Quicksilver

Wow. A week since my last post. I wish I could say I've been really busy, but honestly I've just been too lazy to search for topics to post about, because its been kinda slow on news lately, not a lot going on. That just changed.

Listen up, kids. This could get interesting.

Let's look at the timeline, shall we?

Last year, the Avengers hit theaters on May 2013, and changed superhero movies forever.

In April of 2013, Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel, was asked about the characters of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Basically the confusion comes from the fact that Fox has film rights to X-Men and mutant properties, while Marvel Studios has film rights to Avengers characters, but Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch started in the comics as mutant villains to the X-Men (they are Magneto's children), but they reformed and became Avengers, where they have been for a long time. So they belong to both worlds. When asked about how they could be used in films, Feige had this to say:

“It’s a little complicated, but if they [Fox, which holds the X-Men rights] want to use them in the X-Men movie they could, [but] if we want to use them in The Avengers movie, we could.”

Back on January 28, I published this post on the Scarlet Witch and how she and her brother Quicksilver could be used as a way for Fox and Marvel Studios to tie their properties together without fully crossing over.

Fast forward to April 28, when I published this post about Joss Whedon suggesting that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were in his current script for Avengers 2. A few days later, this was confirmed. Joss' quote was this:

"I've got these two characters...two of my favorite characters from the comic books, a brother-sister act, they're in the movie, that's exciting..."

Now today, May 23, Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men movies (see what epic plan he's doing here) tweeted this:

Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.

So we now have an actor officially cast as Quicksilver, but in the X-Men franchise. Will this interpretation be as a hero or a villain?

More importantly, will this tie in at all to the Quicksilver we may see in Avengers 2? Will it be the same character? The same actor? Or will the studios simply ignore each other, and each have their own actor in their own interpretation of the character? I think that's a bad move, I think that will confuse audiences.

The only other examples I can think of where the same fictional character was portrayed by two different actors at the same time are James Bond in 1983 (Roger Moore and Sean Connery) and Clark Kent/Superman in 2006 (Tom Welling and Brandon Routh) - although that was TV/Film, as opposed to two films. Still, Bryan Singer directed that film, and should have learned that it was a bad idea. I really hope that they put this actor in both franchises, or only use Peters in the "past" scenes as a young Quicksilver, and use another actor during the "present" in Avengers 2 as an older version of the character. Unfortunately, its been stated that both of the Maximoff's will be portrayed as younger characters in Avengers 2, so that won't work. So please, put this guy in both. Make it work well together!

X-Men: Days of Future Past is officially filming, and here's a first look at Jennifer Lawrence, back in blue as Mystique.