X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 05:21 PM

We've got a new (and yet, also old) director officially attached to this property, so we now can look forward at things from his creative perspective. We know Bryan's style and his often brilliant--if not sometimes unconventional--casting choices of the past.

So feel free to post your wishlist of new "younglings"--and their mutant teachers--here for X-Men Origins: First Class.

flavio_lebeau · 12-19-2009, 05:26 PM

omgomgomg

i'm excited to be an x-men fan again.

i'll try and think.

also HAI LS!

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 05:38 PM

Hello Flavio. It shooould be a reunion of sorts for many of the original board members once word spreads on Bryan's return. I hope you have been well buddy.

At any rate, I'm not going to post my actor/actress choices just yet because I want to think about it. But I will list the characters that I believe should have a presence in the film. This will be based on the set-up from Bryan's first X-Men film as well the need to flesh out some additional mutant relationships:

Professor Xavier
Emma Frost (after seeing Avatar this weekend I would still embrace Bryan's original idea of casting Sigourney Weaver in this role--it's just...unexpected).
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Storm (only because she is referenced in the first X-Men film as being an original student)
Beast

Now, here's where things get kinda sticky. Because of FOX's greed to cast every tom, dick and harry in X3, a number of classic X-Men that should be in this film cannot be.

For example, according to the comic timeline, Angel and Ice-Man are original members of the X-Men, but they wouldn't even be born according to the continuity of this movie franchise's timeline.

And this is where not sticking to the comics can come back and bite you in the ass later. And ironically enough, the decisions to cast Ice-Man, etc. as teens in school under the tutelage of an adult Storm, Charles, Jean and Scott were made by Bryan, so it will be interesting to see how he works around this absence.

**danoyse** · 12-19-2009, 05:40 PM

Someone mentioned Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cyclops earlier, and i think he'd be a great choice. The rest I need to think about.

Project862006 · 12-19-2009, 05:48 PM

i don't want Emma in this 2 woman is a enough i think it should be

Cyclops
Beast
Storm
Jean Grey
Banshee - since we cant have angel or iceman

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 05:53 PM

Ooh Banshee. Melikes...melikes!

I see Emma as an older teacher a la Xavier, not a peer of the students. She'd be like a stay-at-home mom when the kids go out to play with the sentinels and such.

Blackman · 12-19-2009, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danoyse

Someone mentioned Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cyclops earlier, and i think he'd be a great choice. The rest I need to think about.

I love JGL. One of my favorite actors out today. I'm happy hes getting recognition for 500 Days of Summer

But I dont like him as Cyclops

Deaths Head II · 12-19-2009, 06:01 PM

Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be a great choice for Cyclops.

Back when X-Men Origins: Magneto was a possibility, someone suggested Daniel Craig as a young Magneto. I think that could work.

Mad Ones · 12-19-2009, 06:03 PM

While I'm disappointed that Angel and Iceman can't be involved, because the entire group has a great dynamic in the comics, I actually think it might be for the better. They're just a very homogeneous group, and there's no room for diversity, which kind of goes against some of X-men's themes.

I'm not against Gambit or Emma being involved. I'd rather them NOT be X-men, but maybe part of the threat or some other actor in the story. Emma Frost could maybe start as an ally or something, and then we can see her become involved in the Hellfire club... for example.

I think Banshee, like other people have pointed out, would make a lot of sense and I would be happy with that. I was also thinking about if a member of New Mutants could maybe be the fifth member... like Cannonball perhaps. That's not very faithful, and I don't know how I'd feel about it, but it's a suggestion.

As for casting... I have no idea, but I can't wait until casting announcements start to happen. I'm very excited!

JP · 12-19-2009, 06:13 PM

It's amazing how an announcement of a director can rejuvenate my love for this franchise. I'm with Flavio, I'm excited to be an x-men fan again.

Anyway, I suppose it depends on how old the first class will be. Will we see them as 16-18 year olds? Or, will we see them as young adults in their 20's?

The X-Men are in there 30's at the start of X1.

Lets say we see the X-Men in their 20's. I'd definitely go with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Scott, and Olivia Wilde as Jean Grey.

Patrick Wilson could pull off a young Kelsey Grammer too.

AnnaLynne McCord for Emma Frost

However, if they are going younger, then the same Scott and Emma from XMO:W, and Haley Ramm as Jean.

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 06:21 PM

I'd

Patrick Wilson as a young Beast. Great idea JP.

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 06:30 PM

Also, can we please get a DARK-SKINNED Storm please? Not a biracial one (no offense Halle). We need to see more of a striking contrast between the white hair and skin tone FOX.

**danoyse** · 12-19-2009, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deaths Head II

Back when X-Men Origins: Magneto was a possibility, someone suggested Daniel Craig as a young Magneto. I think that could work.

Love Daniel Craig - just saw him in a play with Hugh Jackman a few weeks ago - he'd be an interesting choice for a younger Magneto. Although he's 41 now, so that might not work if they're intending for the him and Xavier to be in their 20s.

Oooh, Patrick Wilson as Beast would be quite cool.

Angamb · 12-19-2009, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flavio_lebeau

omgomgomg

i'm excited to be an x-men fan again.

i'll try and think.

also HAI LS!

Me too!!!! lol

Im happy about Bryan returning.

JP · 12-19-2009, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightning Strykez!

Also, can we please get a DARK-SKINNED Storm please? Not a biracial one (no offense Halle). We need to see more of a striking contrast between the white hair and skin tone FOX.

Please.

**danoyse** · 12-19-2009, 06:52 PM

How about Zoe Saldana as Storm? She was terrific in Star Trek (I haven't seen Avatar yet).

JP · 12-19-2009, 06:54 PM

Yes please^

Project862006 · 12-19-2009, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightning Strykez!

Ooh Banshee. Melikes...melikes!

I see Emma as an older teacher a la Xavier, not a peer of the students. She'd be like a stay-at-home mom when the kids go out to play with the sentinels and such.

i like that Emma being older

now on to casting :

Cyclops -Scott Porter

Jean Grey - Ashley Greene

Beast - ?

Banshee -?

Storm - Zoe Saldana

Angamb · 12-19-2009, 06:56 PM

I would like unknown actors.

we'd get into their roles more, I think.

Lightning Strykez! · 12-19-2009, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danoyse

How about Zoe Saldana as Storm? She was terrific in Star Trek (I haven't seen Avatar yet).

Zoe would be an inspired choice--she was brilliant in Avatar as well...this has been a good year for her.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angamb

I would like unknown actors.

we'd get into their roles more, I think.

I'm all for some unknowns, but we will need star power here if Wolverine is (hopefully) gonna be absent. Lack of star power can hurt films like these...just compare the Fantastic Four films versus, say, Iron Man.

Deaths Head II · 12-19-2009, 07:15 PM

The problem with unknown actors is that it's Fox. In the X-Films the bigger actors got the better roles most of the time.

Blackman · 12-19-2009, 07:34 PM

Is anyone opposed to Cannon being in the film? I dont know I just always thought that his powers would look cool on screen

Nightmare · 12-19-2009, 07:45 PM

Ashley Greene? Great lets have all the twilight fans come cheering this on. Mutants the new sparkly vampires!

Blackman · 12-19-2009, 07:47 PM

talk of Twilight actors I dont think that Robert PAttison would be a bad Quicksilver

Project862006 · 12-19-2009, 07:48 PM

hey she is pretty hot just an assumption

12-19-2009, 05:21 PM	#1
Lightning Strykez! Bringing Chaos To Order Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Where Mortals Fear To Tread Posts: 29,802	X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here We've got a new (and yet, also old) director officially attached to this property, so we now can look forward at things from his creative perspective. We know Bryan's style and his often brilliant--if not sometimes unconventional--casting choices of the past. So feel free to post your wishlist of new "younglings"--and their mutant teachers--here for X-Men Origins: First Class. __________________ The only advantage you'll ever have over me is that you can kiss my ass...and I can't.

12-19-2009, 05:26 PM	#2
flavio_lebeau Side-Kick Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brazil Posts: 5,276	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here omgomgomg i'm excited to be an x-men fan again. i'll try and think. also HAI LS!

12-19-2009, 05:38 PM	#3
Lightning Strykez! Bringing Chaos To Order Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Where Mortals Fear To Tread Posts: 29,802	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Hello Flavio. It shooould be a reunion of sorts for many of the original board members once word spreads on Bryan's return. I hope you have been well buddy. At any rate, I'm not going to post my actor/actress choices just yet because I want to think about it. But I will list the characters that I believe should have a presence in the film. This will be based on the set-up from Bryan's first X-Men film as well the need to flesh out some additional mutant relationships: Professor Xavier Emma Frost (after seeing Avatar this weekend I would still embrace Bryan's original idea of casting Sigourney Weaver in this role--it's just...unexpected). Cyclops Jean Grey Storm (only because she is referenced in the first X-Men film as being an original student) Beast Now, here's where things get kinda sticky. Because of FOX's greed to cast every tom, dick and harry in X3, a number of classic X-Men that should be in this film cannot be. For example, according to the comic timeline, Angel and Ice-Man are original members of the X-Men, but they wouldn't even be born according to the continuity of this movie franchise's timeline. And this is where not sticking to the comics can come back and bite you in the ass later. And ironically enough, the decisions to cast Ice-Man, etc. as teens in school under the tutelage of an adult Storm, Charles, Jean and Scott were made by Bryan, so it will be interesting to see how he works around this absence. __________________ The only advantage you'll ever have over me is that you can kiss my ass...and I can't.

12-19-2009, 05:40 PM	#4
danoyse Snikt. Stab. Repeat. SHH! Administrator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: A world I long to see. Posts: 17,621	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Someone mentioned Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cyclops earlier, and i think he'd be a great choice. The rest I need to think about. __________________ *"And remember, the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God."*

12-19-2009, 05:48 PM	#5
Project862006 Side-Kick Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 18,871	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here i don't want Emma in this 2 woman is a enough i think it should be Cyclops Beast Storm Jean Grey Banshee - since we cant have angel or iceman

12-19-2009, 05:53 PM	#6
Lightning Strykez! Bringing Chaos To Order Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Where Mortals Fear To Tread Posts: 29,802	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Ooh Banshee. Melikes...melikes! I see Emma as an older teacher a la Xavier, not a peer of the students. She'd be like a stay-at-home mom when the kids go out to play with the sentinels and such. __________________ The only advantage you'll ever have over me is that you can kiss my ass...and I can't.

12-19-2009, 06:03 PM	#9
Mad Ones Bebe le Strange Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: A kingdom in that house on the hill Posts: 1,022	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here While I'm disappointed that Angel and Iceman can't be involved, because the entire group has a great dynamic in the comics, I actually think it might be for the better. They're just a very homogeneous group, and there's no room for diversity, which kind of goes against some of X-men's themes. I'm not against Gambit or Emma being involved. I'd rather them NOT be X-men, but maybe part of the threat or some other actor in the story. Emma Frost could maybe start as an ally or something, and then we can see her become involved in the Hellfire club... for example. I think Banshee, like other people have pointed out, would make a lot of sense and I would be happy with that. I was also thinking about if a member of New Mutants could maybe be the fifth member... like Cannonball perhaps. That's not very faithful, and I don't know how I'd feel about it, but it's a suggestion. As for casting... I have no idea, but I can't wait until casting announcements start to happen. I'm very excited! __________________ D----------O-----------F-----------P Last edited by Mad Ones; 12-19-2009 at 06:09 PM.

12-19-2009, 06:13 PM	#10
JP Beastly Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 49,313	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here It's amazing how an announcement of a director can rejuvenate my love for this franchise. I'm with Flavio, I'm excited to be an x-men fan again. Anyway, I suppose it depends on how old the first class will be. Will we see them as 16-18 year olds? Or, will we see them as young adults in their 20's? The X-Men are in there 30's at the start of X1. Lets say we see the X-Men in their 20's. I'd definitely go with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Scott, and Olivia Wilde as Jean Grey. Patrick Wilson could pull off a young Kelsey Grammer too. AnnaLynne McCord for Emma Frost However, if they are going younger, then the same Scott and Emma from XMO:W, and Haley Ramm as Jean. __________________ James McAvoy \| Michael Fassbender \| Jennifer Lawrence \| Nicholas Hoult \| Peter Dinklage X-Men: Days of Future Past Patrick Stewart \| Ian McKellen \| Anna Paquin \| Ellen Page \| Shawn Ashmore \| and Hugh Jackman Omar Sy \| Fan Bingbing \| Booboo Stewart Last edited by JP; 12-19-2009 at 06:17 PM.

12-19-2009, 06:21 PM	#11
Lightning Strykez! Bringing Chaos To Order Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Where Mortals Fear To Tread Posts: 29,802	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here I'd Patrick Wilson as a young Beast. Great idea JP. __________________ The only advantage you'll ever have over me is that you can kiss my ass...and I can't.

12-19-2009, 06:30 PM	#12
Lightning Strykez! Bringing Chaos To Order Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Where Mortals Fear To Tread Posts: 29,802	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Also, can we please get a DARK-SKINNED Storm please? Not a biracial one (no offense Halle). We need to see more of a striking contrast between the white hair and skin tone FOX. __________________ The only advantage you'll ever have over me is that you can kiss my ass...and I can't.

12-19-2009, 06:52 PM	#16
danoyse Snikt. Stab. Repeat. SHH! Administrator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: A world I long to see. Posts: 17,621	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here How about Zoe Saldana as Storm? She was terrific in Star Trek (I haven't seen Avatar yet). __________________ *"And remember, the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God."*

12-19-2009, 06:54 PM	#17
JP Beastly Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 49,313	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Yes please^ __________________ James McAvoy \| Michael Fassbender \| Jennifer Lawrence \| Nicholas Hoult \| Peter Dinklage X-Men: Days of Future Past Patrick Stewart \| Ian McKellen \| Anna Paquin \| Ellen Page \| Shawn Ashmore \| and Hugh Jackman Omar Sy \| Fan Bingbing \| Booboo Stewart

12-19-2009, 06:56 PM	#19
Angamb Side-Kick Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Spain Posts: 10,611	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here I would like unknown actors. we'd get into their roles more, I think. __________________ Future of the X-Men * 2014: X-men: Days of future past * 2016: 'X-men 4' (full original cast back) * 2018: 'X-men 5' * 2020: X-men: 'First Class 3' (80's) -> Want another movie with full original cast? if so, JOIN US: https://twitter.com/X4Campaign

12-19-2009, 07:45 PM	#23
Nightmare Permission To Die Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Elm Street Posts: 18,198	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here Ashley Greene? Great lets have all the twilight fans come cheering this on. Mutants the new sparkly vampires! __________________ After they killed me, I became something much, much worse. The stuff nightmares are made of. The children still feared me, and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams, and that's when the fun REALLY began.

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Project862006 Side-Kick Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 18,871	Re: X-Men Origins: First Class--Post Your Casting Choices Here hey she is pretty hot just an assumption

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