Actor Benjamin Walker is up for Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. as the Beast says Showbiz 411
Beast has superhuman agility and strength, and originally had a human appearance before an experiment progressed his mutation and gave him blue fur, claws and fangs.
Walker has been in movies for quite a while -- seen in Flags of Our Fathers and Kinsey.
He joins James McAvoy, who is playing the younger version of Patrick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier and possibly Rosamund Pike who is playing either Emma Frost or Moira MacTaggert; ; Michael Fassbender is linked to play a young Magneto; Aaron Johnson to an unspecified character, said to be Cyclops.
The Beast was previously played by Kelsey Grammer in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Class comes to theaters June 3rd, 2011
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