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Sir Ian McKellen’s wizarding boots may be pretty big to fill, but ‘X Men: First Class’ actor James McAvoy has admitted that he’s desperate to take on the role of Gandalf in the prequel to Peter Jackson’s film ‘The Hobbit’.
Not that, y’know, the director has one planned or anything.
Yup, despite the fact a prequel hasn’t even been mentioned by Peter Jackson’s camp yet, James McAvoy has put himself forward for the role of a young Gandalf should any of the Tolkien books preceding the events of ‘The Hobbit’ get made in future.
James McAvoy, clearly impressed by the massive success of ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ in the box office, has staked his claim for a role in a possible future adaptation of JRR Tolkein’s ‘The Silmarillion’.
Total Film quoted the actor in his reverie of Tolkien’s work, as he admitted he would love Peter jackson to consider him as Sir Ian McKellen’s replacement someday:
“It’s a collection of poems and songs that chart the ancient history of Middle Earth. My true geek is coming to the fore, but they’re really, really beautiful stories.”
“In part of that is the genesis of Gandalf, or Mithrandir, or Stormcrow, or any of his many, many names. Anyway, maybe that’s the one!”
Intriguing; we wonder whether that’s enough to persuade Peter Jackson to continue the franchise?
In the meantime, Sir Ian McKellen seems to be doing a pretty nifty job alongside Martin Freeman in ‘The Hobbit’ – we can’t wait for the second instalment of the trilogy later this year.
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DreamWorks are in negotiations with James McAvoy, because they want him to star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the as-of-yet untitled WikiLeaks film. According to Variety, the Scottish actor is in talks to tackle the role of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, while Cumberbatch will be playing the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The film is partially based on Berg’s book ‘Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World’s Most Dangerous Website’, so it’s a meaty role for James to take on if the rumours are true. The film is set to be directed by Bill Condon, and will also draw from ‘WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy’ by David Leigh and Luke Harding, so when it comes out it’ll likely be a flick you have to abandon partycasino.com/ and Facebook to give your full attention to.
Julian Assange is Australian, and Daniel Domscheit-Berg is German, so it might raise a few eyebrows when you consider the two main actors in consideration are both British. However both are amazing actors, and as luck would have it, the pair have worked together before. Twice. In Atonement and Starter for 10, so they’re likely to have good chemistry.
The WikiLeaks film will follow Assange and Berg as the company is founded and detail Berg’s eventual disenchantment with Assange’s leadership, resulting in his leaving WikiLeaks in 2010.
Just a few weeks ago it was rumoured that Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) was in “conversation” to play the part of Domscheit-Berg, however he was never officially attached to the project, and it looks like James McAvoy could be steeping in.
A start date has not been announced for the project yet, which was written for the screen by Josh Singer (The West Wing), however we should know soon whether James’ involvement is for definite.
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Bryan Singer, director of “Days of Future Past,” tweeted the news Tuesday.
Bryan Singer is uniting the X-Men.
Singer is combining James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to X:Men: First Class.
Stewart and McKellen portrayed X-Men founder Prof. Charles Xavier and renegade mutant leader Magneto in the original X-Men movies, the first two of which Singer directed and produced.
McAvoy and Fassbender played Xavier and Magneto in First Class, the 2011 reboot of the franchise which was set in the early 1960s.
Days of Future Past is a classic storyline that unfolded in two-issues of Uncanny X-Men in 1981, from writer Chris Claremont and artists John Byrne and Terry Austin. The story was partially set in an alternate future where surviving mutants have been penned in concentration camps, giant robots named Sentinels patrol America, and most of the X-Men have been hunted and killed. In the present day, the X-Men were forced to stop a key event from unfolding in order to keep that future from occurring.
With First Class using different X-Men than the 1980s comics, fan speculation how the storylines will translate and combine is sure to run wild.
Also up as a question is whether Hugh Jackman, who starred as Wolverine in the first trilogy and made a cameo in First Class, will come back for Days of Future Past.
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