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Morena Baccarin to play female lead in Deadpool

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After recently securing roles in the DC shows Gotham and The Flash, Morena Baccarin is now turning her hand to Marvel, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the former Firefly star has nabbed the female lead in 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool. Baccarin was one of several actresses on the shortlist for the role, with Taylor […]

Sophie Turner compares Jean Grey to Game of Thrones’ Sansa Stark

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Back in January it was announced that Sophie Turner has secured the role of the younger Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse, where she’ll be joined by fellow franchise newcomers Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers / Cyclops and Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe / Storm. During an interview with IGN, Turner spoke about her casting in […]

Hugh Jackman on the chances of Wolverine joining Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Late last night, Spider-Man fans got the news they’ve been waiting for with the announcement Sony and Marvel Studios have reached an agreement that will see the web-slinger swinging into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Pre-Sony hack, it was a move that no one saw coming, and will of course allow Spider-Man to share the screen […]

Shortlist of actresses for the female lead in Deadpool revealed

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According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox and director Tim Miller have identified a shortlist of actresses for the female lead to star alongside Ryan Reynolds’ in the studio’s X-Men spin-off Deadpool. The site reports that Morena Baccarin (Gotham), Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black), Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf), Rebecca Rittenhouse (The Red Band Society), […]

Gambit loses its director

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News has broken today that director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) has left 20th Century Fox’s X-Men spinoff Gambit. Deadline are reporting that Fox made the decision to push the production of the film – which will see Channing Tatum play the titular role – back to March, and for that reason Wyatt is no longer available […]

Channing Tatum may be exiting Fox’s Gambit movie

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Despite making an appearance just a couple weeks ago at Fox’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, it looks like Channing Tatum may be dropping out of 2016’s X-Men spinoff Gambit. While nothing is official yet, The Wrap reports that the actor’s deal to star as the title character is certainly in “jeopardy,” although Fox is in the […]

Ryan Reynolds explains why Deadpool isn’t scared of Batman v Superman, X-Men and Captain America: Civil War

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2016 is going to be a stacked year for comic book movies with the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse and Suicide Squad. Also in that list is the smaller budget Deadpool, but one man who isn’t afraid of the competition is the Merc with the Mouth himself, Ryan […]

SDCC: Halle Berry keen for a Storm spin-off X-Men film

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With 20th Century Fox’s big panel coming up over the weekend – where we may see our first glimpses of Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse – former X-Woman Halle Berry said that she would love to reprise her role as Storm, perhaps in her own film. Speaking at her SDCC panel for CBS […]

Former Gambit Taylor Kitsch gives Channing Tatum his blessing

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Channing Tatum may be playing Ragin’ Cajun Remy LeBeau in 2016’s Gambit solo film, but he’s not the first actor to play the card-throwing mutant on the big screen. That title belongs to True Detective and Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch, who played the character in the critically derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. When the X-Men universe was course-corrected with last year’s X-Men: Days […]