Edi Gathegi, who played the vampire Laurent in Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, will play a biracial mutant named Darwin in X-Men: First Class, reports Deadline.
Deadline also reports that Aaron Johnson is still rumored to play the role of Cyclops although EW says Johnson’s he’s not playing Cyclops or any other role in the movie. EW also said that Fox is releasing the names of characters who aren’t in the film so that it will be a surprise for fans when it’s announced which roles the actors are really playing.
X-Men: First Class, following the classicMarvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. BeforeCharles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X andMagneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the firsttime. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends,working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stopthe greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a riftbetween them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.
Gathegi joins a cast that also includes Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Alice Eve, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till, and Kevin Bacon.
Matthew Vaughn is directing the film, which is being written Jane Goldman.
X-Men: First Class is set to open on June 3, 2011.
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