X-Men 3 Adds New Mutants! with Matthew Vaughn of Layer Cake fame set to direct March 19th 2005 07:20pm | Posted by: Editor-in-Chief Aint it Cool News reported the other day that three new characters are joining the X-Men 3. Gambit, Beast, and Angel have all supposedly been given the go ahead. AICN also says that Gambit will be played by a big name, and that Angel will be a girl! Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn is set to direct a story that is said to center on the Dark Phoenix saga. Both Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn wrote scripts, but AICN says the studio will use Penn's draft for the movie. In related casting news, while Hugh Jackman (who is also producing), Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming and more are all coming back, Halle Berry still isn't sure (We think she will). Fox and Marvel Studios are eyeing a Memorial Day, 2006 release date for X-Men 3. Production is set to start in Vancouver later this spring. Source: AICN In: X-Men 3 |Visit the HNR Forums

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