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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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Young X-Men don’t have the same box-office superpowers as their older selves.
“X-Men: First Class” had a solid No. 1 opening with a $56 million weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
But the 20th Century Fox prequel chronicling the formative years of the comic-book mutants found smaller audiences than the franchise’s first four big-screen adventures, which featured older versions of the X-Men.
Debut weekends for the last three “X-Men” flicks ranged from $85.1 million to $102.8 million. The original “X-Men” opened 11 years ago with $54.5 million, but that would amount to about $80 million today adjusting for ticket-price inflation.
Fox distribution executive Chris Aronson said the studio achieved its goal of opening the prequel at about the same revenue numbers as the original “X-Men.”
“This is just an excellent start in launching a brand new chapter of the `X-Men’ franchise,” said Aronson, dismissing comparisons to the $85.1 million debut of Hugh Jackman’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” in 2009.
“You can’t compare this one to any of the other `X-Men’ movies, except maybe” the first one, Aronson said. “Something like `Wolverine’ is a totally unfair comparison because that had a bonafide worldwide star in Hugh Jackman and arguably the most popular character in the `X-Men’ stable.”
The prequel presents a rising cast of new talent rather than the established stars of the franchise’s previous chapters.
“X-Men: First Class” features James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Marvel Comics mutants Professor X and Magneto, roles originated by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the characters’ older years.
The prequel follows their first meeting, early alliance and eventual falling out as they take opposite approaches in their dealings with ordinary humans fearful of the superpowered mutants.
The movie added $64 million from 74 overseas markets for a worldwide total of $120 million.
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ATONEMENT star James McAvoy’s wife has broken her silence to speak about the other “man” in her life.
Anne-Marie Duff, 40, said their baby son Brendan was “the most beautiful creature in the world”.
The actress said: “I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world.
“I know all mothers and fathers feel that way. Yes, he’s just gorgeous.”
Duff and McAvoy, nine years her junior, are intensely private and the name of their son, who is set to turn one, has only now been revealed.
The couple met on the set of Channel 4′s Shameless in which they played a couple.
Duff said her son was named after dad Brendan, a painter and decorator who moved to Britain with his wife Mary from Ireland.
Duff and McAvoy chose not to know the sex of their baby before his born in London.
Duff said: “We thought we were going to have girl, so we had 15 girls names lined up and a little boy popped out.
“We had no idea and we had hardly any boys’ names. He’s a Brendan and it suits him really, really well.
“I do feel my life’s completely expanded since he arrived.
“When my baby was born, I felt like somebody had spiked my drink and I suddenly was so full of love that it was a little bit as if I was drugged..
“I didn’t think that anyone could feel that way.”
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The X-Men: First Class star is in final negotiations to star in Welcome to the Punch, a thriller set in London due to start filming in July. Eran Creevy is the writer-director, and the producers are Rory Aitken, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Ben Pugh of Between the Eyes in London. Creevy has described Welcome to the Punch as being “an epic crime thriller in the mould of Heat or Internal Affairs.” Creevy got a lot of attention over here for his 2008 micro-budget debut Shifty, which he shot for $150,000 and was nominated for a BAFTA. He has also shot music videos for artists including Take That and ad spots for Nike. McAvoy is repped by Ruth Young at United Agents in London and by UTA in the U.S.
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Joe Wright is already reuniting with one of his Atonement stars for his planned Anna Karenina film, which will star Keira Knightley, and now he may be bringing the other two on board as well. According to an article by Anne Thompson at IndieWire about British production company Working Title, Anna Karenina has been greenlit by Universal, and Wright is eyeing both James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan for roles in the sprawling film. Jude Law and Aaron Johnson are already on board.
Both Ronan and McAvoy are keeping very busy schedules these days, though now that Ronan won’t be playing the Snow White part she was heavily rumored for (it went to Lily Collins) she may have a free spot on her schedule. She and Wright are spending plenty of time together as they make the rounds to promote their new film Hanna, so it makes sense that they’d have time to talk over whichever role he wants her to play in Anna Karenina. As for McAvoy, his future will be determined by how X-Men: First Class performs this summer–he may have many years of playing Professor Xavier ahead of him. Beyond that, though, he can probably make a reunion with Wright work.
Though Hanna, a modern-day action thriller with strong fairy tale elements, is a bit of a departure from the polished period world of Atonement, Anna Karenina gets Wright back to what he established early as his wheelhouse. It’s a classic story that’s building a phenomenal cast– there’s nothing not to hotly anticipate here.
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James McAvoy leads the way to the past in ”X-Men: First Class,” which opens June 3 and presents him as a younger Charles Xavier, the mutant master who sees the world in very different ways than his frenemy, Erik, who is destined to become Magneto. Our Geoff Boucher caught up with McAvoy a few weeks ago while the 31-year-old Scottish actor was shooting the Fox film in L.A.
Read the interview HERE at LATimes.com.
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X-Men: First Class has been nominated for the Logo Channel’s NewNowNext Awards under the category, Next Must-See Movie. Now in its fourth year, this influential awards show will not look at the year that passed, but will instead focus on what is up-and-coming in popular culture in 2011 and beyond.
WANT TO SEE THEM WIN? GET VOTES! Voting has begun and ends Friday, March 4th. VOTE HERE!
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Another love story, Disney’s animated adventure “Gnomeo & Juliet,” opened solidly at No. 3 with $25.5 million. The movie features the voices of Emily Blunt and James McAvoy in a twist on “Romeo and Juliet” told with garden gnomes.
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