Watch X-Men: First Class - More Casting News & Rumors

With only weeks (reported last week) until the start of filming on X-Men: First Class there are still casting announcements being made.

The most recent hard announcement is that Jason Flemyng has been cast as Azazel, father of Nightcrawler. This is another example of characters coming from myth to the big screen for the First Class movie. There will be characters that movie goers have never seen or heard of before.

My recommendation is to check out Wikipedia.

The second rumbling is that Rose Byrne is coming to the cast to play Moira MacTaggert. Previously it was rumored that Rosamund Pike was going to play the part of MacTaggert after Alice Eve got the role of Emma Frost.

But it looks like that has fallen through, though I haven't been able to find out why at all.

Either way, with things getting close to starting, be prepared for more news probably more than once a day.

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X-Men: First Class - Casting News/Rumours!

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like the director Matthew Vaughn has found 2 of his leading ladies for X-Men: First Class.

Rumour has it that Amber Heard (Zombieland, The Stepfather) will be playing a younger version of Mystique than we have ever seen before. It’s unknown how central Mystique will be to the story in First Class, but having her in there isn’t a terrible idea.

Also, there are some men of the opinion that Amber Heard will look quite good in Rebecca Romijn’s blue paint. I’ll leave that decision up to you.

The second rumoured casting note would see Rosamund Pike (Surrogates) in the role of Moira MacTaggert. MacTaggert is a Scottish scientist who specializes in genetic mutation and wins a Nobel Prize because of her work in the field. She may also be shown as a former love interest of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).

With a scheduled release date of June 3, 2011 X-Men: First Class will probably be giving us lots of rumours and confirmations in the near future.

Stay tuned!

Amber Heard

Rosamund Pike