In a surprise announcement this evening, the HeatVision Blog over at The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive on the first casting news on Fox’s upcoming ‘X-Men: First Class’. ”Wanted” alum James McAvoy will be playing a younger Professor X aka Charles Xavier. The movie will be directed by Matthew Vaughn of ‘Kick-Ass’ fame and has a release date of June 3, 2011. According to Fox the story will be as follows:
“X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were the closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.”
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