It has just been announced that Scottish actor James McAvoy, who below is lookin’ all beefed up and HAWT, has been cast as Professor Charles Xavier in the upcoming X-Men prequel film First Class, due out in theaters in Summer 2011. You may recall that last December, Bryan Singer talked to the LA Times [...]
It has just been announced that Scottish actor James McAvoy, who below is lookin’ all beefed up and HAWT, has been cast as Professor Charles Xavier in the upcoming X-Men prequel film First Class, due out in theaters in Summer 2011. You may recall that last December, Bryan Singer talked to the LA Times about directing the film … it turns out that he has since decided to produce the film and leave the directing duties to Matthew Vaughn. James McAvoy is the first actor attached to the planned prequel … and today, we get to see what McAvoy will look like as a young, very hawt Professor Xavier:
British actor James McAvoy has landed another Hollywood action franchise with the lead role in the latest X-Men film – and he has a tough new image to match. The 31-year-old Scot, who rose to fame in UK TV’s Shameless, will play a young version of the Marvel superhero team’s iconic leader Professor X in a prequel to the blockbuster trilogy. A new still from the film shows the actor in peak condition, with his tanned torso looking incredibly toned and taught. X-Men: First Class, due to be released in 2011, will be directed by Brit Matthew Vaughn – fresh off his controversial superhero hit Kick-Ass. It will be McAvoy’s second comic book-based action series, after scoring a hit alongside Angelina Jolie with 2008’s Wanted – which is now getting its own sequel. Professor Charles Francis Xavier, the character’s full name, was popularised in the big screen trilogy by fellow Brit Patrick Stewart. A wheelchair-bound scientific genius with telepathic powers, he heads a school for youngsters with mutant powers and leads the X-Men team against rival Magneto’s Brotherhood. The new film will show the duo’s friendship in their younger years as they worked together against a common foe before a rift turned them against each other. Bryan Singer, who directed the original X-Men and its sequel, conceived the story.
Oh yes … yes, yes, yes … I wholeheartedly approve. I think McAvoy’s casting as Professor X is genius … I cannot wait to see who they will cast opposite him as a young Magneto/Max Eisenhardt. If X-Men: First Class is planning to feature James McAvoy lookin’ this good and his half nekkid, then sign me up. I am so on board with this casting … what do YOU think?
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