Evan Peters lands ‘X-Men’ role
Evan Peters will star as Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer has confirmed on Twitter.
The American Horror Story star will play speedy mutant Quicksilver – a character who is also due to appear in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers sequel – in the forthcoming superhero film, and director Bryan Singer is "thrilled" to have landed the 26-year-old actor for the role.
The filmmaker tweeted: "Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.(sic)"
Peters will star alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Ellen Page and Michael Fassbender in the motion picture, but his alter-ego looks unlikely to specifically mention The Avengers in the X-Men movie.
Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige told SuperHeroHype: "They can use [the characters] as mutants and as Magneto’s relatives, but cannot have anything to do with The Avengers."
The new X-Men installment will see the stars of the original trilogy unite with the cast of 2011’s prequel X-Men: First Class in a time-travelling plot when the future of the mutant race is jeopardised.
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