Aaron Taylor-Johnson remains the frontrunner to play the speedy hero in "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" for writer/director Joss Whedon where the Witch will appear with her brother.
Singer also spoke about how he can "justify bringing Xavier back because he transferred his consciousness [as seen in the end tag for "X-Men: The Last Stand] and could possibly construct a body around that consciousness".
The latest sequel is based on a -2 issue story arc in the 'X-Men' comics published in 1981. Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes) is on board to pen the screenplay which will include New Mutants. Magneto and his relationship with Charles X. Xavier will be front and center as well.
Singer penned the treatment and produced 'First Class' which was directed by Matthew Vaughn. Now, their roles will be completely reversed for this sequel with Singer helming the film while Vaughn wrote the treatment and will produce with Lauren Shuler Donner and writer Simon Kinberg
Most of “X-Men: First Class” cast will reprise their roles, including James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto) Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Nicholas Hoult (Beast). Lucas Till (Alex “Havoc” Summers) Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert) recently confirmed that she is NOT in this film...
The original trilogy stars Sir Ian McKellen Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman are already poised to return again as well. Anna Paquin (Rogue), Ellen Page (Kitty Pride) and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman)Halle Berry (Storm). It seems Alan Cumming.(Nightcrawler) will not return. James Marsden has confirmed that he will NOT return as Cyclops
The teams will join forces to battle the Sentinels--mutant-hunting robots--created by Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage).
Daniel Cudmore is returning as Colossus and BooBoo Stewart is also in the film--character as yet unknown. Chinese actress Fan Bingbing has joined the film--as Blink, a mutant with the power of teleportation. Aussie soap "Home and Away" actor Josh Helman -- once rumored to be playing a young Cyclops -- will portray Bill Stryker. In X2: X-Men United Brian Cox played him and in X-Men Origins: Wolverine Danny Huston took over. French actor Omar Sy plays Bishop and Adan Canto also star.
Production on the sequel is well underway "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" hits screens May 23, 2014.
Meanwhile, "Kick-Ass 2" filmmaker Jeff Wadlow spoke about the X-Men film series spin off X-Force--Specifically on the film's tone and how it might fit with the other films.
He tells Bleeding Cool:
"Tonally it will fit in, quite well with all the other movies… but then I think the other movies cover a wide range of tones. It’s certainly not going to be tonally similar to Kick-Ass...I hope it will have what fans of X-Force will expect. I think it will be a little edgier, I think you'll see some characters with different takes on what it means to be a mutant. There will be some grey areas that the movies haven’t yet been explored. It won’t be as "overt." This movie is more about the grey areas in between. I'm going to take some big ideas from the X-universe and flip them, I think in an interesting way"
The "X-Force" was created by Rob Liefeld in the early 1990s described as a more aggressive and darker mutant team. Various fan favorite characters moved in and out of the team including Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable, Psylocke, Cannonball, Domino, Warpath, Sunspot and Colossus.
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