick-Ass sequel plans to take charge on the next film in the X-Men series, the prequel/smells of reboot to me X-Men: First Class. Hollywood Insider among others have the story that Fox is talking to Vaughn, who you may recall was [...]
