Xavier Taking Magneto's Movie Roles Now
Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy: They're best friends, probably! The two have already shared scenes in X-Men: First Class and fluids with Keira Knightley, and now they're going to have a little trade for the lead in Danny Boyle's Trance remake. While Fassbender had been in negotiations for the role--that of an art heist inside man who gets amnesia and can't recall where he stored the goods, forcing his co-conspirators to put him in a hypnotic trance to remember--he's since dropped out, and now best friend James McAvoy is in early talks for it. Don't worry, though; there won't be any awkwardness between them. They're best friends forever (probably).
In the first trailer for Danny Boyle's Trance, we learned that star James McAvoy would get his head clunked real good, thus forgetting where he hid a stolen painting. But as it turns out, that's only the beginning of the film's cartoonish head trauma. As you'll see in this new,... / Continue →
From Danny Boyle and a loose grasp of amnesia and hypnosis comes Trance, a thriller about a heist gone wrong thanks to double-crossing and getting thunked in the head real good. James McAvoy stars as an art auctioneer in cahoots with thief Vincent Cassel and his gang to steal a... / Continue →
Moving the setting of Akira from futuristic Neo-Tokyo to the equally-futuristic-but-more-American Neo-Manhattan won't be the only change Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are making to the manga/anime classic. They're still going to make the cast pretty old, too! And white, n... / Continue →
