Sequels X-men reboot casting call

[javphonic]

recasting Charles is too hard so I'll prefer a Casino Royale-esque style reboot where Dench was able to maintain her role. So onwards and upwards...

agreed

Storm: Kerry Washington Talented and Beautiful.

funny, when asked which young actress Halle B. would like to play her if a biographical film was made she said Kerry W.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Kerry Washington is not sexy. I rather have Halle Berry for Storm again.

 

[Brian2887]

Ok. I've avoided reading this thread so I wouldn't steal any picks. There may be some repeats, but they're entirely coincidental. Tonight, I'll start with the major players, but I'll get to more characters in the next couple days.

The X-Men:

Professor Charles Xavier - The thing about Xavier is that, no matter how altruistic he acts, how kind, can you really trust him? The fact remains that he can read minds and control thoughts. Sure, he says he stays out of your head, and he probably does...but you've gotta wonder.
John Malkovich (Burn After Reading, The Man In The Iron Mask)

Cyclops - I'm not gonna knock James Marsden for his portrayal of Cyclops. The guy's a good actor, but he just wasn't written well. This time around, the guy needs to be straight-laced, intense, a born leader. He's got a long fuse, but you wouldn't want to light it. He's not good at leaving his intensity behind him, but Jean does her best to coax it out of him.
Ryan Gosling (Fracture, Half Nelson)

Marvel Girl - Tricky role. She has to be strong enough to earn a place in the field, flirty and kind enough to draw Scott out of his shell, tough enough to handle Wolverine, and you've gotta believe she's smart and almost as psychically strong as Xavier. Then, a whole new level of acting is needed come time for the Phoenix saga.
Emily Blunt (Sunshine Cleaning, The Devil Wears Prada)

Beast - Crazy intelligent and wracked with self-loathing. Self-deprecatingly funny and truly witty. A gentle and depressed giant who is an animal in combat. So many juxtapositions and interesting bits in this character.
William Brad Henke (Choke, Lost)

Storm - Otherworldly and powerful. Beyond strong. A goddess in her previous life. She's not the namby-pamby Halle Berry brought to the screen. It'll take a real actress to effectively portray Ororo. Someone like...
Taraji P. Henson (Smokin' Aces, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Iceman - A young, impetuous prankster. But, he can hold his own.
Hunter Parrish (Weeds, 17 Again)

Wolverine - Maybe the toughest role to cast well. He's gotta be psychotically violent, short-fused, the baddest motha around. Battle-hardened, but he still looks like a relatively young man. He's an amnesiac with a tragic past that continues to haunt him. He's brutal, a loner, who slower comes over to the X-Men's side. Not an easy role, and it requires an actor who's more than just a muscle-bound action star.
Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Day The Earth Stood Still)

 

[Brian2887]

The Bad Guys:

Erik Magnus Lensherr / Magneto - The flipside to Xavier's coin. He's refined, well-spoken. It's easy to understand why he has a following. But, he's also brutal. No mercy. He'll go to extreme lengths to ensure not only the survival of the mutant race, but for its ultimate supremacy. He'd die for his cause, kill for it. Some would call him nuts, some would call him a visionary. Really, he's probably somewhere in the middle.
Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With A Vengeance, Kingdom of Heaven)

Quicksilver - Regal and intense, Magneto's heir. Everything he does, he does for his father's approval. He's got a real stick up his ass, but he's not someone you'd want to mess with on the battlefield.
Charlie Hunnam (Children of Men, Sons of Anarchy)

Scarlet Witch - Magneto's daughter. She believes in her father's work, but has actual sympathy for the humans.
Jaime Murray (Dexter, The Deaths of Ian Stone)

Toad - Grotesque strange little dude. Not much more depth needed than that.
Nate Mooney (Push, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia)

Sabretooth - Feral. Evil. Vicious. Wolverine dialed up 1000 degrees. He's a tracker, a hunter, a black-hearted killer.
Kevin Durand (3:10 to Yuma, Smokin' Aces) <and no, I don't care that he played the Blob. That barely counts.>

Mystique - Interesting role. I liked the reptilian way she was portrayed in X-Men, but she's a little more complex than that. She's a real femme fatale. Always a step ahead. Brilliant. Really, she's Magneto's right-hand.
Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, Sweeney Todd)

 

[CB Fan]

I've always pictured Emily Blunt as Mystique, for some reason.

 

[QWoods]

Here's who I can recast/cast

Professor X - Pierce Brosnan
Cyclops - Jared Padalecki
Jean Grey - Rachel McAdams
Storm - Aisha Tyler
Emma Frost - Kelly Carlson
Angel - Justin Hartley
Rogue - Eliza Dushku
Kitty - Michelle Trachtenberg
Gambit - Ian Somerhalder
Banshee - Sean Bean
Bishop - Idris Elba
Iceman - Bret Harrison
Quicksilver - Cam Gigandet
Scarlet Witch - Anne Hathaway
Pyro - Jamie Bell
Mystique - Rose McGowan
Juggernaut - Dominic Purcell
Mr. Sinister - Keith David
Apocalypse - Michael Clark Duncan
Magik - Dakota Fanning
Cable - Bruce Willis
Rachel Summers - Kate Mara
Callisto - Michelle Rodriguez
Stepford Cuckoos - Taylor Momsen
Lady Deathstrike - Zhang Ziyi