The Astonishing X-Men Fan Cast (UPDATED)

The Astonishing X-Men Fan Cast (UPDATED)

My fan cast for an X-Men reboot!

By Treebeard - May 24, 2011 12:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic

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Well to start off and give you some background info on my idea, there is no origin story or anything lame. We all know the story ha ha. I want it to start off with all these news clips as the credits roll. People are being killed by mutants, and a bunch of anti-mutant rallies speeding up more and more rapidly and louder and louder until it cuts to black and silence and a close up. Then a shot of a woman's mouth into a microphone fades in as she says "No more mutants." Cut to black and The Astonishing X-Men fades in. So basically the premise is Mutants are being roped up and contained in camps but the X-Men resist. The government hires Dr. Bolivar Trask to create the Sentinels to hunt down remaining mutants.



Anyway, that's basically the idea with Trask being the main villain as well as a few Sentinels and he's a nut job who HATES mutants.



So without further ado, the cast of The Astonishing X-Men:




Matthew Fox as Scott Summers/Cyclops

Lost featured some of the best talent I have seen. Fox is the only actor who came to mind.



Rachael Taylor as Emma Frost

She is incredibly attractive and fits this part!



Eion Bailey as Logan/Wolverine

I have discovered the perfect Wolverine! I mean look at that picture! It would be awesome! He's also listed at 5' 10," so he'd be short! If you've ever seen "Fight Club," he beats some guy up and he's pretty ripped--if he worked on it he could be huge!



Jared Leto as Remy LeBeau/Gambit

Just look at that picture! He looks perfect for the role and he's a great actor!



Owain Yeoman as Piotr Rasputin/Colossus (Thanks to SUP3R for the idea)

This was probably the hardest to cast! but i think Yeoman looks the part and if he worked out more he could get huge!



Scout Taylor-Compton as Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat

I think she's gorgeous and she'd fit this part perfectly!



Liam Neeson as the voice of Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast

Now I don't know if I was the only one who HATED "X3" and their CRAPPY Beast! The lamest Beast that could have been brought to the screen. In my reboot idea, Beast would be a bulky man in a big suit covered in blue fur and CGI a feline face on him! Then have Neeson voice him and BAM! Beast.



Terry O'Quinn as Professor Charles Xavier

Perfect casting here



Gary Oldman as Dr. Bolivar Trask

Oldman rules! He could play a suave guy that goes crazy super well!



Ashley Greene as Anna Marie/Rogue

This picture says it all!



Kristen Kreuk as Jubilation Lee

She's part Asian and she's hot! ha ha she looks the part!

I may also update with the story if anyone wants it! Let me know what you think!

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Retardo
Retardo - 5/11/2011, 2:07 AM
Eion Bailey as Logan? It could work, nice stuff! Pretty sweet fan cast, not 2 sure about Rachel Taylor as Emma though, always pictured her as Kitty Pryde...
Hellsing
Hellsing - 5/11/2011, 2:58 AM
Boreanaz is shorter than Fox so he can't play Colossus and your Jubilee pick is puzzling, Jubilee's meant to be the youngest yet you picked an actress who's older than your rogue pick. Not sure about the villain of the story although Oldmans perfect for the role but besides that a pretty decent cast. But change your colossus and jubilee picks.
Woodinator
Woodinator - 5/11/2011, 9:13 AM
BY FAR the best x-men cast I've seen in a long time!
BobGarlen
BobGarlen - 5/11/2011, 11:30 AM
No to oldman as Bolivar Trask, He deserves a much better character. I loved X3-Non-Cat Face Beast. Personally i absolutely hate catface beast. I loved the actor who played him and i love his look, its the way beast should be. But i can go with neeson as beast
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/11/2011, 12:36 PM
thanks guys! i appreciate the feedback! although at Hellsing, i don't think Kreuk looks her age at all! i don't think the actual age should matter as long as they fit the part IMO. And at Supes cat face beast is the next stage of beast as he de-evolves if you will. i think it's what beast should look like!
Hellsing
Hellsing - 5/11/2011, 2:04 PM
yeah she doesn't look her age but she doesn't look like the youngest which jubilee is.
superbatspiderman
superbatspiderman - 5/11/2011, 2:22 PM
I like this cast its very original. One question tho. Where is Magnetop and the villains?
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 5/11/2011, 5:44 PM
Where are the other characters like Iceman, Rogue, Pyro, Shadowcat, Colossus, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Juggernaut, etc.
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/11/2011, 8:27 PM
@ two above
this is the roster for the movie and at shadow three of those names are in the cast... did you even read it? hahaha
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 5/13/2011, 3:35 AM
But still it is a great cast nonetheless
DDD
DDD - 5/13/2011, 1:54 PM
You only have a partial list of the
characters here.

Fox is in his 40's, he's too old for
Cyclops.

Rachael Taylor is way too young for Emma.

Boreanaz is way too short for COLOSSUS and
doesn't look like him at all, plus David
is almost 40.

Kristen Kreuk is a little too old for JUBILEE.

Eion Bailey is too pretty boy and
thin-built to play WOLVERINE/LOGAN.
He's more of a pretty leading-man type.

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Compare to this--

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The rest aren't too bad.
I've cast O'Quinn as PROF-X before, myself.
MikeZ
MikeZ - 5/15/2011, 9:34 AM
- Matthew Fox I'm told is a pretty popular choice for Cyclops. I'm going with Tahmoh Penikett, seeing as he has the chiseled jaw and can play leaders.
- Dude, find someone within the age range of your choice for Cyclops to play Emma Frost. Rachael is 27, and Matt is 45. My pick would be Tricia Helfer.
- I'm with DDD that Eion Bailey isn't right for Wolverine. Plus, I read his IMDB profile, and he's 6'. Christian Kane has the martial arts skills and sarcastic douchebaggery from Leverage, and the dramatic depth from Angel.
- Sounds like whoever suggested Jared Leto as Gambit tickled your fancy. I'm into Justin Hartley, because he could parlay his Green Arrow and add a Cajun accent, and boom! Gambit is born.
- Again, you're age difference between two characters is huge. Boreanaz is 40 and MEW is 27. Okay, not big, but Colossus and Kitty Pryde are supposed to be the same age. My picks would be Armie Hammer as Colossus and Joanna Levesque for Kitty.
- Not a bad choice for Beast. Neeson can do American accents with ease.
- Terry O'Quinn would make a bad-ass Prof. X.
- Interesting pick for Bolivar.
- What about Amber Heard for Rogue? I saw Drive Angry, and she was practically playing the character.
- Kreuk is way too old for Jubilee. She's an excellent Ultimate Wasp, however. My choice would be Brenda Song.

Overall, great cast. Though some of the characters never appeared in Astonishing X-Men - Prof. X, Gambit, Bolivar Trask, Rogue, and Jubilee.
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/16/2011, 8:30 PM
@ DDD well these were the only casting picks i made for the movie, not all the characters would be in it.

i just don't get why the actors TRUE age matters. these are all actors who do not look there age. Boreanaz as Colossus was a stretch i couldn't find anyone who could play him well but SUP3R just made an X-Men fan cast and i'm liking his pick.

@ RoadDog i actually was the one who made that Gambit picture haha i've never seen anyone pick him as far as i know. but thanks i appreciate the feedback. and the name of the movie wouldn't be based off the Astonishing X-Men comic, per se, i just used the name for the reboot
HaroldOfGalactus
HaroldOfGalactus - 5/24/2011, 5:35 AM
While normally I agree with DDD's casting picks, I gotta stand by smokahontas.

Christian Kane? really? why is he such a popular choice? You say Eion is too thin and pretty boy-ish to play Wolverine. Have you seen Just Married? Yeah, that douche-bag ex of miss Murphy's...... That's who you want for freakin Wolverine?
Lewis25
Lewis25 - 5/24/2011, 10:25 AM
Mellissa George for Emma Frost, Christian Kane for wolverine,Brenda Song for Jubilee, Gary Sinise for Prof X.
I love Jared Leto as Gambit.
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/24/2011, 1:58 PM
@ Harold i know, Christian Kane looks like a mary haha he just really really bothers me and i don't think he's a good actor at all

@ Lewis thanks man! Leto would own Gambit

@ ncreb haha i completely agree. wrestlers can't act worth shit. case in point, the rock haha he's getting better though
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 5/24/2011, 2:44 PM
@ Smokahontas,

Now that I think about it, I really like this fan cast, but the only thing that I would add to it are the characters of Iceman, Pyro, Angel, Storm, Jean Grey, Magneto, etc. in your fan cast, maybe you will add all those characters in the sequel or in sequels fan casts

Now that I really think about it, great cast, 9.5 out of 10, not a total ten, just missing a .5 because of all of those characters you missed but overall great cast
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/24/2011, 6:32 PM
wow thanks Shadow! that means alot!
Lewis25
Lewis25 - 5/24/2011, 7:34 PM
I also want to suggest Keifer Sutherland for Beast, I forgot to add it in my last comment.
nuck82
nuck82 - 5/25/2011, 8:20 AM
i like them all alot, just there ages group is all way off, but owell, still good
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 5/25/2011, 10:29 AM
@ Smokahontas,

Now that I think about it, I really like this fan cast, but the only thing that I would add to it are the characters of Iceman, Pyro, Angel, Storm, Jean Grey, Magneto, etc. in your fan cast, maybe you will add all those characters in the sequel or in sequels fan casts

Smokahontas, are you going to do a sequel fan cast for The Astonishing X-Men?

Because I want to see what you have for us in your sequel fan cast


I just really want you to do a sequel, so I can see this great cast again but with the mutants that I mentioned like Iceman, Rogue, Pyro, Angel, Storm, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Juggernaut, Scarlet Witch daughter of Magneto, Quicksilver son of Magneto, Havok who is Cyclops's little brother, and also Magneto himself
Treebeard
Treebeard - 5/25/2011, 1:05 PM
@ Shadow alright bro, just for you! haha i'll work on it tonight and try to have it up by tomorrow!
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