Wednesday, August 18, 2010

New Casting for X-Men First Class


Well, this is becoming something larger than Marvel itself.

The casting of Emma Frost has changed. Now January Jones is the White Queen and Miss Zoe Kravitz is Angel?

Deadline reports
20th Century Fox has rounded out the cast of X-Men: First Class, and the big surprise is that Mad Men star January Jones has been signed to play the role of Emma Frost, the gorgeous mutant with telepathic powers. At the same time, director Matthew Vaughn has set Zoe Kravitz to play Angel; Jason Flemyng will play Azazel, the father of Nightcrawler; Bill Milner to play the young version of Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and Morgan Lily to play the Young Raven. They join Fassbender, James McAvoy (Xavier), Nicholas Hoult (Beast) Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee), Lucas Till (Havoc), Edi Gathegi (Darwin), who round out the mutant contingent. Kevin Bacon is playing the villain, Rose Byrne will play McAvoy's love interest Moira MacTaggert, and Oliver Platt is playing The Man in Black. Production begins August 23 in London.

I'm still trying to figure this out. I guess this will be a Hell of a ride.

2 comments:

Prince Todd said...

wait? Warren Worthington is a black girl?

WilsonW said...

LOL @ Toddy!! Nope she's Angel Salvador, a mutant who has the abilities of a fly. She has insect wings on her back and can spew acid from her mouth(I know attractive right!!)

Also, Zoe isn't black per se is she? Both her parents are mixed, (half black/ half Jewish) so she would still be fifty/fifty wouldn't she? Even though her parents appear to both be black, Zoe would still technically be mixed as though she had one black and one jewish parent, right??

Also Angel Salvador is also not black she is Latin, as you can tell by her name.

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