Aint It Cool News is feeling pretty certain that the young squad leader of the X-Men has been cast in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, and that it’s none other than Aaron Johnson. Johnson starred as Kick-Ass in Vaughn’s last film, Kick-Ass, and had also been rumored to be in the running for the lead in Spider-Man (whose casting director must be sharing an office with Vaughn’s or something).
Johnson’s an okay choice for the role; weirdly I don’t think he’s stiff enough. Josh Hutcherson had been a name I had heard bandied about and I liked him for the part – he’s much more starchy. But then again, Johnson’s apparently a real actor, so maybe he can shed the aw-shucks charm and be a more rigid, square dude when he dons a ruby red visor.
Even though I’m not psyched about Johnson for the role, he’s a fine choice in general. Some site ran a story this week that Fox is trying to turn First Class into a Twilight clone by stuffing it with hot guyz, but the casting so far – while heavy on hot guys – doesn’t seem to support that. While the actors announced are all foine, they’re also fine actors.
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he did a great job as a young john lennon in Nowhere Boy. def no aw shucks charm in that movie, apart from maybe when it seemed like his mom was comin on to him. got some range anyway.
"Heavy on hot guys"??? Aaron Johnson, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender are good actors, but hot? Not so much.
Towelie McTowel only responds to bald, one-eyed men. – Codes are back. Just as reliable…Fark.
..or not
Hope he can act from behind the shades he's gonna be wearing.
whoa hey now wait a second there, Towelie.
Are…are your sexual organs, like…blind?
It's okay. You can tell us.
Sooooo, Cyclops is about 5 years younger than the Prof?
@ 3 & 6, Haha, no my sexual organs work fine; it's just that they're only attracted to HOT guys (Definitely not bald, one-eyed men). But I'm not complaining about the casting; as unnecessary as another superhero reboot is at the moment, at least they're getting a strong cast and a good director.
Doesn't matter, the character will be nerfed like he was in the Singer movies and that weird amateur slashfic sequel that some amateur director made with the original cast.
It's to do with his eyes. If you can't see a character's eyes, hollywood has a problem with it – it's why Spidey's mask kept falling off all through those movies.
See also Iron Man (featuring super breakaway mask), Batman (no white eyes), Wolverine (no mask, ever)
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